Sophia Batistatos , Kelly Sung , Lan Chang and Sharon

Early colonies

South :fertile soil and long growing

seasons – Kelly * The southern colonies were an

ideal place for agriculture. This area consisted of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas. It was an area where the tidewater leaves minerals on the tideland, leaving it fertile and rich enough to grow plentiful of crops. Colonies located further south meant that the growing season was also longer. It usually lasted for 7 or 8 months. The climate was warm, damp and at the perfect temperature for growing cash crops. Primary products produced were staple crops such as cotton, tobacco, sugar, and rice. Cotton was the most profitable and valuable for southern farmers.

Plantations in the South-Kelly

* Plantations in the South

* The Southern colonies concentrated on agriculture and developing plantations to export mainly tobacco, cotton, corn, vegetables, grain, fruit, and livestock. A large population of the slave population was hired to work on these plantations. Inside, they usually grew cotton, rice, tobacco, indigo, and more crops. The large number of waterways located around the south made it easy for them to transport their goods. Plantations were known as self-sufficient, since they housed their planters, families, and workers needed. They were like small villages with small shops, schools, and everything needed inside of it. People in the south lived very far apart, so plantations were often separated by hundred of miles. By the 1600s, planters turned to enslaved Africans also known as indentured servants to work in the fields. They were promised to work on the land for several years in exchange for money and a place to live in.

Trade and manufacturing of the north –Sophia

* In the early colonies the northeast has generally poor land and weather making it difficult to make a living from farming. Turning to other pursuits, the New Englanders had water power and made grain mills and sawmills. Good resources of timber manufacturing of ships. Excellent harbors promoted trade, and the sea became a source of a lot of power and wealth. In Massachusetts, the cod industry also was profitable to the early colonies . The early colonies were also a part of Triangular trade was trading between three points. Many times it would be like bringing molasses from the Caribbean all the way to New England where it would be used to make Rum. Rum would then be shipped to Africa to be traded for slaves. After that Slaves would be brought to the Caribbean to work on the plantations.

* Much of this trade was done by New England traders, which helped to develop New England into a leader in trans-Atlantic trade and ship building. the primary dispute was that Britain forbade its colonies from trading directly with other countries rather than going through Britain. Colonies found it much more efficient and profitable to trade directly.

Location of the early colonies -LanThe Early Colonies were located

east of the Appalachian mountain along the coastal line. The Appalachians were located in the western border of the colonies which made a barrier that kept them closer to the coast. After the war, England controlled all of the eastside of the Mississippi River. Many colonists wanted to move across the Appalachian Mountains into land that the French had controlled before the war. The first colony was founded at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.

North harbors, forests, rock soil, short growing

season -Sharon

* The climate in the Northern colonies was much colder compared to the Southern colonies. Due to the temperature differences, the North had a more longer winter period, resulting in a short growing period. Also, compared to the South, the North had much more forests, rocks, mountains and lakes. Through these lakes and rivers, the Northern colonies relied on these harbors for transferring goods.