USI.5b

 Vocab  Specialization- Focusing on making one or a few products  Any specialization today?  Resources- the raw materials, people, and equipment used to produce goods and services  Resources you can think of today?

 New England

  GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES  Appalachian Mountains  Boston Harbor  Hilly Terrain  Rocky Soil  Jagged Coastline  CLIMATE  Moderate Summers/Cold Winters New England Geography and Climate

  Timber  Fish  Deep Harbors Natural Resources

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  ECONOMIC SPECIALIZATION  Fishing  Shipbuilding  Industry  Naval Supplies  Trade and Port Cities New England’s $$$ Economy $$$

Food Clothing Weapons, ammunition, bathing supplies (soap)

In these cities, you would dock your boat and trade your belongings for new belongings, get your clothes patched or purchase new things. Everything was within walking distance to the harbor. Portsmouth was a port city!! Some cities specialized in one or two items (candles and ironworks)

  Skilled craftsmen  Shopkeepers  Shipbuilders  Sailors Human Resources

  Village and Church were the center of life  Led by Religious Reformers and Separatists  (Mass. Bay Colony and Plymouth Colony) New England’s Social Life New England’s Political Life Town meetings

In the New England communities, if you did not belong to the village church, you were excluded from town meetings and votes. Many times the leader of the church led the village.

 Mid Atlantic

  GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES  Appalachian Mountains  Coastal Lowlands—great for harbors bays, wide and deep rivers)  Rich farm lands  Wide Deep Rivers  CLIMATE  Mild winters and moderate climate Mid Atlantic Geography and Climate

The Appalachian Mountains in the Mid Atlantic Colonies are farther west of the coast, allowing for farming and less rocky soil.

  Rich farmlands  Farms Natural Resources

 Wheat corn rye Trade on rivers

  Skilled and unskilled workers  Fisherman Human Resources

  Livestock  Grain  Fish Economic Specialization

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  Villages and cities with varied and diverse lifestyles  Many different religions Social Life

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  Market Towns Civic Life

 The South

  Appalachian Mountains  Piedmont  Atlantic Coast Plain  Good harbors and rivers Geographic Features

 Piedmont

 Atlantic Coast Plain

  HUMID climate with mild winters and hot summers  Long growing seasons Climate

 Frost

  Fertile Land  Rivers and Harbors Natural Resources

  Farmers  Enslaved African Americans Human Resources

  Tobacco  Indigo- a dark blue dye  Cotton  Wood products (Tar, Pitch) Economic Specialization

 Tobacco Crop

 Indigo Indigo required the most labor in July, August and September when the pea-like plants were harvested and fermented in great open vats, and the dye was extracted. Indigo was used primarily for dyeing textiles, but also was useful as paint, cosmetics and for cleaning wounds.

 Cotton

  Tar is a dark, thick, sticky liquid produced by burning pine branches and logs very slowly in kilns. Seamen painted coats of tar on riggings that held masts and sails in place. Tar

  Pitch is produced by boiling tar to concentrate it. It was painted on the sides and bottoms of wooden ships to make them watertight Pitch

  Plantations  Plantations with Slave Labor  Mansions  Indentured Servants  Few cities  Few Schools  Church of ENGLAND Social Life

 Mansion/ Plantation

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 Few cities

  County Governments made most laws Civic Life

  Two or more people who depend on each other for goods and services  Any interdependence you can think of today?? Interdependence

  They depended on the South and the Mid Atlantic for goods and resources...  What can you think of? New England

  The New England colonies depended on the Southern colonies for crops such as tobacco, rice, cotton, and indigo, and for forest products such as lumber, tar, and pitch.  They depended on the Mid- Atlantic colonies for livestock and grains.

  They depended on New England and the South  What can you think of? Mid-Atlantic

  The Mid-Atlantic colonies traded with the Southern and New England colonies to get the products they did not produce.  The Mid-Atlantic colonies depended on the Southern colonies for tobacco, rice, cotton, indigo, and forest products.  They traded with the New England colonies for metal tools and equipment. Mid-Atlantic

  They also depended on New England and Mid- Atlantic.  Can we figure out what? The South

  The Southern colonies depended on the New England colonies for manufactured goods, including metal tools and equipment.  They depended on the Mid-Atlantic colonies for grains and other agricultural products not plentiful in the South. The South

  The New England colonies depended on the Southern colonies for crops such as tobacco, rice, cotton, and indigo, and for forest products such as lumber, tar, and pitch. They depended on the Mid-Atlantic colonies for livestock and grains.  The Mid-Atlantic colonies traded with the Southern and New England colonies to get the products they did not produce. The Mid-Atlantic colonies depended on the Southern colonies for tobacco, rice, cotton, indigo, and forest products. They traded with the New England colonies for metal tools and equipment.  The Southern colonies depended on the New England colonies for manufactured goods, including metal tools and equipment. They depended on the Mid-Atlantic colonies for grains and other agricultural products not plentiful in the South. Interdependence