History ( Colonies Different Types: Southern, New England Etc.

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What are the Southern Colonies?

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1) Georgia

2) South Carolina

3) North Carolina

4) Virgina

5) Maryland

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What two components made agriculture boom in the Southern colonies?

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1) Soil and 2) Weather

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Commercial Agriculture

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Animals and plants sold in large scales

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What was the SOUTH'S first cash crop?

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Tobacco

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Cash crop

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crop grown primarily for market or to sell in large quantity

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Tobacco was these two states cash crop. **It boomed it the south but what two colonies still have it today?

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1) Virginia and North Carolina

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What was South Carolina's cash crops?

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1) Indigo 2) Rice 3) Sugarcane

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what does "tobacco was a labor intensive crop"?

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means it was a crop that required many people to plant, care for, and harvest the crop

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Indentured Servants

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white people from Europe that came over and agreed to work on the land for people and for a specific number of years.

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Why did the landowners not like indentured servants?

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They had to pay the cost of transporting the servants and have food and clothing and shelter until the contract was over.

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What two crops didn't grow that well in South Carolina; it still grew but not well?

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1) Sugarcane 2) Rice

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Indigo became the cash crop for what colony/ state?

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South Carolina

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Subsistence farming

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farming only enough crops to feed their own families.

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Subsistence farming crops include?

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corn, rye, potatoes, and beans

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King Charles the second granted what?

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A charter to the Royal African Company to engage in the slave trade

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The first African Americans arrived in Virginia in?

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1619

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Middle Passage

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the journey of the Africans from Africa to the Americas is this because is is the middle leg of the trip of the Triangular Trade Network.

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what are plantations?

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large commerical agriculture estates where many laborers lived on the land and cultivated the cash crops for the landowners

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Slave Code

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1705; a set of laws that formally regulated slavery and defined relationship between slaves and whites.

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Africans were forbidden to do what?

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1) owning property, 2) testify against white person in court, 3) to assemble in large numbers.

**their movements were also regulated

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What were the New England colonies?

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1) Massachusetts

2) Connecticut

3) Rhode Island

4) New Hampshire

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Why did crops not grow well in the NE colonies?

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too cold and the climate and soil were bad

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NE farmers practiced what type of farming?

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Subsistence

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What was the Grand Banks?

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A shallow region in the Atlantic Ocean where the mixing of the warm Gulf Stream and the cold North Atlantic produced an environment for plankton.

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What was plankton?

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a food for many fish and whale in the Grand Banks

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What were the two animals in the fishing industry?

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whale and cod fish

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What were whales sought for?

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1) Blubber and 2) Bones

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What were the blubber and bones used to make?

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The bones were used to make brushes and combs and the blubber was used to make candles and lamps.

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What were barrels used for?

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used to store and ship almost everything

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What was a barrel maker called?

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Cooper

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The fishing industry growing trade created a steady demand for?

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Ships

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The timber was used for three things. What were these three things

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1) Barrel making

2) Ship building

3) Furniture

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Town meetings

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where anyone could attend to meet and express an opinion

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What were the three requirements to vote?

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1) be white

2) Be male

3) own land

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Selectment

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the men chosen to manage a towns government and elected annually.

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Why were the puritans houses close to the churches or meetinghouse.

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So they could never claim distance as an excuse to miss Sunday worship

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What were the middle colonies?

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1) Pennsylvania

2) New York

3) New Jersey

4) Deleware

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The most important crop in the middle colonies was?

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Wheat

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Entrepreneurs

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business people who risked their money by buying land, equipment, and supplies and then selling them to the new immigrants for a profit.

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Capitalists

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people who had money to invest in new businesses

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Mecantilism

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a set of ideas about the world economy and how it works which were popular in the 1600's and 1700's and it was an English idea

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Mercantilists believed to become wealthy and powerful , a country had to what?

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accumulate gold and silver

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Navigation Acts

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1) required all goods imported or exported from the colonies to be carried on English or colonial ships. 2) Also listed specific raw materials ( tobacco, sugar , lumber , cotton, wool, and indigo) that could be sold only to England or other English colonies

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With the Navigation Acts all crews that carried goods had to be what?

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75% British or colonial

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Who wrote "Two Treaties of Government"?

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John Locke