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Economic Influences in Early American Colonies

Explore colonial life through climate impact, resources harvesting, and trade markets, shaping settlement decisions and economic growth. Learn how agriculture, shipbuilding, and fur trade drove colony development.

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Economic Influences in Early American Colonies

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  1. Chapter 3 Theme 1b Settling the Colonies

  2. Determining where to settle. • Climate • Natural Resources • Access to overseas markets • VITAL ROLES in determining where they lived. • In the South • Fertile Lands of Virginia and Carolina Colonies attracted wealthy planters. • Bought thousands of Indentured Servants, slaves to work plantations.

  3. In the North • Merchants and small farmers. • Not good agriculture • Made living from the sea • Trading, fishing ship building. • Deep water Harbor access= BIG $ (shipped overseas

  4. The South Colonies • Jamestown Virginia • Found by English Investors called the Virginia Company. • Outsted Indians and made money on tobacco • Planted first crop in early 1600 • Exported 10 million lbs of dry tobacco by mid century • Big money in big plantations brought in free and slave help • Spread N to Maryland, Delaware, S to S. Carolina

  5. The North Colonies • English families…the Pilgrims left England in the Mayflower. • Landed 2 months later in Massachusetts Bay (New England) • Wanted religion centered community • Anglicans were too wealthy and corrupt…New start new land • Puritans came..larger than pilgrims (Salem) • 20000 immigrants by 1643 • Formed own government, if you went against the church you were asked to leave. • Small Scale farming, fishing, lumbering, and shipbuilding.

  6. The Middle Colonies • Widely varied. • New York was Dutch, and Swedes in New Jersey. • Swedish also settled in Delaware. • Important for fur trade • Pennsylvania started by William Penn. Quaker • Dutch into commerce made New York major trading port. • Planters in Delaware grew Tobacco • Penn focused on wheat, corn and other food.

  7. Carolina Colony • First settlers came from Virginia • George and Ann Durant helped lead the way south…more land in 1661 • Paid 2 Yeopin Indians for a strip of land. • First land transaction • Became known as Albermarle County

  8. New group from Barbados went further south..sugar plantations. Named Charles Town after Charles the II, later changed to Charleston. • Experimented and found rice was best cash crop. • Had deep water harbor… why did this make them wealthy? • Became largest and wealthiest community.

  9. Carolina Economy • Albermarle– Tobacco • Forest – lumber, cows, pigs to forge • Shingles, barrel staves sent to west Indies.. Why? Along with corn, wheat and pork. • Most goods transported by water. Most colonies were near sea making land difficult to travel.

  10. Tar and Pitch • Naval stores -stayed waterproof with tar and pitch. • Came from pine trees. • Producing was difficult and delicate. • Men cut channels into tree trunks and stripped bark. • Collected sap / turpentine • Turpentine had to be removed (few uses) • Tree falls to ground 2-3 years later • Chopped into sticks and burned • fire covered with earth to make kiln • Sticky black tar produced • Burned again to produce pitch.

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