Natural Resources and Colonial Trades

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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?

Resources


Middle Colonies
New Jersey:
  • 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
    1674: Leather making
    1740: First iron forge


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
  • Connecticut was big on farming.
  • The farms produced corn, oats, rye, bartley, peas, and tabaco.
  • They made clothing and tools.
New Hampshire
  • 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.