1. Different Ways of Life The Economy of Colonial America

2. New England

3. poor farming - rocky soil, dense forests

4. Coast used for fishing, shipbuilding, trade

5. Fishing, whaling, trapping Some livestock (cows, sheep)

6. Rivers are difficult to navigate Can be used for energy

7. Must use roads to travel, trade

8. Cities develop as centers of trade, shipping

9. Middle Colonies

10. Better soil - larger farms

11. Cash crops - surplus crops grown to make money

12. Fewer cities than New England

13. When land runs out, immigrants flood into the backcountry Appalachians

14. Great Wagon Road over the Appalachians is eventually replaced by the National Road

15. Conflict with the Indians as settlers moved over the Appalachian Mountains!

16. The South

17. Plantations - completely self- sufficient farms

18. Includes a blacksmith, silversmith, cooper (barrelmaker), grain mill, etc

19. Muddy and wet in spring, summer Hard to travel by road

20. Rivers - wide, easy to navigate Goods shipped directly from plantation - few cities develop

21. Large plantations depended on slave labor

22. Crops - tobacco, cotton, rice

23. Pigs, cattle