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First Colonies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What early colonial settlers left England or Europe to come to the Americas to start new colonies? | Pilgrims, Puritans, & Dutch |
| What were the three regions the English occupied in N. America? | (New England) Northern, Mid-Atlanta, & the South |
| What were the main trades in the North (New England Colonies)? | Ship making, Fishing, Whaling, and Ship Yard Work |
| What were the two main trades in the Middle Colonies? | Wheat and Mining Iron |
| In the South, what were the five main cash crops that were grown for businesses? | Tobacco, sugar, cotton, rice and indigo |
| What did the Dutch colonies started in the 1650s? | A colony and trading post |
| What country captured the Dutch colony and renamed it New York? | England |
| What was the name of the two proprietors that later created the area of New Jersey? | George Carteret & John Berkley |
| William Penn started a colony for the Quakers, what did he called it? | Pennsylvania |
| What was another colony that was created by other Quakers from Pennsylvania? | Delaware |
| The King of England gave who a part of Virginia in 1663? | Lord Baltimore |
| What did Lord Baltimore called the area that was given to him by the King of England? | Maryland |
| What was the main religion that was taught in Maryland? | The Catholic Religion |
| By 1663, what new colony was created in the Americas? | Carolina |
| What happened to the colony of Carolina in 1729? | It split into two parts-North and South Carolina |
| What were the reasons why the Carolina colony split into two parts? | Its distance & its trade wealth |
| What was the last new colony was created in America in 1732? | Georgia |
| In early colonial times, what did people of England mainly worked as? | Farmers |
| What did farmer traded their crops mostly for? | Tools, salt, guns, & gun powder |
| Since money didn’t existed in the colonies from farmers in North America, what trading idea was used to trade for goods they needed? | Bartering |
| What is bartering? | The form of trading goods for other goods for needs or personal use |
| What were jobs mainly based in the colonies? | Land or sea jobs |
| What were the “Land” jobs in the colonial colonies? | Farms, Construction, Markets, or Mining |
| What were the “Sea” jobs in the colonial colonies? | Shipbuilding, Fishing, or Whaling |
| What did whalers make whale oil into for trade? | Lamp Oil, Candles, and Perfumes |
| What are exports known as in the colonies? | Products sold to other countries money or trade goods |
| What are imports known as in the colonies? | Products that are bought in from other countries, bad for the country |
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