1. 13 Colonies
Forming of America

2. 13 Colonies New England Middle Colonies Southern Colonies Maryland
Massachusetts (includes present day Maine)
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Middle Colonies
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Southern Colonies
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia

3. Why did they come? Religious Freedom. Some sold everything.
Some had enough and some.
Some were kidnapped.
Some became servants for the chance.
Promise of cheap land.
Greater Opportunity to earn a living.
Immigrants wrote home to their families about America.
Encouraged everyone to come over.

4. Servants and Slaves Indentured Servants Slaves
Price of their voyage was paid off through working in America.
Once they paid their debt they became free.
4 out of 5 in Virginia and Maryland
Slaves
Plantations
Need a lot of work
Slave Trade
Business of buying or selling people.
Slaves were bought by wealthy plantation owners to work on the plantations.

5. Slave Trade 1 out of 7 (1/7) died during the voyage.
Packed very tight in a ships
To increase profit.

6. Colonial Economy
Who doesn’t love money?

7. 13 Colony Economy Overview
England tried to take control with laws.
Exports can only be shipped to England
Goods leaving a country
Imported
Cloth
Metal tools
Glass
Machines
Although England tried to control the Colonies they found a way to rebel.

8. Southern Colonies Jobs Plantation Owners Overseer
Great for Growing Crops
Climate
Hot and Humid
Good Soil
Cash Crops(their exports to England)
Tobacco
Rice
Indigo
Blue Dye
Jobs
Plantation Owners
Overseer
In charge of the slaves
Slaves
Shopkeepers

9. Jobs: Middle Colonies Farmers Fishermen Shop keepers
Breadbasket of the Colonies
Farmed
Corn
Wheat
Sold Surplus to England and West Indies
West Indies
Original location where Columbus landed
Needed to import for the slaves
Used all available land to grow Sugar Cane
Jobs:
Farmers
Fishermen
Shop keepers

10. New England Rocky Soil Used forests and Sea Jobs: Shipbuilding
Barely able to grow food for themselves.
Used forests and Sea
Jobs:
Ship builders
Fishermen
Shipbuilding
England’s ships were too expensive.
Needed boats to fish.
Used forests for their trees.
Great craftsmen's ship England began buying their ships.

11. New England Colonies Fishing Industry Exported their fish to
Whales
Exported their fish to
Spain
Portugal
West Indies
Fishing and Ship building created other industries:
Rope Makers
Sail Makers
And others that had skills to make other materials and equipment
Boston became a large trading City and Port.

12. Triangular Trade Route
1st leg
Boston or New York
Sailed to Europe
Cotton, Sugar, Coffee, Tobacco, Iron Goods, rum, guns.
2nd leg
Europe to Africa
Posts, pans, horses, rum, guns.

13. Triangular Trade Route
3rd Leg *Middle Passage*
Africa to West Indies and the 13 Colonies.
African slaves.
Lasted 6 to 8 weeks.
Traded for Molasses to help make rum.
All Port cities made a lot of money from the Triangular Trade.

14. Why does it matter? Jobs for the 13 In the cities there were:
Farming
Fishing
Trading
In the cities there were:
Blacksmiths
Carpenters
As the colonies grew….
Depended less on imports from Europe.
1700’s there was a free enterprise economy.
People can start any business they want
Colonists begin to get uneasy with Europe.