Economy: A Gift From Our Founding Fathers

   My group made a map which depicts the 13 colonies, their founding dates, and their primary economic exports. 

          One thing depicted on the map is that general farming occurs in all 13 colonies, which is important to understanding that there were no supermarkets where people can simply buy their food. People needed to make their own food. One obvious but important to understand fact is that most shipbuilding and ship supplies production happened along the coasts. Since transport was expensive and difficult, products were made where they would be used. Another interesting tidbit is that production occurred very heavily in the northern colonies like Massachusetts and Connecticut, which is explained by the fact that they were established earlier than southern colonies like Georgia and the Carolinas. Something odd to understand is why tobacco is produced heavily, centering around the Carolinas and Virginia. This may be because there is a large bay here, and because tobacco was so popular, it needed to be exported to other countries. These are only a few things which are detailed on our map.