Question | Answer |
In the Colonial Period, percentage of colonists who made their living through farming | 90% |
Bread Basket | Middle colonies |
Primary grain grown in the Middle Colonies | wheat |
Tools used bycolonial farmers | spades, sickles, hoes, plows |
The region of the colonjies which had the worst soil and the longesrt growing season | New England |
The region of the colonies with the best soil and the longest growing season | Southern Coloniws |
Region of the American colonies known as the bread basket | Middle Colonies |
In the Colonial period where most American farmeers lived | Atlantic Coastal Plain |
Ways Colonial farmers improved their farmland | 1. Rotated their crops--plant different crops every tear
2. Added fertilizer to the soil |
Two most important economic activities in the New England Colonies | fishing and shipbuilding |
cropsraised to be sold | cash crop |
Where rice was a cash crop | Georgia and South Carolina |
Blue dye | Indigo |
Used a metal alloy, consisting mostly of tin, to make cheap household utensils | pewterer |
made barrels | cooper |
forged iron into various items | blacksmith |
turned animal skins into leather | tanner |
schooners, brigs, sloops | types of ships |
builder of ships | shipwright |
grinds grain into flour | miller |
turned valuable metal into bowls, candlesticks, coffee pots, tea services, and flatware | silversmith |
made candles | chandler |
built furniture from wood | joiner |
made two-wheeled vehicles used in transportation | cartwright |