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Compare the New England, Middle and Southern colonies on economy, labor, society and religion, and trace the Atlantic trade that linked them.
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Which colonial region did the colony highlighted on the map belong to?

The area highlighted on the map was granted to a single proprietor in 1681. Which colony is it?

Tidewater planters in the colony highlighted on the map built their export trade on one crop above all others. Which crop was it?

Which pair of crops did planters grow for export in the coastal lowcountry of the colony highlighted on the map?

England seized the colony highlighted on the map from the Dutch in 1664 and renamed it. Which colony is highlighted?

The colony highlighted on the map was chartered in 1632 to Lord Baltimore as a place where English Catholics could settle safely. Which colony is it?

A region shipped cod, whale oil, timber and finished vessels, and most of its farms produced little beyond what the family working them needed. Which region is described?
Surpluses of wheat, rye and barreled flour moved out through Philadelphia and New York in such quantity that the region earned the nickname 'the breadbasket'. Which region?
Planters worked large riverside estates with enslaved Africans and loaded tobacco for England from private wharves on their own land. This describes the economy of which region?
Grain farms in one region were worked by the farm family together with hired hands, tenants and indentured servants, and held a far smaller enslaved population than the plantation colonies. Which region?
Flooded coastal fields, embankments and canals for rice, worked by enslaved West Africans whose home societies grew the same crop, anchored the export economy of which region?
Merchants in Boston, Salem and Newport built and owned the vessels that carried other colonies' produce, and shipbuilding, distilling and freight paid better there than the soil ever did. Which region?
Iron forges, gristmills, and a port trade in flour and barrel staves bound for the West Indies grew up in which region?
Naval stores - the tar, pitch and turpentine drawn from pine forests to waterproof rigging and hulls - were shipped to the Royal Navy from which region?
Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey drew Quakers, German Lutherans, Dutch Reformed and Scots-Irish Presbyterians, and no single church was established across the region. How did New England differ?
New England settlers were granted land as whole towns and built homes around a common and a meetinghouse, while Southern planters took up scattered tracts along rivers. What best explains the Southern pattern?
In Massachusetts, freeholders gathered in town meetings to settle local business. In Virginia, the county court and the parish vestry, filled by leading planters, did that work. What difference does this show?
Which statement accurately compares the settlers of early New England with those of the early Chesapeake?
The Middle Colonies had one established church, supported by taxes, across the whole region.
The Great Awakening revivals of the 1730s and 1740s, carried through the colonies by preachers such as George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards, produced which common result?
Parliament required colonial cargo to travel in English or colonial ships and ordered enumerated goods such as tobacco, sugar and indigo to be landed first at an English port. These rules put which economic theory into practice?
A ship clearing a New England port for the West African coast in the mid-1700s most often carried which cargo to trade there?
In the Atlantic trading system, the middle passage was the leg on which what happened?
In 1733 Parliament laid a heavy duty on molasses brought into the colonies from the French and Dutch West Indies. What did New England merchants mostly do about it?
Virginia granted 50 acres of land to anyone who paid the passage of a settler to the colony. What did this headright policy encourage?
In the later 1600s the flow of English indentured servants to the Chesapeake fell off while enslaved Africans became more available and cheaper to buy. What followed in the tobacco colonies?
The Navigation Acts required certain colonial products to be landed in England before they could be sold on to buyers elsewhere in Europe.
Which colony did Roger Williams begin in 1636 after Massachusetts Bay banished him, and run without any established church?
James Oglethorpe and his fellow trustees took a charter in 1732 for a colony meant to give England's poor debtors a fresh start and to shield the Carolinas from Spanish Florida. Which colony was it?
Which colony began in 1630 when John Winthrop led a fleet of Puritans across the Atlantic to build a commonwealth whose voters were members of its churches?
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