13 Colonies

13 Colonies

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Tania Salgado

Social Studies

2nd - 4th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is an example of a natural resource?

capital

land

entrepreneurship

labor

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is an example of a human resource?

physical labor

a new business

machines

factories

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is a capital resource?

products made from nature

items used to make goods and provide services

starting a business

labor used to provide service

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which is an example of entrepreneurship?

building houses

working in a factory

mining

starting a new business

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which colonial region had the following economic activities: fishing, shipping, and farming?

New England colonies

Middle colonies or Mid-Atlantic colonies

Southern colonies

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why was whaling an economic activity in the New England colonies?

The New England colonies were located near the Atlantic ocean, which is home to a lot of whales.

Whaling was more fun than farming.

New England colonists were more brave for whaling than the Middle and Southern colonists.

They could only eat whale meat.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why did the New England colonies depended on fishing and whaling instead of farming?

Farming was too much work.

Farming was not possible because of the rocky soil and cold weather.

Fishing and whaling earned them more money.

No one knew how to farm.

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why were colonists able to survive in the new land (America)?

They brought all the necessary items to survive.

They read about it in books.

They already had farms there.

They learned from the American Indians and took on their lifestyle.

9.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A ______________ is a person who is skilled in trade and creates things with their hands.

An artist

An artisan

A poet

10.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following tasks would MOST LIKELY have been performed by an artisan in colonial America?

smithing iron to create farm and cooking tools

harvesting crops to sell food to the community

chopping down trees to use as a fuel source

gathering and milling wheat to make flour for bread

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