Comments on: What are the economic, political, and social characteristics of the three colonial regions? http://macmccadden.com/what-are-the-economic-political-and-social-characteristics-of-the-three-colonial-regions-84.html Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:41:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: atwil http://macmccadden.com/what-are-the-economic-political-and-social-characteristics-of-the-three-colonial-regions-84.html/comment-page-1#comment-177 atwil Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:11:55 +0000 http://macmccadden.com/what-are-the-economic-political-and-social-characteristics-of-the-three-colonial-regions-84.html#comment-177 <a href=""></a> 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

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

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