1. Farming in the Colonies
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2. What did they do?
Farmers usually sold their food for money to buy more land and grow more vegetables to feed his family
The farmer's family works on the farm and all have different jobs to do
Big colony owners own huge plantations with slaves working on them
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3. Farming with Slavery
People that mean a lot to the colony become very rich and they buy plantations from Native Americans in the area
When slavery in America started in 1619, the people that owned the plantations thought that the slaves could work on the plantations
This was before the cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney,so they had to pick the cotton themselves
Slaves thought they could escape, this started when Harriet Tubman escaped from a plantation in December in 1850
She continued to take slaves one by one to Pennsylvania
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4. What did they eat? Did you know?
That it depended on what time of year it was that they had to eat certain foods
What did they eat?
In the spring, the Native Americans taught the farmer’s to hunt and grow crops
In the summer, they ate bread,corn,barley,oats,and tobacco
In the autumn, they ate beans,squash,peas,okra,pumpkins,peppers, peanuts,rice and potatoes
In the winter, they ate whatever was left from what they ate in autumn
This is okra
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5. The cotton gin
This is the cotton gin,the invention that Eli Whitney made in Farmers used this to pick out the cotton seeds from the cotton plant.
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