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What is agriculture?
• Farming• Growing crops and raising animals
Farmers Lives in the
New England Colonies
From: McCabe, James D. The Pictorial History of the United States. Philadelphia: The National Publishing Company, 1877.
Postcard showing Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1622, with buildings identified.W.L. Williams, c 1901
Rock Walls in New England
Cold winters made farming hard in the New England colonies.
CornCommon Crop in the New England Colony
Farmers Lives in the
Middle Colonies
This painting, entitled "The Residence of David Twining, 1787," depicts a farm in Bucks County, Pa. (Oil (1845-48) by Edward Hicks. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection,
Colonial Williamsburg.)
WheatCommon Crop in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies
The Mid-Atlantic colonies grew so much wheat that they were called “the breadbasket” colonies.
Farming and wheat processing was often done near rivers.
Why?
Farmers Lives in the
Southern Colonies
Tobacco being harvested in the Virginia Colony. Source: Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 10) (New York: Harper and
Brothers, 1912)
Life of George Washington--The Farmer Painted by Stearns ; lith. by Régnier, imp. Lemercier, Paris. C 1853
South Carolina Rice Plantation
Small Southern Farms
Large Southern Plantations
A plantation is a very large farm.
RiceA common crop in the Southern Colonies
Indigo Plant
Fabric Dyed with Indigo
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