Most settlers in every North American colony …
Years: 1540 - 1683
Most settlers in every North American colony are small farmers, but other industries develop within a few decades as varied as the settlements.
Cash crops include tobacco, rice and wheat.
Extraction industries develop in furs, fishing and lumber.
Manufacturers produce rum and ships, and Americans are producing one-seventh of the world's iron supply by the late colonial period.
Cities eventually dot the coast to support local economies and serve as trade hubs.
English colonists are supplemented by waves of Scots-Irish and other groups.
Freed indentured servants push further west as coastal land grows more expensive.
Cash crops include tobacco, rice and wheat.
Extraction industries develop in furs, fishing and lumber.
Manufacturers produce rum and ships, and Americans are producing one-seventh of the world's iron supply by the late colonial period.
Cities eventually dot the coast to support local economies and serve as trade hubs.
English colonists are supplemented by waves of Scots-Irish and other groups.
Freed indentured servants push further west as coastal land grows more expensive.
Groups
- Jews
- English people
- Protestantism
- England, (Stuart) Kingdom of
- Ulster Scots people (Scots-Irish)
- Virginia (English Colony)
- Newfoundland (English Colony)
- New Netherland (Dutch Colony)
- Plymouth Council for New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony (sometimes called the Massachusetts Bay Company, for its founding institution)
- Maryland, Province of (English Colony)
- New Haven Colony (English)
- New Sweden (Swedish Colony)
- New England Confederation (United Colonies of New England)
- Rhode Island (English Colony)
- England, Commonwealth of
- England, (Stewart, Restored) Kingdom of
- Connecticut (English Crown Colony)
- Carolina, Province of (English Colony)
- Rhode Island and Providence Plantation, English Crown Colony of
- New York, Province of (English Colony)
- Delaware Bay, Lower Counties on the (English Colony)
- New Jersey (English Colony)
- New Netherland (Dutch Colony, restored)
- New Hampshire (English Crown Colony)
Topics
Commodoties
- Fish and game
- Hides and feathers
- Grains and produce
- Strategic metals
- Beer, wine, and spirits
- Lumber
- Land
- Tobacco
