Impact of Geography Mid-Atlantic & Agriculture
What was the geography of the Mid-Atlantic region perfect for?
What is agriculture
What did Mid-Atlantic farmers usually sell?
What is their crops, lumber, and livestock
What did the cities of the Mid-Atlantic colonies bustle with?
What is shopkeepers and merchants
What did poor laborers and enslaved African Americans do in cities?
What is they did hard work on loading docks, in laundries, and as house servants.
How were plantations compared to farms?
What is they were more like small villages.
What did the farmers of the Mid-Atlantic region perfect grow?
What is vegetables, fruits, wheat, corn, barley, and grains
Where were the largest markets in the Mid-Atlantic region?
What is a artisan?
What is a person skilled at a specialized trade or craft.
What did poor laborers and enslaved African Americans do in the rural areas?
What is they worked on farms and plantations
What surrounded the plantation?
What is kitchens, workshops, and horse stables.
What animals did farmers raise in the Mid-Atlantic region?
What is cattle, sheep, and pigs
How did farmers ship their goods?
What is on wide rivers to the port cites
Who did the Mid-Atlantic cities attract and why?
What is immigrants from many different countries. There was opportunity for almost everyone in the Mid-Atlantic colonies.
What did planters need?
What is lots of workers to run their plantations.
Who lived near the planation?
What is cooks, nannies, and enslaved people.
Why was the Mid-Atlantic region known as the "breadbasket" for the other colonies?
What is they grew corn, barley, and other grains.
What is whale blubber?
What is fat?
How many regions are the 13 colonies divided into?
What is 3.
How did plantation owners get African slaves?
What is they brought them from slave traders as part of the Atlantic Triangle Trade.
Where did enslaved field-workers live?
What is they lived farther away in small cabins.
What did the Southerns economy depend on?
What is agriculture trade.
What year did shipbuilding become a major industry?
What is the 1700s.
How many colonies are there?
What is 13.
What type of work did most enslaved people do?
What is they worked in fields planting, tending, and harvesting crops. they also took care of livestock, cooked, and cleaned, ran errands and built structures on southern plantations.
Plantations were what of the region's economy?
What is backbone.