Colonial Economy
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| New England Colonies Common Jobs | Shipbuilders, fishing, timber
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| Middle Colony Common Jobs | Shippers of crops and furs, Staple crops, merchants
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| Southern Colony Common Jobs | Necessities were imported
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| Staple Crops | Wheat, barley, oat, crops that are continually in demand
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| Common Jobs Throughout All The Colonies | Planting small farms, self-sufficiency, fur trapping and trading, the making of soap, yarn, clothes, and candles
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| Cash Crops | Tobacco, rice, indigo
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| Indentured Servants | People placed under a contract to work for another person for seven years
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| Slaves | a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant
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| Economy | The science that deals with production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, or the material welfare of humankind
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| Production | Make something
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| Distribution | Selling
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| Consumption | Buying
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| Goods | Products
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| Services | Actions to help someone else.
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| Why did the use of indentured servants die off? | People are dying before the end of 4-7 years that they had to work.
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| Mercantilism | The British were able to maintain their wealth by controlling who the colonies traded with.
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