Colonial Products

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Outline Map Activities
Chapter
4
The Colonies Develop
Colonial Products
A. Use the maps on textbook pages 94, 99, and 104 to locate where the following
products and activities could be found in colonial America. Then label them and
the colonies on the outline map on the back of this page. (Through shading, the
page already identifies the areas where cattle, grain, tobacco, rice, and indigo
could be found. You, however, should use symbols or colored markers to show
where the products listed below were found. Then include them in the map’s key.)
Products
fish
iron
naval store
pigs
shipbuilding
timber
whaling
New England Colonies:
Maine—part of
Massachusetts
(Me. [Mass.])
New Hampshire (N.H.)
Massachusetts (Mass.)
Rhode Island (R.I.)
Connecticut (Conn.)
Colonies
Middle Colonies:
New York (N.Y.)
Pennsylvania (Penn.)
New Jersey (N.J.)
Delaware (Del.)
Southern Colonies:
Maryland (Md.)
Virginia (Va.)
North Carolina (N.C.)
South Carolina (S.C.)
Georgia (Ga.)
B. After labeling the map, use it to answer the following questions.
1. Which colonies produced rice and indigo?
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2. Which colonies produced tobacco?
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3. What goods and activities were found in Pennsylvania?
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4. What goods and activities were found only in the New England colonies?
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5. What product did North Carolina produce that South Carolina did not?
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6. What product was found in five states?
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7. What two products were the most widespread in the colonies?
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8. What product did Massachusetts gain by its possession of Maine?
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Colonial
Products
Cattle and grain
Tobacco
Rice and indigo