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Life in the Colonies

Life in the Colonies. Chapter 4 Section 1. Life in the Colonies. How many of the 13 Original colonies can you name? . Chapter 4 Section 1.

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Life in the Colonies

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  1. Life in the Colonies Chapter 4 Section 1

  2. Life in the Colonies How many of the 13 Original colonies can you name? Chapter 4 Section 1

  3. The Roanoke Colonyon Roanoke Island in Dare County, present-day North Carolina, United States, was a late-16th-century attempt by Queen Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English settlement. The final group of colonists disappeared during the Anglo-Spanish War, three years after the last shipment of supplies from England. Their disappearance gave rise to the nickname "The Lost Colony." Life in the Colonies Chapter 4 Section 1

  4. The founding of Jamestown, America’s first permanent English colony, in Virginia in 1607 – 13 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in Massachusetts – sparked a series of cultural encounters that helped shape the nation and the world.  The government, language, customs, beliefs and aspirations of these early Virginians are all part of the United States’ heritage today. Life in the Colonies Chapter 4 Section 1

  5. Plymouth Colony (sometimes New Plymouth, or Plymouth Bay Colony) was an English colonial venture in North America from 1620 to 1691. The first settlement of the Plymouth Colony was at New Plymoth, a location previously surveyed and named by Captain John Smith. • Remember • Mayflower Compact • First Thanksgiving Life in the Colonies Chapter 4 Section 1

  6. Life in the Colonies Chapter 4 Section 1

  7. New England

  8. New England Colonial AGRICULTURE SUBSISTENCE FARMING • What does it mean that a family farm practiced subsistence agriculture? • SUBSIDE + AGRICULTURE • ROCKY SOIL • CORN, SQUASH, BEANS, CRANBERRIES, PUMPKINS, WHEAT

  9. New England Colonial AGRICULTURE 2.Why would the New England Colonies only practice subsistence farming? 3. What do you think would be the main economic activity of the New England Colonies?

  10. SALT BOX HOUSE

  11. New England Colonial Commerce Small Town Industry • Water Mills powered small factories for lumber and grain. • Ship building along coasts. • Fishing

  12. Middle Colonies Industry • Large Farms for Families, Quakers, and Amish • Cash Crops of : • Wheat, Corn, Livestock, Dairy • Home Based Industry • Lumber, Furniture, Milling flour, • Town Industry • Iron Mill, Mining, Manufacture of Guns and Farm Equipment.

  13. Immigrants to Middle Colonies • Germans and Dutch in Pennsylvania • Swedish • Other Protestant Groups • Very Diverse Religiously

  14. 4. How do the New England Colonies differ from the Middle Colonies/how are they similar?

  15. Southern Colonies Economy Plantation System • 100s to a 1000 slaves on a single plantation. • EXTREMELY HARD WORK • Indentured Servants • 7years of slavery • After that you got land, and money, and freedom.

  16. Cash Crops

  17. Tidewater and Back Country Tidewater Plantations Back Country Hardy People of Appalachians who lived by growing and selling mainly tobacco and distilling mainly whiskey. • Coastal Plantation in South Carolina that shipped out by boat when Tide was up.

  18. THE MIDDLE PASSAGE

  19. A Word About Slavery

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