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Copy this on the bottom half of NB p.27. Farming. Towns. Northeastern States. Fishing & Trade. Slaves. Lesson 4.1: Commerce in New England. Today’s Essential Question: What were the important economic activities of the New England states?. Vocabulary . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Lesson 4.1: Commerce in New England
Today’s Essential Question: What
were the important economic activities of the New England
states?
Vocabulary
• subsistence farming – growing food and livestock for personal use
• cash crop – a crop grown in large quantities intended for sale, rather than for personal use
Check for Understanding• What are we going to do today?• Is a farmer who tends 500 acres
conducting subsistence farming or is he growing a cash crop?
What We Already Know
New England was where some of
the first English colonies were
established, by courageous men and women who willingly faced
great hardships in the name of
religious freedom.
What We Already Know
During colonial times, New England established itself as the center of
trans–Atlantic trade.
What We Already Know
Slavery was a major part of colonial life and continued to be important to the national economy in the early 1800s.
Farming in New England was difficult.
• Harsh climate – short, hot summers and long, bitter winters
• Poor, rocky soil• Most New England farmers practiced
subsistence farming instead of growing cash crops.
Most New England farmers lived near a town.
• Originally, the Puritan church divided farmland among its members.
• Farmhouses surrounded a green and the meetinghouse.
• Shopkeepers and craftsmen relied on the farmers to make their living.
Check for UnderstandingA ask B: Why didn’t farmers in New
England grow cash crops?
Farmers in New England didn’t grow cash crops because the soil was too rocky and
the summers were too short.
Be sure to re-state the question in your response!
Fish and wood were among New England’s most valuable articles
of trade. • Some of the world’s best fishing
grounds lay off the coast of New England.
• Forests provided wood to build ships for fishing.
Whaling was another major New England industry.
A few bustling coastal cities, like Boston and New Haven, grew rich.
Their wealth was a result of shipbuilding, fishing, and trade.
Get your whiteboards and markers ready!
1. How did most people make a living in New England?
A. They practiced subsistence farming.B. They participated in the triangular
trade.C. They raised cash crops such as
tobacco or cotton.D. They mostly worked in factories.
Get your whiteboards and markers ready!
2. What three economic activities helped coastal cities in New
England grow rich?
A. ShipbuildingB. FishingC. ManufacturingD. Trade
Be sure to choose three!
Another source of wealth for New England was the triangular trade.
First, ships left New England with a cargo of rum and iron.
In Africa, the traders exchanged their cargo
for slaves.
The slaves then suffered
through a cruel trip to
the West Indies.
Slaves were needed there to do the difficult
work of cultivating and
harvesting sugar cane.
Slaves were crammed into the ships’ holds, where poor ventilation and human waste contributed to stench and disease.
Females were separated from the males, and often were abused by the crew.
As many as half the slaves on any ship died during this cruel ‘Middle
Passage.’
The slaves were traded
for sugar and
molasses, and the
ships took this cargo
back to New England.
Colonists there used the molasses to make more rum to trade for
slaves in Africa.
Check for Understanding
Be sure to re-state the question in your response!
The three essential parts of the triangular trade were rum,
slaves, and sugar and molasses.
B ask A: What trade items were the three essential parts of the triangular trade?
Slavery was not economical in this region of small farms in an area with
such a short growing season.
Some New Englanders in larger townsand cities did use slaves as
house servants, cooks,
gardeners, and stable-hands.
Some enslaved persons were able to save enough to buy their freedom.
In fact, New England was home to more free blacks than any other region.
A free black man in New England might become a merchant, sailor, printer, carpenter, or farmer. Still, whites did not treat free blacks as
equals.
Get your whiteboards and markers ready!
3. Why were there few slaves in New England?
A. The climate and crops in their region made slavery uneconomical.
B. They couldn't afford them.C. It was too easy for the slaves to
escape to freedom in Canada.D. Their Puritan religion taught that
slavery was ungodly.