8. Immigration played a big role in the growth of the population. Also women married early and had large families.
9. Tidewater plantations were a region of flat low-lying plains along the seacoast. It was a self-containes community, with fields stretched out and surrounding buildings. The backcountry was a region of hills and the Appalachian mountains. They grew corn and tobaccos, with the help of family, or one or two slaves.
10. It was a religious revival that swept through the colonies. Ministers called for a "New Birth," or a return to the strong faith of earlier days. This lead to the formation of many new churches.
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12. In New England the soil was thin and rocky, which made large-scale famring very difficult. They practiced subsistence farming, which only provided just enought to support their familes. In the middle colonies the soil was fertile. They produced larger harvest than in New England. They grew cash crops that could be easily sold in the colonies and overseas.
13. It was a group of Native Americans that remained independent, that traded with the British and the French, by skillfully playing them against each other.
14. To insure that only Britain benefited trade from the colonies.
15. They started thinking about knowledge, science, and philosophy.
16. The Continent was divided between great Britain and spain with the Mississippi River marking the boundary.
17. Because the people who owned shares in land companies, that had already bought land west of the mountains, their claims had been ignored by Britain.
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