The Breadbasket Colonies

1. Warm-Up
1. What document did the Mayflower Compact lay
the foundation for?
2. If you had a choice would you rather setup a
colony that produced popular and profitable cash
crops to sell or establish shipping ports and be a
center of trade?

2. The Breadbasket
Colonies
The Middle Colonies

4. The Middle Colonies
• Based on information you know about the
economies of the Southern Colonies and New
England Colonies- Question:
• What kind of economic activities would we expect to
find in the Middle Colonies?

5. William Penn’s Dream

6. Warm-Up
• New England Colonies had plenty of forests. How
does this fact connect to the economic importance
of shipbuilding to the region?