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| What are three reasons the English colonies in America grew at a fast rate |
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colonial women married easy immigration healthy area
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| Whey were New England farms fairly small? |
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| What were two major New England industries? |
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| Ship building and fishing |
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| Where did New England ships sail to carry on trade? |
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| Why were certain trade routes called the triangular routes? |
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Because they formed a triangle |
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| What was the middle passage? |
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| What two seaports became the largest cities in the colonies? |
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New York (City) and Philidelphia |
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| What were four industries of the Middle Colonies? |
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| Carpentary, lumbering,mining, iron making, flower making |
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| What did the diversity of the Middle colonies lead to? |
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Tolerence for different cultres/ religions |
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| What was the main cash crop of Maryland and Virgina? |
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| What was the main cash crop of South Carolina and Georgia? |
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| How did the tide water and backcountry regions differ? |
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Tidewater had more plantations for growing cash crops- backcountry is more for substistence farming |
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| What were the slave codes? |
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| Strict rules that govern behavior punishment |
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| what often happened to families of enslaved africans? |
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| Their family ties were broken |
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| What were some groups that were against slavery? |
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| Puritans, Quakers Mennonites |
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| Group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies |
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| goods that are sold abroad |
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| trading illegally with other nations |
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| producing just enough crops to meet the needs of one's needs |
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| crop that can be easily sold |
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region of hills and forests climbing up towards the appaachinen mountains |
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| bosses hired by plantation owners to keep slaves working hard |
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| region of flat, low lying plains along the southern see coast |
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