13 Colonies QuickCheck

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This is a quick matching activity on the 13 Colonies and the characteristics of the NE, Middle, and Southern regions.
Match the information with the correct region of the 13 colonies.
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drag the description to the correct Colony Region

  • ECONOMY: based on enslaved labor; colonies grow mostly tobacco, rice, and indigo.
  • PEOPLE: much more diversity than New England; had many types of cultures and many religions; immigrants from other countries
  • LAND: many thick forests and plantations, people lived very far apart due to plantation lifestyle
  • CLIMATE: excellent growing climate; warm and consistent temperates for most of the year
  • Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
  • PEOPLE: not as many different cultures. Consisted of wealthy planters, poor farmers, and enslaved people from Africa
  • ECONOMY: long winter prevented farming; timber promoted shipbuilding; harbors encouraged trade, the sea promoted cod industry
  • COLONIES: Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware
  • PEOPLE: lacked diversity; most were white, English, very religious, with large families
  • CLIMATE: long winters, colder climate, shorter growing season
  • New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
  • COLONIES: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island
  • COLONIES: Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
  • LAND: rich farmland and coastal lowlands with harbors, bays, and rivers for easy transportation
  • Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut
  • 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
  • CLIMATE: moderate climate, which allowed farming to thrive
  • LAND: thin, rocky soil
    not much flat land A lot of timber (trees)
  • New England Colonies
  • Middle Colonies
  • Southern Colonies