13 Colonies Study GuidePARTS 1-3, VISUAL INFORMATION ANSWERS, PLUS VOCABULARY, AND OVERVIEW QUESTIONS

The Colonial Period

New Peoples

1.What years was the Colonial Period?1607-1776

2.From what 8 countries did most settlers who came to America during this time travel? England, Netherlands,

Sweden, Germany, France (French Huguenots),

Spain, Italy, and Portugal

3. List 3 reasons from the text of why people left their home country to come to America?

to escape the path of war, avoid poverty, and absentee landlordism

4. What was the population America at the end of the Colonial Period?

2.5 million

New England

5.What part of the United States were the New England colonies?

Northeast

6. List 4 ways the people in New England made a living.

grain and sawmills,

shipbuilding, trade, cod industry

(fishing)

7. Where did most settlers live in New England?

in villages and towns around the harbors.

8. Why was the Massachusetts Bay Colony able to lay the foundation or the beginning of trade?because they built

their own vessels (ships) and sailed them to parts all over the world

9. What things started making New England shippers a lot of money?

Rum and slaves

10. What was the triangular trade?merchants and shippers

would purchase slaves off of the coast of Africa for New

England rum, then sell slaves in the West Indies where they would buy molasses to bring home for sale to the local rum producers.

The Middle Colonies

1. List 3 ways the Middle Colonies were different from the New England colonies.society in the Middle

Colonies was far morevaried, cosmopolitan, andtolerant than the New

England 

2. Who helped make Pennsylvania and Delaware successful colonies?

William Penn

3. What was the heart of Pennsylvania?

Philadelphia

4. Describe Philadelphia.broad tree-shaped

streets,substantial brick

and stonehouses and busy

docks

5. What religion were most people in Philadelphia?

Quakers 

6. From what country did the most successful farmers in Pennsylvania migrate? Germany

7. What are the cottage industries?

weaving, shoemaking, cabinet making, and other crafts

8. Why do you think they are called that (cottage industries)?

because these things

could be done in their

home or cottage

9. What immigrants settled in Pennsylvania that were very poor, hated the English and didn’t trust any governments?

Scots-Irish (Scottish-Irish)

10. Where did this group settle and how did they survive?the back-country and theysurvived primarily by hunting and subsistence farming

 

11. What state had the largest variety of immigrants?

New York

12. List the countries from where people were immigrants.Netherlands (Dutch),France (French), Denmark(Danes), Norway (Norwegians),Sweden (Swedes/Swedish),England (English), Scotland(Scots/Scottish), Ireland (Irish),Germany (Germans), Poland (Poles/Polish), Bohemia (Bohemians),Portugal (Portugese), and Italy (Italians)

13. Who had the largest influence on New York even after their country lost the colony of New York to the British?

The Dutch

The Southern Colonies

1. List the Southern Colonies.

Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, and Georgia

2. What 2 groups made up the economic and social structure in Maryland and Virginia?

great planters and

yeoman farmers

3. Who helped the planters of the tidewater region?

slaves through slave labor

4. Describe the planters of the tidewater region.

Held most of political power and best land, built great houses, adopted aristocratic way of life

5. What is a yeoman farmer? He works smaller tracts of land

6. About what did the yeoman farmers warn the planters?Not to encroach too far

upon the rights of free men

7. Where was the most successful port in the Southern Colonies?

Charleston, South Carolina

8. List 3 things that grew in North and South Carolina that made these colonies very rich.

Rice, indigo, forest (trees)

9. Where did the population grow in the Southern Colonies?

North and South Carolina

10. What are 3 reasons that people moved inland away from the larger coastal cities? (1)Germans/Scots-Irish were unwilling to live in the

original tidewater settlements, (2) people could not secure fertile land or (3) exhausted the lands they held

12. Where did Frontier families build? On the edge of

Indian country 13. What did they grow?

Maize and wheat

Visual Information Packet Questions/Answers

1. The 13 colonies were a part of what continent?

North America

2. They are a part of what present day country?

United States of America

3. Which colony is farthest north?

New Hampshire

4. Which colony is farthest south? Georgia

5. The colonies were bound by the Appalachian Mountains on the west. What ocean bordered the colonies on the east? Atlantic

6. The oldest colony was Virginia (founded in 1607). Which colony was just south of Virginia?

North Carolina

7. The colony of Virginia contained what are now the states of Virginia and West Virginia. What colony bordered Virginia to the northeast?

Maryland

8. In which section of the 13 Colonies is Massachusetts located?

Northern/New England

9. Which colony was founded last?

Georgia 10. What colony was founded

second? New York

 

1.Persecuted - hostility and ill-

treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs.

13 Colonies Vocab

13 Colonies Vocab

2. Oppression – to keep down by the cruel or unjust use of power; rule harshly

3. Refugee – a person who flees from a country to seek shelter or safety elsewhere

4. Commerce – buying/selling of goods especially when done on a large scale between cities, states or countries

5. Prosperity – good fortune, wealth or success

6. Export – carry or send goods to another country

13 Colonies Vocab Continued

7. Commodity – anything bought or sold

8. Substantial – large in amount, size or number

9. Creed – a statement of the basic belief of a religion

10.Indigent – suffering from extreme poverty

11.Subsistence – minimum food or shelter needed to support life

13 Colonies Vocab

Continued12.Predominantly – a position of power, authority or

influence over others

13.Revenue – an amount of money regularly coming in

14.Oligarchy – a form of government where all power is held by a few prominent people

15.Interior – situated well inland from the coast or border

16.Tracts – an expanse or area of land, water, etc.

The Colonial Period 1607-1776 Overview Questions and Answers

1. Up until 1680 most of the settlers who came to the new world were from what country?

____England____2. List 3 reasons that that many people left

continental Europe and came to the New World.

Escape the path of war, avoid poverty, and absentee landlordism

3. What was the population of the New World by 1690? ¼ of a million__

4. What was the population by 1775? _2.5 million______

5. Why was it difficult to farm in New England? Thin, stony soil, relatively little level

land, and long winters

6. List 4 other ways that the people of New England made money.

Grain mills and sawmills,

shipbuilding, trade, and the cod

industry

7. Where did the people of New England live and why did they live there?

In villages and towns around the harbors because may New Englanders carried on some

kind of trade or business

8. What was being built in the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

vessels (ships)Why was this important? This laid the foundation

for a trade that was to grow

rapidly

9. What was the triangular trade?merchants and shippers

would purchase slaves off of the coast of Africa for New England rum, then sell slaves in the West Indies where they would buy molasses to bring home for sale to the local rum producers.

10.Why was it considered “unsavory”?

it was considered unsavory because it was morally wrong to purchase/own

another person

11. The people in the Middle Colonies were more _________ than in New England.tolerant

12. Who guided Pennsylvania and was the reason it ran smoothly and grew rapidly? William Penn

13. What was Philadelphia? it was the heart of Pennsylvania

14. What made it one of the most thriving cities in the colonies? Their talent for successful

business enterprise

15.Who were the best farmers? Germans

16.What cottage industries were important in the Middle Colonies? weaving, shoemaking, cabinetmaking and other crafts

17. Who moved into the Middle Colonies in the early 18th century? Scots-Irish

18. Describe the Scots-Irish. Tell about them, where they settled and how they survived they settled in the back country of Pennsylvania and survived by hunting and subsistence farming

19. What colony was a great example of the many different nationalities that moved to the New World? New York List the other nationalities that settled along the Hudson River. Dutch, French, Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, English,

Scots, Irish, Germans, Poles, Bohemians, Portuguese, and Italians

20. What city in New York became busy with all kinds of people and businesses? Manhattan

21. How did the Southern Colonies make their money? lumber, tar, resin (from the

long leaf pine tree), rice, indigo, maize, and wheat

22. Describe the farmers of the Tidewater region.

they were supported by slave labor, held most of the political power and the best land, built great houses, adopted an

aristocratic (power in the hands of a few) way of life

23. __________________________ became the leading port and trading center in the

South.Charleston, South Carolina

24. What did the settlers there learn to do? to combine agriculture and

commerce

25. Which colony only grew one crop?

Virginia

26. What did North and South Carolina grow and export?

rice, indigo, and forests/trees

27. Who moved inland and give the reasons why? Germans and Scots-Irish moved

inland because they were unwilling to live in the original tidewater settlements, they could not secure fertile land along the coast, or they had exhausted the land they held

28. Describe the frontier family. Telling where they lived and about their lives.

they built cabins, cleared tracts in the wilderness, cultivated maize and wheat, the men wore leather known as buckskin, the women wore clothes made of cloth they spun at home, they ate venison (deer), wild turkey, and fish, they had great barbeques, dances, housewarmings for newly married couples, shooting matches, and contests for making quilt blankets