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Life in the 13 colonies
Life in the 13 colonies
Colonial agriculture, forestry, and fishery
Colonial food and clothesColonial religionColonial educationColonial trade
The Southern Colonies
The Middle Colonies
New England Colonies
13 Colonies
Colonial agriculture, forestry, and fishery
New England colonies Long & cold winter, and rocky soil: difficult
to grow food→ short growing seasonSubsistence farming: farmers produced
enough food for the family’s own needs. Cutting down trees to build houses, ships,
etc…Fishing, hunting whales and other animals
Colonial agriculture, forestry, and fishery
Middle colonies Mild climate, rich soil,
long deep rivers→ long growing season.
Farmer produced more food: grain and meat to
feed themselves & to export
Breadbasket colonies: produced so much grain.
Colonial agriculture, forestry, and fishery
Southern coloniesWarmer weather than
the others, mild winters.
Large area of flat with very rich soil
→nearly grow crops throughout the year.
3 cash crops: tobaco, rice, & indigo
Colonial food & clothes
What did they eat? What did they wear?
What did they eat?
Ate lots of grain, seafood(lobsters, clams…) animals(rabbits, squirrels, bears, deers…)
Drank more than we do now: water, milk, cider or tea
What did they wear?
A gown
A mob cap
What did they wear?
breeches
waistcoat
Colonial religion
New England colonists were Puritans and they were very strict about worshiping in church. The Middle colonists were a mixture of religion: Quakers, Catholics, and Jews. The Southern colonies also had a mixture of religions including Baptist and Anglicans
.
Colonial education
A hornbook
Parents wanted their children to learn how to read and write the Bible.
Some children went to school and some didn‘t.The schools had only one room and the children
had to sit on hard benches.One teacher taught all of the children of every
grade level.The children learned from hornbooks.The first school was a Dame School.Girls did not go to school very long. They should
know how to care for the house, spin and cook.
Colonial education
Colonial trade
They sold what they produced and bought what they did not produce.
Goods came from two main sourses: Europe and Africa. This came to be known as ‘triangular-trade’.
Slavers who were brought from Africa were viewed as goods or properties, not human beings.
Colonial tradeSlavery
shackles
ConclusionThe diversity of the 13 colonies
offered a great deal of economic possibilities to the British Empire.
It would also give the 13 colonies the wealth needed to start becoming a country.