GEOGRAPHY OF THE 13 COLONIES ECONOMIES

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GEOGRAPHY OF THE 13COLONIES ECONOMIES
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GEOGRAPHY OF THE 13COLONIES ECONOMIES

• Large cities grew because of good harbors
• 1 - Boston 2 Providence
• 3 - Hartford 4 New York City
• 5 - Philadelphia 6 Baltimore
• 7 - Portsmouth 8 New Haven
• 9 - Charles Town 10 Savannah

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GEOGRAPHY OF THE 13COLONIES ECONOMIES
New England

• Long Winters
• Thin, rocky soil
• Subsistence farming, fishing, shipbuilding,
  lumber
• rum, trade

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GEOGRAPHY OF THE 13COLONIES ECONOMIES
Middle

• Milder climate
• Fertile soil
• Cash crops such as barley, oats (became known as
• the Breadbasket Colonies
• Lumber, mining, iron

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GEOGRAPHY OF THE 13COLONIES ECONOMIES
Southern

• Warm climate
• Rich soil
• Tobacco, rice, indigo (tobacco originally most
• profitable)
• Plantations grew needed lots of labor
  slavery
• Increased because of labor shortage
• Region of large Southern plantations was the
• Tidewater region

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COLONIES AS AN ENGLISHRESOURCE
Theory of Mercantilism
Nations trade grows Gold reserves
increase Power
Colonies England raw materials finished
goods (sold at low prices) (sold at higher
prices)
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NAVIGATION ACTS

• Directed the flow of goods between England and
  the colonies
• Colonists could not use foreign ships to send
  goods to England
• Colonists could not send things like sugar and
  tobacco outside Englands empire
• Some colonists began smuggling

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Triangular Trade

• Slave Codes strict rules governing behavior and
  punishment of slaves
• Puritans, Quakers, and Mennonites anti-slavery
• Slavery was one reason for the economic success
  of the Southern colonies, especially the
  Tidewater area
• As indentured servants (people whose passage was
  paid to America in return for 4-7 years service)
  became fewer, the labor shortage caused an
  increase in slavery.