| Decipher the
Code Puzzle: English Colonies Come of Age |
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| 1. The southern colonies were largely
18-21-18-1-12. |
| 2. Plantations in Maryland, North Carolina,
and Virginia primarily grew 20-15-2-1-3-3-15. |
| 3. Plantations in Georgia and South
Carolina primarily grew 9-14-4-9-7-15 and rice. |
| 4. 16-8-9-12-1-4-5-12-16-8-9-1 became the
British empire's second-largest port, second only to London. |
| 5. 23-15-13-5-14 had few legal rights in
any of the colonies. |
| 6. The 5-14-12-9-7-8-20-5-14-13-5-14-20
called for the use of logical reasoning and the scientific
method. |
| 7. The revival of religious puritanism in
the early 1700s is known as the 7-18-5-1-20 1-23-1-11-5-14-9-14-7. |
| 8. Jonathan 5-4-23-1-18-4-19 wrote “Sinners
in the Hands of an Angry God.” |
| 9. The French and Indian War was a conflict
between the French and 5-14-7-12-9-19-8. |
| 10. 16-15-14-20-9-1-3 led Native Americans against the British in what is now Ohio and Michigan. |
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