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Middle and Southern Colonies
Chapter 7 - New SS Book
Terry SamsPiedmont Elementary
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A (an) _________is a person who does hard
physical word.
laborer
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A person skilled at making something by hand is a (an)_______.
artisan
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What were differences between North Carolina
and South Carolina?
South Carolina had better ports and farmland so it
grew more quickly.
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Cash crops such as ______ and _____ were
grown to be sold for cash.
Tobacco and indigo
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The _______believed that all people should be able
to worship freely.
Quakers
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The _____ and _____Rivers helped make Philadelphia a center of trade and the largest city in the colonies.
Delaware and Schuykill
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James, Duke of York, became the ____of New
Netherland.
proprietor
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Who founded Maryland as a refuge for Catholics?
Lord Baltimore
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What two cities did people usually migrate to when they arrived in the
Middle Colonies?
New York and Philadelphia
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What are some clues you might read if you are
reading an autobiography?
The author uses the word “I” or “me”.
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What attracted many people to the middle
colonies?
Religious freedom
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A (an) ______________is someone that is chosen
to speak and act for others.
representative
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A (an) _____ is an official agreement between nations or groups.
treaty
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How did Philadelphia’s location help it grow to be
the biggest city in the British colonies?
The city became a trade center because
of its good harbor.
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Who founded Pennsylvania and why?
William Penn for religious freedom.
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What famous American started the first lending
library?
Benjamin Franklin
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What did many colonial children do to learn
useful skills?
They became apprentices .
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Virginia’s legislature was called the _______. This group met to write and
change laws.
The House of Burgesses
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______was an important cash crop in the Southern colonies. It was bought to be made into a blue
dye.
indigo
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What was the colony of New York originally
named?
New Netherland
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How did the colonist in New York and new Jersey take part in government?
They elected representatives to
assemblies.
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What popular book did Benjamin Franklin writethat contained stories,
jokes, and sayings?
Poor Richard’s Almanack
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Today people still have the __________ freedoms
that were practiced in Pennsylvania.
religious
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People in the Middle Colonies came from many_______ and _______.
Cultures and religions
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Why did proprietors allow religious tolerance?
It attracted Colonists to the area
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In a ________, the people, not the government,
decide what to produce?
Free market economy
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Someone who studies with a master to learn a
skill or business?
apprentice
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A large farm on which crops are raised by
workers who live on the land is a _______
plantation
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A place protected from threat or harm is a______.
refuge
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A person that owes money is called a ______.
debtor
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What was the largest and wealthiest English colony
that also had the first elected governor?
Virginia
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A (an) _____is a group of people with the power to make and change laws.
legislature
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What crops make planters wealthy?
Tobacco and rice
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Who founded the colony of Georgia as a place for
poor people and debtors?
James Oglethorpe
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A ______was a person who owned and
controlled the land in a colony.
proprietor
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A (an) _______ is a person who watches and
directs the work of others..
overseer
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A (an) ______was an African American
religious folk song.
spiritual
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What did slaves do to survive the hardships of
slavery?
Built a close community, tuned to Christianity, combined
African and American customs, religion, and music
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That’s All!
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