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Work in Colonial America - Coggle Diagram

- - - - farmers raised a combination of animals and crops
      - many flour mills dotted the land
  - - - some grew food, but the main crop was tobacco
        
        the much of the work was done by indentured servants or slaves
  - - - families grew food on small plots of land
    - - anyone's sheep or cows could eat the grass there
      - on it was a meetinghouse
        
        center of religious and political life
  - - - they also took a great deal of labor
- - - - mainly tobacco and wheat
      - farther south, the cash crops were cotton, indigo, and rice
    - - but slaves did the actual planting and other work.
  - - - also the South had small family farms, but those families stayed poor
- - - - and so became centers of shipping and trade
  - - - carpenters, tailors, and blacksmiths formed the largest segment of the population of colonial cities
- - - - being unmarried was looked down upon
  - - - those who had some money and a way to keep earning could run their own lives
        
        many women chose to remarry
  - - - while men plowed fields, fed horses, built houses, and harvested crops