LIFE IN THE COLONIES

VOCABULARY

• Subsistence farming: farming enough food to meet their needs
• Relied: someone depends on something else
• Triangular trade: a trade rout that formed a triangular path
• Middle Passage: when the enslaved Africans were being shipped to the West Indies
• Cash crops: these crops were used to feed families and sold in markets

VOCABULARY CONTINUED

• Principal: most Important cash crop.
• Surplus: extra amount of crops that caused the prices to fall.
• Tidewater: a region of flat, low-lying plains along the sea coast.
• Black Country: a region of hills and forests that was settled by new comers
• Overseers: bosses to keep the enslaved Africans working hard

MORE VOCABULARY

• Slave code: they were strict rules that governed the enslaved Africans

NEW ENGLAND COLONIES

• The colonies continued to grow larger.
• Immigration was important to the growth.
• It also grew because the colonial women had large families.
• They had meetings in the middle of the town and were well organized.

FARMING

• Farming was the main activity in the colonies.
• There were long winters and thin, rocky soil made farming difficult.
• Farmers in New England practiced subsistence farming.
• Most farmers relied on there children for their labor.
• They would spin yarn, preserve fruit, milk cows, sow and harvest.

COLONIAL TRADE

• Northern coastal cities were the center of trade.
• They carried fish, furs, and fruit to trade for manufactured goods.
• They developed a rout called the triangular trade rout.
• West Africa traded for enslaved Africans.
• The slavery of Africans was widely practiced.

THE MIDDLE PASSAGE

• The enslaved Africans were tied together and treated harshly.
• The cruelty continued as they were being shipped to the West Indies.
• That part of the voyage to the Americas was called the Middle Passage.
• They were chained together, and were given little food and water.
• Some died and those who didn't were sold.

IMMIGRANTS

• German immigrants came to America.
• The Germans, Dutch, Swedish and other people settled in the middle colonies.
• There were nearly 100,000 German immigrants that came to America.

SOUTHERN COLONIES

• There area was well suited for farming.
• Tobacco was the most important crop.
• Some profits fell because there was an extra amount of tobacco.
• They switched to growing other crops.
• The main crop in South Carolina and Georgia was rice.

SLAVERY

• The slaves suffered great pain and cruelty.
• They had to work hard.
• They had very strict rules and punishments.
• They weren't able to learn to read and write.
• Families were torn apart.

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