Middle produces: breadbasket crops, wheat
South produces: indigo, tobacco, rice
The soil in the New England colonies was poor, so many colonists turned to fishing.
Some goods from the Middle colonies were shipped from the port city of Philadelphia.
On the large plantations in the South, most of the work was done by enslaved workers.
In the Southern colonies, an important port for shipping goods was Charleston.
Frontier women had to know how to hunt.
Two types of southern colonies economies: large plantations in the east where slaves are used
small farms in the west where slaves are not used
Triangular trade: goods go to Africa from colonies
slaves go to West Indies from Africa
slaves that left over go to colonies
Women had few rights.
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