Describe daily life across class, race, gender, and region in the 13 English colonies — the New England / Mid-Atlantic / Southern three-region framework
Exercise
Difficulty 3
~5 min
hist.g5.f.ex_24
3 Region Economic Match
Prompt
Match each of the 3 colonial regions to its primary economic specialization AND one demographic feature.
How it's presented
mode
matching with 2 attributes
prompt audio ID
audio.g5f.ex 24.stem
Answer criteria
type
matching
pairs
- New England
- shipbuilding/cod/rum + most ethnically homogeneous (English)
- Mid-Atlantic
- bread-basket wheat + most diverse (~40% non-English)
- Southern
- plantation tobacco/rice/indigo + majority-Black in many counties
Hints
- MG-3 region-by-region overlay
- Lesson 11 covered each region in turn
Misconceptions to watch
- Confusing economic specialty
- Missing the demographic feature
Used in lessons