Grade 5
Unit 1
Short Cycle Review
Colonial
Economy
Colonial
Resources
Geographic
Characteristics
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Thirteen
Colonies
What is Kentucky?
This is not one of the thirteen
colonies: Maryland, Virginia,
New York, or Kentucky
Row 1, Col 1
What is fur?
The major export of
the New England colonies.
1,2
Who is the miller?
The human resource that
grinds the farmers’ wheat,
oats, rye, or corn into flour or meal.
1,3
What are plantations?
Large farms in the Southern
Colonies where tobacco
and cotton were grown.
1,4
What is North America?
All thirteen colonies are
located on the Atlantic Coast
of this continent.
2,1
What are the Middle Colonies?
The economies of these colonies
revolved around iron making,
crafts, wheat farming, and
mixed farming.
2,2
What is specialization?
When a person does one specific
job such as shipbuilding
or sailmaking.
2,3
What are attacks by wild animals and Indians?
This made life on the
frontier dangerous
for the settlers.
2,4
What is Virginia?
The first colony founded
by the British in 1607.
3,1
What are the Southern Colonies?
The economies of these colonies
revolved around tobacco,
indigo, rice, and mixed farming.
3,2
What is a hammer?
This is a capital resources used by
a blacksmith.
(A)needle
(B)tree
(C)hammer
(D)rice
3,3
What is water (streams)?
This is needed to
power the giant
wheel at a gristmill.
3,4
What is Georgia?
The thirteenth colony
settled in 1732.
4,1
What are the New England Colonies?
The economies of these colonies
revolved around fishing,
whaling, shipbuilding, and barrel
and cask making.
4,2
What is a wheelwright?
The human resource that
makes spinning wheels,
wagons, and carts.
4,3
What is tidewater?
The name given to low
land along the southern coast.
4,4
What is New York?
This colony was once the
Dutch colony called
“New Netherland”.
5,1
What are the “breadbasket” colonies?
The nickname given to the
Middle Colonies because of the
longer growing season, good
soil for growing crops, and
proper rainfall for growing
wheat, corn, and rye.
5,2
Who is a cooper?
The human resource who
made hogsheads to move
tobacco from one place to another.
5,3
What is water such as rivers, bays, or coastlines?
The geographic characteristic
found where colonial
capitals were set up.
5,4