1. Economic Life in the American Colonies
Using  the interactive map of the thirteen colonies found in the beginning of Chapter 4: Place and Time, answer the following:
What was the basis of colonial life?
What are some general geographical features that would influence agriculture in a region?
What crops were grown in the New England Colonies?
What is subsistence farming?
Why did New England colonists practice it?

2. Economic Life in the American Colonies
Using  the interactive map of the thirteen colonies found in the beginning of Chapter 4: Place and Time, answer the following:
How much did this type of farming contribute to the prosperity of a region?
How did poor farming conditions lead to development of other industries in New England?
What other industries besides farming developed in the New England colonies?

3. Economic Life in the American Colonies
Using  the interactive map of the thirteen colonies found in the beginning of Chapter 4: Place and Time, answer the following:
How was the demand for farm laborers in the Middle Colonies different from in New England?
What coastal industry played an important role in this trade between the Middle Colonies and Europe?

4. Economic Life in the American Colonies
Using  the interactive map of the thirteen colonies found in the beginning of Chapter 4: Place and Time, answer the following:
How did the soil quality and climate in the Middle Colonies affect the development of farming there?
What cash crops were grown in the Middle Colonies?
What cash crop was grown close to the coast in Delaware?

5. Making a living in the American Colonies
Define the following:
Subsistence Farming-
Cash Crop-
Diversity-
Principal-
Rely-
Triangular Trade-
Slave Codes-

6. Making a living in the American Colonies
Why was geography so important to the economic development of a colonial region?