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LIFE IN THE COLONIES
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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
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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
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MORE VOCABULARY
Slave code: they were strict rules that governed the enslaved Africans
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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.
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Bradley Wells
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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.
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Stuck in Customs
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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.
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Will Montague
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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.
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ekenitr
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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.
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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.
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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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MARIA BROWN, EMMA MCCANN, AND BEN BOLL
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