Life in the 13 colonies

Life in the 13 colonies

Colonial agriculture, forestry, and fishery

Colonial food and clothesColonial religionColonial educationColonial trade

The Southern Colonies

The Middle Colonies

New England Colonies

13 Colonies

Colonial agriculture, forestry, and fishery

New England colonies Long & cold winter, and rocky soil: difficult

to grow food→ short growing seasonSubsistence farming: farmers produced

enough food for the family’s own needs. Cutting down trees to build houses, ships,

etc…Fishing, hunting whales and other animals

Colonial agriculture, forestry, and fishery

Middle colonies Mild climate, rich soil,

long deep rivers→ long growing season.

Farmer produced more food: grain and meat to

feed themselves & to export

Breadbasket colonies: produced so much grain.

Colonial agriculture, forestry, and fishery

Southern coloniesWarmer weather than

the others, mild winters.

Large area of flat with very rich soil

→nearly grow crops throughout the year.

3 cash crops: tobaco, rice, & indigo

Colonial food & clothes

What did they eat? What did they wear?

What did they eat?

Ate lots of grain, seafood(lobsters, clams…) animals(rabbits, squirrels, bears, deers…)

Drank more than we do now: water, milk, cider or tea

What did they wear?

A gown

A mob cap

What did they wear?

breeches

waistcoat

Colonial religion

New England colonists were Puritans and they were very strict about worshiping in church. The Middle colonists were a mixture of religion: Quakers, Catholics, and Jews. The Southern colonies also had a mixture of religions including Baptist and Anglicans

.

Colonial education

A hornbook

Parents wanted their children to learn how to read and write the Bible.

Some children went to school and some didn‘t.The schools had only one room and the children

had to sit on hard benches.One teacher taught all of the children of every

grade level.The children learned from hornbooks.The first school was a Dame School.Girls did not go to school very long. They should

know how to care for the house, spin and cook.

Colonial education

Colonial trade

They sold what they produced and bought what they did not produce.

Goods came from two main sourses: Europe and Africa. This came to be known as ‘triangular-trade’.

Slavers who were brought from Africa were viewed as goods or properties, not human beings.

Colonial tradeSlavery

shackles

ConclusionThe diversity of the 13 colonies

offered a great deal of economic possibilities to the British Empire.

It would also give the 13 colonies the wealth needed to start becoming a country.