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Unit 3 review sheet

  1. Why did Roanoke Island fail?

They planted tobacco and not food, disease, built in a swamp, people not willing to work

  1. What was the first successful colony in the Americas by the English?

Jamestown

  1. How did Rolfe make Jamestown successful? (it was a plant!)

Tobacco

  1. Why were debtors welcomed into the colonies?

The prisons in England were to full

  1. Why did the Pilgrims come to America?

Seeking Religious freedom

  1. What ship did the Pilgrims travel over on?

Mayflower

  1. What agreement did the Pilgrims live under that said that you live for the better of the colony?

Mayflower Compact

  1. Why did the Puritans come to the Americas?

Religious freedom

  1. What term is known as the “thousands of Puritan’s trip over to the Americas”?

“The Great Migration”

  1. How do Rivers improve trade?

Allows goods to be shipped easily

  1. What colonies had the worst soil for farming?

New England

  1. What or who did the Puritans base their lives, settlement, and government round?

God, Religion and family

  1. What were the 3 major reasons why people came to the Americas?

Gold, free land, religious freedom

  1. In the 1600’s, Puritan society began to change. What happened when people started to become suspicious and fearful?

Salem Witch trials

  1. What did people do when they were accused of being a witch?

Accuse others to take blame off of themselves as being the head witch

  1. How did Puritan religion and traditions allow for the Salem Witch trials to take place

Puritans were suspicious and untrusting of colonists because everyone would sue each other

  1. What made trade so easy for the middle colonies? (New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania) They had the Hudson and the Delaware river to move goods throughout the colony
  1. How did the Natives help the Pilgrims become better farmers?

They taught them to burry fish remains so the soil would be better for farming

  1. How was the middle and southern colonies relationship with natives different from New England colonies?

New England Colonists had better relationships with Natives then southern colonies. The south was enslaving natives to work the plantations

  1. What type of goods did the southern colonies produce?

Cotton, tobacco, indigo, rice

  1. What religions were accepted in the Georgia colony?

All were welcome

  1. Name the New England Colonies

Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut

  1. Name the middle colonies

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware

  1. Name the Southern colonies.

Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virgina, Maryland

  1. Name the southern colonies
  2. Why would Native population decline in the New England Colonies?

Disease & enslavement

Color each of the sets of colonies a different color to distinguish where they are different.

  1. Name 2 colonies that produced tobacco?

North Carolina, Virginia

  1. Name 3 things the New England Colonies are known for?

Dried fish, Whale oil, lumber, beef,

  1. Name two types of Commerce in the Middle colonies.

Whale oil, lumber, deer skin

  1. What was the cash crop grown on the plantation?

Tobacco

  1. Explain how a plantation was self sufficient

They produced their own food, had a school, shoe maker, tanner all the things that would be needed could be produced within the colony. 7