1. Life in the 13
colonies

2. Life in the 13 colonies
 Colonial agriculture, forestry, and
fishery
 Colonial food and clothes
 Colonial religion
 Colonial education
 Colonial trade

3. 13 Colonies
New England
Colonies
The Middle
Colonies
The Southern
Colonies

4. Colonial agriculture, forestry, and
fishery
New England colonies
Long & cold winter, and rocky soil: difficult to
grow food→ short growing season
Subsistence farming: farmers produced enough
food for the family’s own needs.
Cutting down trees to build houses, ships, etc…
Fishing, hunting whales and other animals

5. Colonial agriculture, forestry,
and fishery
Middle colonies
Mild climate, rich soil,
long deep rivers→ long
growing season.
Farmer produced more
food: grain and meat to
feed themselves & to
export
Breadbasket colonies:
produced so much
grain.

6. Colonial agriculture, forestry,
and fishery
Southern colonies
Warmer weather than the
others, mild winters.
Large area of flat with
very rich soil
→nearly grow crops
throughout the year.
3 cash crops: tobaco,
rice, & indigo

7. Colonial food & clothes
What did they eat? What did they wear?

8. What did they
eat?
Ate lots of grain,
seafood(lobsters,
clams…)
animals(rabbits,
squirrels, bears,
deers…)
Drank more than we do
now: water, milk, cider
or tea

9. What did they wear?
A mob cap
A gown

10. What did they wear?
waistcoa
t
breeches

11. .
Colonial religion
New England colonists were Puritans and they
were very strict about worshiping in church.
The Middle colonists were a mixture of religion:
Quakers, Catholics, and Jews.
The Southern colonies also had a mixture of religions
including Baptist and Anglicans

12. Colonial education
A hornbook

13. Colonial education
 Parents wanted their children to learn how to read
and write the Bible.
 Some children went to school and some didn‘t.
 The schools had only one room and the children
had to sit on hard benches.
 One teacher taught all of the children of every
grade level.
 The children learned from hornbooks.
 The first school was a Dame School.
 Girls did not go to school very long. They should
know how to care for the house, spin and cook.

14. Colonial trade
 They sold what they
produced and bought what
they did not produce.
 Goods came from two
main sourses: Europe and
Africa. This came to be
known as ‘triangular-
trade’.
 Slavers who were brought
from Africa were viewed
as goods or properties, not
human beings.

15. Colonial trade
Slavery
shackles

16. Conclusion
 The diversity of the 13 colonies
offered a great deal of economic
possibilities to the British Empire.
 It would also give the 13 colonies the
wealth needed to start becoming a
country.