English Colonies of Early America

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  1. 3. Along with basic farming, the Middle Colonies had grasslands, good for raising these
  2. 5. Something grown for plantations to sell to make money
  3. 6. A word to describe how the Middle Colonies had a mixture of people and languages from all over Europe
  4. 7. New England colonies sold Native Americans as slaves to islands in this region
  5. 9. All three colonial regions had these people for labor
  6. 13. Large, family owned farms in southern colonies
  7. 14. These servants had contracts, usually 7 years, to serve someone for a trip to the New World
  8. 16. The main crop of grains grown and traded in the Middle Colonies
  9. 17. This purple plant was used for dyeing clothing
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  1. 1. This group of peaceful Christians fled the New England colonies to Pennsylvania
  2. 2. A word used to describe the rich soil in the south
  3. 4. This religious group started the New England colonies after seeking religious freedom away from England
  4. 8. This job requires skilled workers to turn hot metal into goods to be used or sold
  5. 10. First permanent English settlement in the New World
  6. 11. Along with fishing, New England colonies relied on this practice of hunting large, oceanic mammals
  7. 12. The name for skilled workers that made or built things to use or sell for money
  8. 15. This group of Europeans were the first settlers of New Amsterdam, later called New York