1. Chapter 5 Lesson 3
ACOS #5: Identify major leaders in colonial society.
ACOS #5d: Identify geographic features, landforms, and differences in climates among the colonies.
ACOS #5e: Describe emerging colonial governments.
ACOS #5f: Describe the development of the emerging labor force in the colonies.

2. Key Vocabulary Words
Industry – a business that sells a product or a service to other people.
Export – a product that is sold or traded to another country.
Import – a product brought into one country from another for sale or use.
Middle passage – the voyage enslaved Africans made, against their will, from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
Slave trade – buying and selling of human beings.
Line graph – a graph that shows changes in data over time.
Data – another word for facts or numbers.

3. Life in New England
This Lesson focuses on Life in New England. These colonies include: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Maine.
Main Idea: New England colonists made a living by using resources from the land and the sea.

4. Life in New England People of New England
Many of the people in New England were farmers.
Because farming was difficult, colonists used the natural resources such as water and wood.
Some began to build ships.
Boston soon became known as a shipbuilding industry.

5. Industry
An industry is all the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service.

6. Fishing and Whaling
Many people in New England made their living by catching and selling fish.
Cod was the most common fish.
Merchants sold much of the cod as exports to Europe and the West Indies.
Cultural Regions

7. Export An export is a product sent to another country and sold.
Colonists used
whales to make
products such as
oil for lamps. It
became a very
important industry.
They used heavily populated forests to build ships and buildings. They caught fish and whales from the Atlantic to use for food and other products.

8. Imports New Englanders exported products to other countries.
They traded these products
for goods they imported.
An import is a product
brought into one country
from another.
The shipping routes between
North America, Europe, and
Africa formed an imaginary
triangle known as the
Triangular Trade.

9. Slavery and the Triangular Trade
Some traders in the triangular trade route made money by selling slaves.
The Middle Passage was the voyage from Africa to the West Indies.
Many Africans died of disease or hunger along the way.
One important cash crop grown in the tidewater region was tobacco. By the 1650s, Virginia and Maryland were exporting almost five million pounds of tobacco every year.

10. Slave Trade Olaudah Equiano survived the Middle Passage.
Years later, he wrote a book about his experience.
He had been part of the slave trade.
The slave trade was a business of buying and selling human beings.

11. The Slave Trade
The Slave Trade

12. The Slave Trade
The Slave Trade

13. Home and Community Life
New England families were large (usually 6 or 7 children)
Most homes had just one main room with a fireplace.
It was also a workshop. Colonists made almost everything they needed at home.
At night, families would pull out mattresses and sleep close to the fire to stay warm. Wealthier families might have a second story or loft, where there would be more room for sleeping.

14. Education and Recreation
Puritans wanted their children to read the bible, so they had schools.
Older boys could go to college. Harvard was the first college in the 13 colonies.
Fun included horseracing, bowling, ice skating, and an early form of baseball.

15. The Great Awakening Church became less powerful in the 1700s.
This changed when 2 ministers Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield got people excited once again about religion.
This renewed interest in religion became known as The Great Awakening.
People felt as if they were waking up with new faith. Many churches allowed women, African Americans, and Indians.
Life in the backcountry was difficult. In some areas, there was no well-established government, and conflicts with American Indians were common.

16. Review: Lesson 3 1. What was the Middle Passage?
It was the trip by sea from Africa to West Indies that enslaved Africans were forced to take.
2. What was the Great Awakening?
It was the renewed interest in religion that occurred in the 1700s.
3. What effect did triangular trade have on Africans?
It had a devastating effect. They were taken from their homes and forced into slavery. Many died on the journey.
Northwest Coast