The Middle Colonies: Farms and Cities

1. The Middle Colonies: Farms and Cities By: Rachel Watson Tabacco plants were just one of cash plants

2. Vocabulary • Cash crop-A crop, such as tobacco, grown for direct sale rather than for livestock feed. • Gristmill-A mill for grinding grain. • Diversity-The fact or quality of being diverse; difference • Artistan-A skilled manual worker; a craftsperson • Conestoga wagon-A heavy covered wagon with broad wheels, used especially by American pioneers as they traveled west.

3. A Wealth Of Resources A French man named Michel Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur wanted fair cities that includes: good roads, meadows, and bridges. These settlements were soon crowed with Natives for thousand years.

4. The Importance of Mills After harvesting, the farmers took their grains such as: corn, wheat and rye to the gristmill to get crushed. Then at the mills the use heavy stones to crush the grain. After that it is made in to flour or meal.

5. The Cities Prosper New York grew up at the mouth of the Hudson River. Philadelphia was founded on the Delaware River. Philadelphia was one of the fastest growing cities in the Middle Colonies. The city owned a lot of thriving trades. By, 1720 Philadelphia owned over a dozen shipyards.

6. A Diverse Region Many immigrants arrived in the Middle Colonies. That soon showed. The population grew enormously. There were many groups of people such as: the Germans, English,Dutch, and many more. The Germans built Conestoga wagons which allowed transportaion easier.

7. A Climate of Tolerance Quakers ideas influenced immigrants in the Middle colony. Most Quaker women severed as preachers.

8. African Americans in the Middle Colonies Middle Colonies didn’t prevent slavery . Many Whites would treat Africans with no respect by hitting them or making them their slaves. Africans had no choose but to move North.