The colonial history of the United States covers the history from the start of European settlement and especially the history of the thirteen colonies of Britain until they declared independence in 1776. In the late 16th century, England, France, Spain and the Netherlands launched major colonization programs in eastern North America.[1] Many early attempts---notably the English Lost Colony of Roanoke---ended in failure, and everywhere the death rate of the first arrivals was very high, but key successful colonies were established. European settlers came from a variety of social and religious groups, including children without their parents.. No aristocrats settled permanently, but a number of adventurers, soldiers, farmers, and tradesmen arrived. Ethnic diversity was an American characteristic as the Dutch of New Netherland, the Swedes and Finns of New Sweden, the English Quakers of Pennsylvania, the English Puritans of New England, the English settlers of Jamestown, and the "worthy poor" of Georgia, came to the new continent and built colonies with distinctive social, religious, political and economic styles. Occasionally one colony took control of another (during wars between their European parents), but unlike in Nova Scotia they did not expel the previous inhabitants, but instead lived side by side in peace. There were no major civil wars among the 13 colonies, and the two chief armed rebellions (in Virginia and New York) were short-lived failures.
The four distinct regions were: New England, the Middle Colonies, the Chesapeake Bay Colonies (Upper South) and the Lower South. Some historians add a fifth region, the frontier, which was never separately organized.[1] By the time European settlers arrived around 1600-1650, the majority of the Native Americans living in the eastern United States had been decimated by new diseases, introduced to them decades before by explorers and sailors.[2]
FARMING!!
Two jobs were blacksmithing or farming
Farming
Large families and more immigrants came to the colonies.
gunpowder
90% of the colonies were in farming. The other 10% were merchants, sailors, professional people, and manufacturing.
turnips.
in the 1700s the new England colonies mainly had subsistence farming because of harsh climates and rocky soil. but in the 1800s the industrial revolution happened so many new England colonist became factory workers.
The population of the 13 colonies in the mid 1700s was about 2.5 million.
FARMING!!
The German Lutherans came to the Middle Colonies in the 1700's to work in the timber industry. They also came because they were promised land. They had heard that the land there was good for farming.
The colonial regions in the 1700s were the New England Colonies, the Middle Colonies, the Southern Colonies, and the Back Country. The Back Country was near the Appalachian Mountains.
the weather of the middle colonies did not affect their farming because the farming was perfect for there farming and soil that's why they were soon named the breadbasket colonies!
Two jobs were blacksmithing or farming
Farming
Large families and more immigrants came to the colonies.
gunpowder