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1. Life in Colonial America
1607-1775
• By: Sara Iveth Molina

2. A Land of Variety
• Variety of peoples
• Diversity of Churches

3. Variety Of Peoples
• America Colonial Era(1607 to 1775) lasted more tan 150
• In this time America became a land of great variety,
• Greatest Number of Settlers were the English, the next were the Scots-Irsh
and the Germans

4. Diversity of Churches
• America was also a land of many churches
• Religion played an important role in every colony
• The American colonies offered more religious freedom than anywhere else in
the world

5. The Livelihood of the Colonies
• The importance of the agriculture
• Colonial Industry
• A Thriving Commerce
• The Triangular Trade

6. The Importance Of Agriculture
• At least 90% of the colonist depended on farming for their livelihood
• New England was the region at least suited for agriculture
• Middle Colonies were called ¨Bread Colonies¨
• Southern Colonies enjoyed fertile soil , a warm climate an a long growing
season , they became prominent for the growing of export crops.

7. Colonial Industry
• Each colony had great potential for manufacturing and trade.
• Lumber Industry New England abounded with trees and thus developed a triving
Lumber business.
• Shipbuilding plentiful forest lands supplied the shipbuildings industry
• Fishing and Whaling Fishing a popular industry throughout the colonies, was
specially valuable in the cold Atlantic Waters off the coast of New England
• Fur Trading on the Frontier:. Fur Trading was also an important source of income
along the entire colonial frontier
• Other Colonial Industries

8. Thriving Commerce
• By the end of the 17th century, the colonists had developed a thriving ocean
commerce

9. Triangular Trade
• Ships sailing from the New England colonies usually stopped at two distant
ports before returning to New England

10. Colonial Culture