English Policies
What policy is the English follow?
Mercantilism
What was the main jobs in the middle colonies?
Farming
Who mostly managed southern trade?
London merchants rather then local merchants!
What the the principle cash crop in Maryland Virginia?
Tobacco
What was Slavery?
Where they took African to North America and made them work without or with little pay!
What did countries do to achieve their goals of building suplplies of gold and silver?
Sell to other country's rather than buy from countrys
It had more fertile soil then and slightly milder climate than what region?
New Englnad
What is a plantation?
Like a small village it had lots of fields, building,stables,kitchens,blacksmith and carpenter shops, chapel,school, and enslaved workers.
Who did farmers use to help on their plantations for a certain amount of time?
Indentured Servants.
Where did slaves come from?
They came from Africa
Goods such as tools,clothing,and furniture!
In________and_________,farmers grew large quantities of wheat and other cash crops?
New York and Pennsylvania.
The area between the Appolation mountain and Tidewater is called?
Backcountry where the hardy newcomes of colonies went.
After the profits of tobacco fel what crops did farmers switch to?
What was a major part of the colonial economy?
Slave trade was a major part of the colonial economy.
English looked for raw material such as?
Tobacco,rice,indigo,wheat,lumber,fur,leather,fish,and whale products.
What are cash crops?
Crops that could be sold easily in markets in the colonies and overseas
What did they do in the Backcountry?
They had farms also they outnumbered the large plantations but large plantations had more money so they ruled the econic and political part of region.
In low-lying areas along the coast,planters built dams to create rice fields,called______?
Paddies.
What did the slaves learn?
They learned trade,such as carpentry,blacksmithing,or weaving.
What are the acts?
England began passing laws called navigation acts in the 1650's.
Some were home-based crafts,such as?
carpentry and flour making
Most large plantations where located where and why?
Tidewater, because it was a plains along sea coast so they could ship product by boat.
The geography of South Carolina and Georgia helped make_____the main cash crop there?
Rice
What was the slaves code?
The punishment and the governing of the behavior of the slaves.