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Middle Colonies

Geography

Question: These colonies had these types of rivers.
Answer: Navigable

Question: These 2 cities had excellent harbors for shipping.
Answer: NYC and Philadelphia

Question: The landscape was described as ________________ and _____________.
Answer: gently rolling hills and plains

Question: Why was the climate so much better for growing crops than in New England?

Answer: right amount of rain, summers were longer.

Question: Name the colonies that made up the Middle Colonies. What was these colonies
nickname and why?
Answer: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey/ Breadbasket Colonies- grew so much grain.

Colonial NYC

Question: What did the people do for fun and relaxation?
Answer: rode sleighs into the country.

Question: What church did the people of NYC belong to? Give me one fact about the people and their religion.
Answer: Church of England/ were not strict about keeping the sabbath

Question: What group of people originally settled NYC? give me 2 facts about how they lived, built their homes,etc. that was different from the people in New England.
Answer: Dutch/ 2 part door, stoop on front of house,colored bricks, houses tall and narrow, threw garbage in the streets

Question: What are some important ways that the women of NYC were very different from those of New England?
Answer: wore multiplerings and earrings with large stones/ wore colorful dresses

Question: What source of power was used in NYC to grind grain and cut wood?
What was used in New England?
Answer: windmills
watermills

Pennsylvania

Question: Who began this colony?
Answer: W Penn

Question: What important city was located in this colony?
Answer: Philadelphia

Question: What does the word Philadelphia mean?
Answer: City of Brotherly Love

Question: What are 4 important beliefs that Quakers had?
Answer: Did not believe in war, slavery, wearing jewelry,
Believed in helping the poor and widows and orphans all should be treated equally, a plain and simple way of living

Question: What does the word Pennsylvania mean?
Answer: Penns Woods

Farm Life

Question: What was the main crop grown on middle colony farms?

Answer: wheat

Question: What are 2 special tools used on a farm? For what are they used?
Answer: answers will vary

Question: Explain the process of clearing fields for crops in the middle colonies.
How was this different than the "English" way?
Answer: Cut down each trees, dig out all the roots
English way- deep cuts around trunk to kill the trees- leave the roots in the ground.

Question: What are 4 important features of a bank barn?
Answer: faced south to protect the animals from cold winds, earth on 3 sides forming a hill, 2 floors- the tope floor could be driven into from the top of the hill,animals on lower level- keeps them warmer.

Question: What are all the steps to harvesting and threshing grain?
Answer: 1. harvest it with scythes
2. bundle it into sheaves
3. thresh it: a. spread sheaves on floor of loft
b. beat them to separate grains from stalks[straw]- gather straw for animals
c. winnow it- separate the chaff- hard outer shell from the seed

Indentured Servants

Question: What is good about being an indentured servant?
Answer: at the end of your years of service you are free to start your life in America.

Question: Why did so many people come to America as indentured servants? Be specific and give 2 different reasons
Answer: They could not afford the ship's passage- expensive and there were no opportunities for them back in England.

Question: What were some disadvantages to being an indentured servant- give me 3.
Answer: treated cruelly, barely fed and clothed, poor living conditions- sleeping, worked many hours each day

Question: How is Herr Mittledorf's treatment of Thomas Ellison very different than most people who signed a contract with an indentured servant? Be specific
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