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British Colonial Regions

From 1607 to 1733, England established 13 colonies along the Atlantic coastline. Do you knowthe important facts about these early colonies?

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Which colonies are in New England?Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire
Which colonies are the Middle Colonies?New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
Which colonies are the Southern Colonies?Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia
Which colony was started to solve the problem of overcrowded debtors' prisons?Georgia
What colony was started as a haven for Quakers?Pennsylvania
Which is the "City of Brotherly Love"?Philadelphia
In which colonial region would you find shipbuilding,fishing and small family farms?New England
In which region would you find a strong Puritan heritage and town meetings?New England
In what region would you find America's oldest college?Harvard (1636) in Boston, Massachusetts
What colony was settled by the Dutch and featured large waterfront estates run by wealthy patroons?New York
What word means a charter where the person in charge pays a yearly payment to the king in exchange for running the colony?Proprietary
In which region would you find indigo, rice and tobacco grown?Southern colonies
What colony guaranteed the right to worship for Catholics?Maryland
What were the two largest trading centers?New York and Philadelphia
Which colony was begun as New Sweden?Delaware
In which region were large plantations with slave labor?Southern Colonies
Which region offered the greatest degree of ethnic and religious tolerance?Middle Colonies
What was the nickname for the Middle Colonies?The Breadbasket
In which colony were pine products made into naval stores? The nickname for pine workers was Tarheels.North Carolina
What did colonists call the time of adjustment to New World hardships, environment and diseases?The Seasoning

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