3. What is agriculture? Farming Growing crops and raising animals

4. Farmers Lives in the New England Colonies

5. From: McCabe, James D. The Pictorial History of the United States. Philadelphia: The National Publishing Company, 1877.

6. Postcard showing Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1622, with buildings identified. W.L. Williams, c 1901

7. Rock Walls in New England

8. Cold winters made farming hard in the New England colonies.

9. Corn Common Crop in the New England Colony

10. Farmers Lives in the Middle Colonies

11. This painting, entitled "The Residence of David Twining, 1787," depicts a farm in Bucks County, Pa. (Oil (1845-48) by Edward Hicks. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, Colonial Williamsburg.)

12. Wheat Common Crop in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies The Mid-Atlantic colonies grew so much wheat that they were called “the breadbasket” colonies.

13. Farming and wheat processing was often done near rivers. Why?

14. Farmers Lives in the Southern Colonies

15. Tobacco being harvested in the Virginia Colony. Source: Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 10) (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1912)

16. Life of George Washington--The Farmer Painted by Stearns ; lith. by Régnier, imp. Lemercier, Paris. C 1853

17. South Carolina Rice Plantation

18. Small Southern Farms Large Southern Plantations A plantation is a very large farm.

19. Rice A common crop in the Southern Colonies

20. Indigo Plant

21. Fabric Dyed with Indigo