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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

New England and other colonies

So the Question is In what ways did agriculture differ in the three colonial regions?

Well in New England they didn't have very good weather like very cold winter and short growing seasons and rugged landscape. But they did get to fish a lot and send the salted cod to Europe.

In the middle colonies the weather was better and they were able to grow large amounts of wheat that they got to trade with Europe. They were booming while New England was stagnated. New York and Philadelphia were two big seaports that prospered in the Middle colonies.

But in the South the weather was perfect and the growing seasons were long they got the most valuable profits and the did the best, they grew tobacco and wheat, which were staple crops which means that they were on high demand at that time.

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Cause and Effect of Jamestown

So the cause for Jamestown to be established was mostly from people wanting land, so like whoever paid for passage to Virginia or paid for someone else passage got 50 acres of land there to start plantations and the landowners imported people from England to come help them grow the plantations.


But the effect turned out to be a little bad. After so many people were coming to Virginia the land began to grow it went into the property of the Indians and they got mad and did a surprise attack on Jamestown and burned the plantations and killed one third of colonists!

Monday, October 1, 2018

New France

Their question - How did the battle at Lake Champlain change the methods used by the Iroquois to fight the French.

My answer - After they saw the French fighting with guns they changed their fighting tactics so instead of fighting in clumps they were more scattered and used trees as cover and fought by attacking then retreating under cover.

Their question - Why did New France attract few colonists.

My answer - Because there wasn't much opportunity beyond trading for deerskin with the Indians or raising poor quality tobacco it was also very swampy and diseases came from the swamps such as malaria and dysentery.