colonial economy vocabulary

What is this?

• lumber

• plantation

• fishing

• merchant

What is this?

• wheat

• lumber

• farm

• indigo

What is this?

• farming

• mining

• whaling

What is this?

• timber

• lumber

• wheat

• whaling

What do you call people who made money buying and selling things?

• fishermen

• merchants

• assemblies

• lumberjacks

In New England this was an important part of the economy.

• whaling

• shipbuilding

• lumber

• farming

Some colonial traders made money with...

• timber

• farming

• fur

• wheat

What is this?

• iron ore

• wheat

• cattle

• dinner

Some colonists made money in the

• slave trade

• mining trade

• shipbuilding business

• whaling

Rich ____ is important for farming.

• lumber

• rye

• soil

• water