New England Colonies

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New England Colonies

• The number of people living in the colonies rose
  from about 250,000 in 1700 to approximately 2.5
  million by the mid-1770s.
• The population of African Americans increased at
  an even faster ratefrom about 28,000 to more
  than 500,000.

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What were some reasons for the growing
population in Colonial America?
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• Immigration
• Colonial women tended to marry early and have
  large families
• Healthy place to live

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What is subsistence farming?
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Subsistence Farming

• A practice of farming which the people generally
  produce just enough food to meet the needs of
  their families and little left over to sell.
• - In the north all families members worked.

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What were some of the small businesses that
existed in New England
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• Sold grain and lumber for ship bilding
• Women would make soaps, candles, garments, ect
• Blacksmiths, Shoemakers, Gunsmiths and Printers.

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Middle Colonies

• Why were the middle colonies able to expand so
  much quicker than the New England colonies?

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Middle Colonies

• Fertile soil and milder climate
• Produced bigger harvests than did New Englanders
• By the 1760s New York, with 18,000 people, and
  Philadelphia, with 24,000 people, were the
  largest cities in the American colonies.
• Many held similar jobs but in addtion worked in
  metal factories (Germans)

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Southern Colonies

• Southern farmers could cultivate large areas of
  land and produce harvests of cash crops.
• Because most settlers in the Southern Colonies
  made their living from farming the land, they did
  not have the need to develop commerce or
  industry.
• In the Southern Colonies, the independent small
  farmers of the backcountry outnumbered the large
  plantation owners. The plantation owners,
  however, had greater wealth and more influence.
  They controlled the economic and political life
  of the region.