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Life in New England

Life in New England. Life in the Middle Colonies. Most Ethnically diverse Colonies. Nationalities included English, Dutch, Swedish, German, Scots-Irish, and French Allowed to Practice any Religion ( Really bc proprietors were more concerned with colonist buying or renting land)

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Life in New England

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  1. Life in New England

  2. Life in the Middle Colonies • Most Ethnically diverse Colonies. Nationalities included English, Dutch, Swedish, German, Scots-Irish, and French • Allowed to Practice any Religion ( Really bc proprietors were more concerned with colonist buying or renting land) • Small Farms and Grew crops (mostly wheat) but other included corn, barley, pumpkins, rye, potatoes, and peas • Middle Colonies was a free enterprise. Proprietors did not tell colonist what to do, they could decide what will earn them the most money and sell that. • Girls/women- housework, Boys/men-Build, fix, hunt, & raise animals

  3. Life in the Southern Colonies • Plantation system • Few roads and towns built • Land 1st worked by Indentured servants . Many died before contract ended or forced to become Yeoman farmer. • Plantation owners who import indentures, were granted a 50 acre “headright,” • Designed for Rich to get Richer. Wealth=political and economic power Social Pyramid • Planters – wealthy estate owners who grew cash crops and could afford to own slaves/indentures • Yeomen farmers – free “backcountry” farmers who owned their own land, but lacked the resources to grow cash crops or own slaves • Tenant farmers – free laborers who rented land from others to farm for themselves • Indentured servants – Europeans who had agreed to limited terms of indenture in exchange for their passage to the colonies • Slaves – African or Indians held in involuntary servitude and used as manual labor to work the plantations of the planter class

  4. The (New) Triangular Trade • New England merchants carried colonial products (lumber, fish, southern cash crops) to the Caribbean sugar plantations • The Caribbean sugar planters would then trade sugar, or simply exchange British bills of exchange (a form of money), for the American goods

  5. The (New) Triangular Trade • New England merchants then brought the sugar back home to be distilled into rum and used the bills of exchange to buy British finished goods (or slaves, which could be mostly traded to the southern colonies)

  6. Colony Propaganda Poster Directions

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  8. Based on what we learned What is the difference between Virginia and New England?

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