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Economic Industries
A StudyStack about the major economic industries of the 13 colonies.
Question | Answer |
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What were the major economic industries in the colony of Massachusetts Plymouth/Bay? | Whaling, fishing, corn, livestock, lumbering, shipbuilding, and rum exports. |
What were the major economic industries in the colony of New Hampshire? | Potatoes, fishing, textiles, shipbuilding, rum exports, and whaling. |
What were the major economic industries in the colony of Rhode Island? | Livestock, dairy, fishing, lumbering, brewing/distilling, rum exports, and whaling. |
What were the major economic industries in the colony of Connecticut? | Wheat, corn, fishing, livestock, shipbuilding, rum exports, and whaling. |
What were the major economic industries in the colony of New York? | Shipbuilding, iron works, cattle, grain, corn, rice, indigo, wheat, and ironworks such as plows, tools, kettles, locks, nails and large blocks of iron. |
What were the major economic industries in the colony of Delaware? | Fishing, lumbering, indigo, wheat, grain, rice, iron ore products such as plows, tools, kettles, locks, nails and large blocks of iron |
What were the major economic industries in the colony of New Jersey? | Cattle, grain, wheat, iron working, lumbering, wheat, grain, indigo, rice, and iron ore products. |
What were the major economic industries in the colony of Pennsylvania? | Wheat, corn, cattle, dairy, textiles, paper-making, shipbuilding, and animal furs. |
What were the major economic industries in the colony of Virginia? | Plantations (Southern farms with slave labor), tobacco, wheat, and corn. |
What were the major economic industries in the colony of Maryland? | Cotton, iron works, corn, wheat, rice, indigo, and tobacco. |
What were the major economic industries in the colony of North Carolina? | Tobacco, sugar, indigo, cotton, rice, and other crops. |
What were the major economic industries in the colony of South Carolina? | Indigo, cotton, rice, cattle, tobacco, and sugar. |
What were the major economic industries in the colony of Georgia? | Sugar, agricultural plantations, indigo, cotton, tobacco, lumbering, animal furs, rice, and farm products. |