Ch 6 Middle & Southern Colonies Study Guide
Write your answers on a piece of notebook paper.
1. What affects climate? (CH 1 L1)
2. What did the Native Americans of the Northwest do for food in the 1500s? (CH 2 L2)
3. What were important resources of the Native Americans of the Northwest? (CH 2 L2)
4. Why did American Indians living in the Southwest use irrigation? (CH 2 L 3)
5. How did horses change the lives of the Plains Indians? (Ch 2 L 4)
6. Why did Prince Henry of Portugal start a school of navigation? (CH 3 L 2)
7. Why did Spanish settlers import enslaved Africans? (CH 3 L 5)
8. Why did England want a settlement in North America? (CH 4 L 2)
9. What did the first settlers to Jamestown do we then first arrived? (CH 4 L 2)
10. Why did the Pilgrims and Puritans settle in New England? (CH 4 L 3)
11. What helped the colonists in the Middle Colonies send crops to nearby towns? (CH 5 L1)
12. Which region of British colonies had the best climate and land for farming? (CH 5 L 1)
13. What were the Southern Colonies? (CH 5 L 1)
14. Why was Roger Williams banished? (Ch 5 L 2)
15. What was a key resource for New England colonies? (CH 5 L 3)
16. What three continents were part of the Triangular Trade Route? (CH 5 L 3)
17. Describe the government of New York and New Jersey. (CH 6 L 1)
18. Why did William Penn found Pennsylvania? (CH 6 L 1)
19. How did Penn get the land for Pennsylvania? (CH 6 L 1)
20. Why did the Middle Colonies become a place where many different people lived? (CH 6 L 2)
21. How did the proprietors act toward businesses in the Middle Colonies? (CH 6 L 2)
22. How did most colonists earn a living in the Middle Colonies? (CH 6 L 2)
23. What does a laborer do? (CH 6 L 2)
24. Why was Georgia founded? (CH 6 L 3)
25. Which colony was the first to allow an elected legislature? (CH 6 L 3)
26. What were the representatives in the Virginia legislature called? (CH 6 L 3)
27. On what was the economy of the Southern Colonies based? (CH 6 L 4)
28. How did most of the colonists in the Southern Colonies earn a living? (CH 6 L 4)
29. Which colonies grew rice and indigo as their main crops? (CH 6 L 4)
30. Describe a slave’s life. (CH 6 L 4)
31. What was a spiritual? (Ch 6 L 4)
32. What knowledge did enslaved Africans bring to South Carolina and Georgia? (CH 6 L 4)
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