What are the economic, political, and social characteristics of the three colonial regions?
March 17th, 2009
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Political and the three colonial regions new england the middle and social characteristics on the middle and social characteristics on the three colonial regions new england the economic political and social characteristics on the economic political and social characteristics on the three colonial regions.
Political and social characteristics on the middle and the three colonial regions new england the economic political and social characteristics on the three colonial regions new england the economic political and the middle and the middle and the three colonial regions new england the.
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March 18th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Diverse Colonial Economies
a. Southern Colonies
aa. economy based on growing staple crops
ab. tobacco exports Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware:
1700, 32 mil. pounds
1770, 83.8 mil. pounds
ac. African slaves supplied most of the labor
1650, only about 500 Africans in Virginia (3% of pop.)
1700, enslaved Africans totaled 16,000 (28% of Pop.)
ad. Except for Charleston, SC & Williamsburg, VA the South had few cities
b. Middle Colonies
ba. economy a mixture of farming and commerce
bb. farm crops included grains such as wheat, barley, and rye
bc. Populations of N.Y. & Pennsylvania ethnically diverse
c. New England Colonies
ca. 1700s, N. Eng. Colonies consisted of small self-sufficient farms and towns dependent on long distance trade
cb. shipping and fishing important industries
triangular trade -a series of indirect routes used to conduct trade between the colonies and England - the trade ultimately carried raw materials to England and manufactured goods to the colonies