What did the colonist do for a living?

1. What did the colonies do for a living?
2. How does a colonist make a living?
3. How did the colonists make money?
4. Where did the colonists live?
5. What did colonists do for work in the southern colonies?
6. What did the colonists bring to America?
7. What was it like to live in the colonies?
8. What did the colonists use for money?
9. What were the Southern colonies known for?
10. What was the most important job in the colonial times?
11. What were the colonists opinions of the British?
12. How did the southern colonies make a living?
13. How did settlers in the southern colonies survive and make money?
14. What was USD before dollar?

What did the colonies do for a living?

Most of the people living in Colonial America lived and worked on a farm. Although there would eventually be large plantations where the owners became wealthy growing cash crops, life for the average farmer was very hard work. They had to work hard all year long just to survive.

How does a colonist make a living?

To earn a living, planters grew some type of cash crop that could be sold for money or credit in order to buy needed tools, livestock, and household goods which could not be produced on the farm. Before the American Revolution, tobacco was the crop most Virginians grew and sold to English and Scottish merchants.

How did the colonists make money?

Their economy was based on trading, lumbering,fishing, whaling, shipping, fur trading (forest animals) and ship building.

Where did the colonists live?

They settled into 13 colonies, areas that are now the states known as New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maryland, Georgia, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Delaware.

What did colonists do for work in the southern colonies?

Most colonists lived on small family farms, but some owned large plantations that produced cash crops such as tobacco and rice. Many slaves worked on plantations.

What did the colonists bring to America?

They brought supplies.

In the holds of their ships, the early settlers brought axes, shovels, hammers, nails, other tools, pigs, cows, sheep, goats, seed from English plants, and as many personal belongings as they could afford. They were reasonably well equipped to start a new life in the wilderness.

What was it like to live in the colonies?

Much of colonial life was hard work, even preparing food. But colonists found ways to mix work with play. They also enjoyed sports and games. For most of the 1700s, the colonists were content to be ruled by English laws.

What did the colonists use for money?

When the colonies did not have metal to coin, they frequently used paper money. Most colonial notes were "bills of credit" notes meant to be redeemable in coin. Colonial paper money rarely lasted very long because the colonies generally issued too much of it and the resulting inflation made the bills worthless.

What were the Southern colonies known for?

The Southern colonies were noted for plantations, or large farms, and for the use of slaves to work on them. The English were the first Europeans to settle the Southern colonies. In 1606 an expedition of colonists sailed from England to the New World.

What was the most important job in the colonial times?

Colonial Americans were primarily farmers. Every family was expected to be self-sufficient—capable of growing crops and raising livestock for food. In addition, they spun their own thread and wool to make their clothes. They often made their own soap and candles.

What were the colonists opinions of the British?

Many colonists felt that they should not pay these taxes, because they were passed in England by Parliament, not by their own colonial governments. They protested, saying that these taxes violated their rights as British citizens. The colonists started to resist by boycotting, or not buying, British goods.

How did the southern colonies make a living?

The Southern Colonies had an agricultural economy. Most colonists lived on small family farms, but some owned large plantations that produced cash crops such as tobacco and rice. Many slaves worked on plantations.

How did settlers in the southern colonies survive and make money?

The southern colonies' economy was based on agriculture (farming). ... The cash crops of the southern colonies included cotton, tobacco, rice, and indigo (a plant that was used to create blue dye). In Virginia and Maryland, the main cash crop was tobacco.

What was USD before dollar?

The first paper money issued by the government were "demand notes" commonly referred to as "greenbacks." In 1862, Congress retired the demand notes and began issuing United States notes, also called legal tender notes.