1. Life in Colonial America
Chapter 2, Section 2

2. Vocabulary and Academic Language
Vocabulary: You must complete a circle map for these words.
Subsistence farming, triangular trade, cash crop, indentured servant, overseer, charter colony, proprietary colony, royal colony.
Academic Language: You must complete a circle map for these words.
Adapt, principle.

3. The Big Idea
Change is necessary for growth.

4. Essential Questions How do ideas spread and why are they adopted?
How do ideas create change?
What is the relationship between people and economic systems?

5. The Colonies Grow
Many Englishmen did not believe that the 13 American colonies could ever join together to form a union because, “they were as different as ‘fire and water,’ and each colony was jealous of the other.”
Andrew Burnaby, 1760.

6. The Colonial Regional Breakdown
The New England Colonies:
Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut.
The Middle Colonies:
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware.
The Southern Colonies:
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

7. Commercial New England
Due to economic success and religious and political freedoms, a steady stream of new settlers continued to arrive.
Subsistence farming became the norm due to the New England regions thin, rocky soil.
The lack of good soil made large-scale farming impossible.
Shipbuilding was an important industry for New England, and the abundance of trees in the region made this a very profitable industry.

8. Colonial Trade
New England became an important trade destination for other parts of the world.
The trade routes that served New England became known as Triangular Trade because of the shape that the shipping routes made.

9. Triangular Trade

10. Triangular Trade An example of a typical trade voyage:
Ships brought sugar and molasses from the West Indies to the New England Colonies.
In New England, the molasses was made into rum.
Next, the rum and other manufactured goods were shipped to West Africa where they were traded for enslaved Africans.
Lastly, the enslaved Africans were taken to the West Indies where they were sold to planters.
The profit was used to buy molasses and then the process started all over again.

11. The Middle Colonies
The Middle Colonies had fertile soil and slightly warmer weather than the New England Colonies.
Due to better growing conditions, New York and Pennsylvania farmers were able to grow wheat and cash crops – crops that could be sold easier overseas and in markets.
New York City and Philadelphia became important cities in the middle colonies because their locations near water made them ideal for trading with overseas cities.