This is a quick matching activity on the 13 Colonies and the characteristics of the NE, Middle, and Southern regions.
drag the description to the correct Colony Region
COLONIES: Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware
ECONOMY: based on enslaved labor; colonies grow mostly tobacco, rice, and indigo.
PEOPLE: not as many different cultures. Consisted of wealthy planters, poor farmers, and enslaved people from Africa
LAND: many thick forests and plantations, people lived very far apart due to plantation lifestyle
PEOPLE: lacked diversity; most were white, English, very religious, with large families
COLONIES: Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
CLIMATE: excellent growing climate; warm and consistent temperates for most of the year
PEOPLE: much more diversity than New England; had many types of cultures and many religions; immigrants from other countries
ECONOMY: long winter prevented farming; timber promoted shipbuilding; harbors encouraged trade, the sea promoted cod industry
LAND: thin, rocky soil
not much flat land A lot of timber (trees)
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut
COLONIES: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island
LAND: rich farmland and coastal lowlands with harbors, bays, and rivers for easy transportation
CLIMATE: moderate climate, which allowed farming to thrive
CLIMATE: long winters, colder climate, shorter growing season
ECONOMY: farming was big in this region nicknamed the ‘breadbasket colonies’, raising livestock, growing grain, fishing on rivers, and included all types of skilled or unskilled labor
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies