Worksheet # 27 Questions Home

Manufacture Temperate Backcountry Mason-Dixon Conestoga Wagon

Iron Ore Triangular Trade Deutsch Appalachians Smith

1) Term for wooded areas that are far from most towns and farms:_____________.

2) A useful mineral found in the Middle Colonies:______________.

3) A person who can craft metal into tools or machines:____________.

4) Means of travel that colonial people could use to cross muddy trails:_____________.

5) Mountain range that sits to the west of the colonies that were started on

America’s Atlantic coast:_____________.

6) Word meaning to “make by the hands” or to produce any sort of goods

or tools or devices:_______________.

7) The pattern of commerce that moved goods such as rum and tobacco from

Europe, Africa, the West Indies, and America’s South and North:_____________.

8) A word to describe the not-too-hot and not-too-cold climate of America’s

middle regions:______________.

9) Border line that people use to separate the North and the South:____________.

10) A German word for “German” that doesn’t sound quite right?:_____________.

Thought Question: Why was town life less important in the Middle Colonies

than in the communities of New England?