The Colonies

 Each of the __3__ regions location effected the economy of the colonies  The New England Colonies  soil was ____rocky _____and growing season was ___short___  great ___forest____ for lumber  Atlantic Ocean provided ___fish____  The Major city was _____Boston______

Life in Colonial New England New England Saw Mill Spinning wheel at OSV

 The Middle Colonies  had rich ___farmland_______  was known as the ______Bread_ ___Basket_______ Colonies  Major cities were ___Philadelphia__ and __New York_

Farmland in Pennsylvania and Independence Park in Philadelphia

 used ___slaves______ to work large farms  they grew __rice, cotton, tobacco, and indigo  ____Plantation_____ is another name for a large farm.  Many small farms in the south were located on the _frontier.

 By 1619 ______________ had become a cash crop.  a cash crop is grown just for money  people from England signed on as _________ ___________.  During this year the 1 st ___________ became slaves  In September of 1620 the _____________ landed at _____________

trade that required _3__ separate voyages was considered Triangular Trade. _rum, cloth, and iron goods went from N. America to Africa slaves and gold went from Africa to the Caribbean Islands. Molasses, sugar, and slaves went from the Caribbean Islands to N. America

 Many people used to ____bartering to trade goods or services during this time period.  ____imports__ were sold at general stores. These allowed people to buy things from other countries.  New England towns usually had a ____common in the middle of them  Town meetings were held to elect people and vote on laws.  As the port towns grew they eventually became _cities. The three largest were __Boston, New York, and Philadelphia.  The first university in N. America was _____Harvard___.

 In the early 1700’s religion was not as important as it was in when the first settlers came.  This time period became known as the ____Great Awakening_ since many ministers and priests tried to get more people to care about religion  Many colonists began to care about _Political Rights. They were upset that they did not a voice in deciding who would rule their colonies.

Colonists protest English laws

 One right that colonists wanted was a trial by ___jury_______.  The English felt strongly in _____mercantilism, which is the belief that a government grows stronger with the more _gold__________ it gets.  The English wanted to ______regulate or control the amount of trade that took place in the colonies.

 The British passed laws __Navigation Acts which created laws regulating trade in the colonies.  Colonists had to pay more _taxes_ to Great Britain. Section 3 The Middle Colonies