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Different Ways of Life

Different Ways of Life. The Economy of Colonial America. New England. poor farming - rocky soil, dense forests. Coast used for fishing, shipbuilding, trade. Fishing, whaling, trapping. Some livestock (cows, sheep). Rivers are difficult to navigate. Can be used for energy.

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Different Ways of Life

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  1. Different Ways of Life The Economy of Colonial America

  2. New England

  3. poor farming - rocky soil, dense forests

  4. Coast used for fishing, shipbuilding, trade

  5. Fishing, whaling, trapping • Some livestock (cows, sheep)

  6. Rivers are difficult to navigate • Can be used for energy

  7. Must use roads to travel, trade

  8. Cities develop as centers of trade, shipping

  9. Middle Colonies

  10. Better soil - larger farms

  11. Cash crops - surplus crops grown to make money

  12. Fewer cities than New England

  13. When land runs out, immigrants flood into the backcountry Appalachians

  14. Great Wagon Road over the Appalachians is eventually replaced by the National Road

  15. Conflict with the Indians as settlers moved over the Appalachian Mountains!

  16. The South

  17. Plantations - completely self-sufficient farms

  18. Includes a blacksmith, silversmith, cooper (barrelmaker), grain mill, etc

  19. Muddy and wet in spring, summer • Hard to travel by road

  20. Rivers - wide, easy to navigate • Goods shipped directly from plantation - few cities develop

  21. Large plantations depended on slave labor

  22. Crops - tobacco, cotton, rice

  23. Pigs, cattle

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