Natural+Resources+and+Colonial+Trades

3/28/11 ** Task: ** ** 1. Compare/contrast geography in northern, middle and southern colonies. **

** 2. How did the natural resources in an area affect the people who settled there? **

** 3. What conclusions can you draw about the trades found in each region? Give examples to back up your thoughts. **

Questions we have:
 * 1) What did they usually trade?
 * 2) What were there natural resources?
 * 3) What was there main natural resource?
 * 4) Who did they trade with?
 * 5) What did they use there natural resources?

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__Middle Colonies__ New Jersey: > 1674: Leather making > 1740: First iron forge
 * most colenist are farmer.
 * They grew flaxs and rye,weat and vegtibules they also raise live stock.
 * Whaling was important. They sold the whales bones in oil.
 * Pine forestes coverd most of the colony.
 * 1664:Glass in Allowystown

e milling with water wheel power.

New York:
 * Traded with the Native Americans for furs.
 * They traded cloth, guns and trinkets.
 * Furs were very valuble back then.
 * Their crops were flax, rye, wheat corn and vegtibles.
 * They also grew tobbacco.
 * They also raised live stock.
 * Slave tradind was importent.
 * It was legal until 1827.

__Northern Colonies__ Massachusetts
 * They made a living from trading and farming.
 * Was inhabited by 5 Native American trbes.
 * They traded with the Dutch.
 * Mass stored meat in pork barrels.
 * They hunted and gathered food in the forest.

Rhode Island
 * Rhode Island was big on sea food.
 * The sea food there was lobsters, oysters, and clams.
 * Major imports and exports inculed spices, glass, tools, paper, and guns.
 * They traded furs for goods.

Connecticut New Hampshire
 * Connecticut was big on farming.
 * The farms produced corn, oats, rye, bartley, peas, and tabaco.
 * They made clothing and tools.
 * The New Hampshire fished in streems, rivers, and the ocean.
 * They caught cod and pollock while fishing.
 * Natives told the colonist how to grow corn.
 * The colonist trapped animals.

__Southern Colonies__
 * Soon Virginia stared to make glass, barrels,boats and tar.
 * In 1612 Virginia sold a lot of tobacco to the Europeans
 * Virginia grew crops along the rivers, swamp and creeks
 * It was easy for Virginia to switch jobs because they had about 9,000 members
 * Virginia first exported lumber.