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Economics for test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Southern colonies depended on what? | Agriculture |
| What did the southern colonies export? | Wood and Tar |
| What was one main agricultural job? | To work on a farm and grow cash crops which are crops that are sold. Ex. indigo, tobacco, and rice |
| What helped the farmers to work faster? | they used slaves |
| What did most southern colonies do? | They passed slave codes. |
| What did the N.E. colonies depend on? | trade, fishing, hunting, shipbuilding, and skilled working. |
| What did they hunt for? | Whales, cod, mackeral, and halibut |
| What did familes do? | they sent younger sons to learn to become a skilled crafts person. |
| What did the southern colines trade? | pork, furs, and beef |
| What did the sothern colonies work at? | A blacksmith, weaving, snd printing |
| What did farmers grow in the middle colonies? | They grew staple crops |
| What did slaves work as in the middle colonies? | They worked as blacksmiths and carpenter |
| What else was important for the middle colonies? | trade |
| What role did women play? | Woman ran farms, and buisnesses |
| What were the cash crops in the middle colonines? | wheat, barley, oats, and corn |