Welcome! The Topic For Today Is…Life in the Colonies

1. Welcome! The Topic For Today Is…Life in the Colonies

2. Your Topic

3. Topic 1: 200 • Question: • What were the large farms called that made the Southern Colonies Unique? • Answer • What are plantations. Back

4. Topic 1: 400 • Question: • Which group slaves or indentured servants were cheaper to purchase? • Answer • Indentured servants Back

5. Topic 1: 600 • Question: • What was the weather and soil like in New England? • Answer • Harsh winters and rocky, hilly soil. Back

6. Topic 1: 800 • Question: • Who mainly settled in the Middle colonies? • Answer • People from many countries and cultures Back

7. Topic 1: 1000 • Question: • What was the Mayflower Compact and what did it show about the colonists. • Answer • It was a document signed by the pilgrims coming over on the Mayflower that described the way they would govern themselves, it showed they wanted to govern themselves and solve their own problems. Back

8. Topic 2: 200 • Question: • What is a slave? • Answer • A person taken from Africa or the Caribbean and forced to work on a plantation? Back

9. Topic 2: 400 • Question: • What is a plantation? • Answer • A large farm where cash crops are grown in the South. Back

10. Topic 2: 600 • Question: • What is an indentured servant? • Answer • Someone white who was worked as a slave in the colonies because the slave owner paid their passage from England, usually they worked like 3,5,or 7 years. Back

11. Topic 2: 800 • Question: • Who made most of the laws in each colony? • Answer • An elected assembly. Back

12. Topic 2: 1000 • Question: • What are the main reasons the colonies were founded. • Answer • People were seeking religious freedom and some were seeking ways to make more money. Back

13. Topic 3: 200 • Question: • Who was the founder of Pennsylvania • Answer • William Penn Back

14. Topic 3: 400 • Question: • Who were the Puritans and in which colony did they mainly settle? • Answer • People seeking religious freedom and Massachusetts. Back

15. Topic 3: 600 • Question: • Who were the Quakers and where did they settle. • Answer • Pacifists who settled in Pennsylvania. Back

16. Topic 3: 800 • Question: • Which colony did William Bradford and John Winthrop found? • Answer • Massachusetts. Back

17. Topic 3: 1000 • Question: • Which colony was found by George II and James Edward Oglethorpe and was a refuge for debtors and poor people. • Answer • Georgia. Back

18. Topic 4: 200 • Question: • What are the three regions of the 13 colonies? • Answer • New England, Middle, and Southern. Back

19. Topic 4: 400 • Question: • What are the 4 middle colonies? • Answer • New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware. Back

20. Topic 4: 600 • Question: • What are the 5 southern colonies? • Answer • Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia Back

21. Topic 4: 800 • Question: • What are the 4 New England Colonies? • Answer • New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Back

22. Topic 4: 1000 • Question: • What are the two major cities South Carolina and Georgia respectively? • Answer • Charles Town and Savannah Back

23. Topic 5: 200 • Question: • What is Climate and how can it affect an area? • Answer • Climate is the weather the temperature and if a climate is cold you can’t grow food? Back

24. Topic 5: 400 • Question: • What are natural resources and how can they affect an area? • Answer • They are things found in nature, for example if you have a lot of trees then you can lumber for money. Back

25. Topic 5: 600 • Question: • How did geography effect the development of the southern colonies? • Answer • The south had warm long summers and good soil so people grew crops on plantations because the farm were so large slave labor was needed. Back

26. Topic 5: 800 • Question: • How did geography effect the development of the middle colonies? • Answer • Because sometimes the weather was good and the soil in some areas like New Jersey crops could be grown, but also because of natural resources like trees people could lumber all year around or when the weather got poor. Back

27. Topic 5: 1000 • Question: • How did geography effect the development of the New England Colonies? • Answer • Because the soil was poor and also the weather at times people did not grow cash crops instead they focused on other natural resources like trees, for ship building and the ocean for fishing. Back

28. Bonus Question: 5000 pts. • Question: • What country controlled the 13 colonies? Answer • … • England. Back

29. Daily Double Question: Which colony did William Bradford and John Winthrop found?

30. Daily Double How did geography effect the development of the southern colonies?