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Review questions from Chapter 3: Expansion and Establishment

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Two ways population increased in the colonies

Great Migration and natural increase

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a large wave of immigrants from Europe to America during America's early years

Great Migration

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Name three groups of people who colonized America.

English, Scots-Irish, Germans, Dutch, Swedes, French Huguenots, and Africans

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What was the second largest group of immigrants to colonize America?

Scots-Irish

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What is the largest group of people to colonize America?

English

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What group of immigrants was encouraged by William Penn to settle first in Pennsylvania?

Germans

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The smaller groups of immigrants

Dutch, Swedes, and French Huguenots

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What group of immigrants mostly came over as slaves?

Africans

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an underdeveloped area at the edge of settled areas

frontier

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a covered mode of transportation that became popular for wilderness trails

Conestoga wagons

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a natural passage in the mountains; also called the Wilderness Road

Cumberland Gap

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farmers who raised just enough crops and livestock to provide for their families

subsistence farmers

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Name three factors that influenced the economies of the early settlers.

climate, geography, and resources

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The geography of the New England colonies

hilly with thin, rocky soil

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The geography of the middle colonies

many rivers, hills, and fertile plains with rich soil

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The geography of the southern colonies

large fields of farmland and wide coastal plains

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