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Colonial Life: Regional Economies and Labor Systems

4th Grade · Social Studies · US-MA-SS

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Compare the geographic environments, economic systems, and forms of labor across the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies.

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us-ma5.T1.4Massachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

On a map of the United States, locate the first 13 colonies and describe the impact of regional differences in climate on the types of crops that could be grown or harvested profitably in the Northern, mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies; describe varied sources of labor (e.g., self-employed colonists, apprentices, employees, indentured servants, free and enslaved Africans).