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Colonial Regions Characteristics

This table summarizes characteristics of two colonial regions during the late seventeenth century.

Question 1

Short answer

Why did the New England colonies fish and build ships? What cash crop did the middle colonies have?

Group 2

How did these characteristics influence life in the colonies?

Question 2a

Multiple choice

How did these characteristics influence life in the colonies?

  • The New England colonies supported financial growth through high-paying industrial work.

  • The Southern colonies supported the plantation production of cash crops because of long growing seasons.

  • The Southern colonies developed large urban centers in order to support increasing manufacturing businesses.

  • The New England colonies developed large rural populations in order to support increasing agricultural production.

Question 2b

Multiple choice

Which reasons correctly replace the numbers in this table?

  • (1) To gain religious freedom (2) To provide military defense

  • (1) To increase business profits (2) To escape religious persecution

  • (1) To provide military defense (2) To help benefit the poor

  • (1) To increase business profits (2) To provide a place for criminals

Question 2c

Multiple choice

An immigrant sails to North America in the early 1700s hoping to start a tobacco farm. He has done some research on the best environment for tobacco farming. Where is the immigrant likely to

  • Massachusetts

  • Virginia

  • Rhode Island

  • Pennsylvania

Question 2d

Multiple choice

Which geographic feature allowed the Mid-Atlantic colonies to have a longer growing season than the New England colonies?

  • Thick forests

  • Navigable rivers

  • Flat land with rocky soil

  • Mild climate

Question 2e

Multiple choice

Which effects correctly replace the numbers in this cause and effect diagram

  • (1) Used slave labor (2) Used Chinese laborers

  • (1) Exported dried fish (2) Exported agricultural goods

  • (1) Established plantations (2) Established textile factories

  • (1) Imported lumber (2) Imported cattle

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