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U.S. HISTORY: Matching: Life in the Colonies
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| self sufficient | to take care of yourself |
| New England colonists | most came from England or Scotland |
| subsistence farmer | grew enough food to survive on |
| New England colonists jobs | farmers, shipbuilders, whalers, fisherman |
| Entertainment in the colonies | music and dancing |
| New England Colonies | New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island |
| plantations | huge farms in the South that contained houses for slaves and servants, bake houses, blacksmith shops, dairies |
| Great House | the mansion were the planter and his family lived on the plantation |
| Plantation owners | were mainly English |
| 35% of the South's population | slaves |
| small poor farmers in the South | Germans, Scotch-Irish |
| Southern Colonies | Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia |
| tobacco | main cash crop grew in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina |
| cash crops | crops that could be sold in the colonies, or shipped back to England to be sold for large profits. |
| rice and indigo | cash crops grown in South Carolina and Georgia |
| Middle Colonies | Pennsylvannia, Delaware, New Jersey, New York |
| much of the land of these colonies was already cleared by the Indians | Middle Colonies |
| Most diverse colonies | Middle Colonies |
| craftsmen | shoemakers, tailors, blacksmiths, carpenters, watchmakers, printers |
| Middle Colonies | colonists came from England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands |
| Manufacturning jobs | glass, textiles, paper |
| Middle Colonies | relations with the Indians was good. |
| Crops/trade items of Middle Colonies | wheat, corn, beef, pork |
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