The 13 Colonies By Emily M.
Founding Fathers John Adams was know for being the second president of the United States. Benjamin Franklin was know for inventing bifocals. Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independenc e. George Washington was the very first president of the United States.
3 Regions of the 13 Colonies New England: Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island Middle Colonies: New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware Southern Colonies: Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia
What Made Them Unique New England had fishing, whaling, trapping, shipbuilding, and logging The Southern Colonies had rice, indigo, tobacco, sugarcane, cotton, and farming The middle colonies had logging, shipbuild ing, textiles, productio n, paperma king, barley, wheat, oats, and rye
Games They played board games, puzzles, and card games
Jobs and Tools Weavers grow in prominence when embargos ban imported cloth, silversmith had to know how to shape there materials with artistic talent, taste, and design. For tools they used augers, and saws.
Clothing Men wore breeches, unlined coats, and cloaks. Women wore caps, gowns, and petticoats
Education They practiced letters on slate boards, assembled educational puzzles, and girls sewed.
Homes Rich colonists usually live in large homes and on plantations. Poor colonists lived in small houses that only have one room. Middle class colonists lived in small house but they were bigger than the poor colonists houses.
Food Peanut Soup Shepard’s Pie Apple Tansy Wassail
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