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AP U.S. History Exam 1.5. What might have replaced tobacco had the excerpt been written by the governor of a middle colony?
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- 00:00
[ musical flourish ]
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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by middle colonies,
- 00:05
the ones who always feel left out and neglected.
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All right, first up, the excerpt.
- 00:10
[ mumbles ]
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- 00:14
[ mumbling continues ]
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All right, and now the question:
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What might have replaced tobacco had the excerpt
- 00:24
been written by the governor of a middle colony?
- 00:27
And here are your potential answers.
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[ mumbles ] All right.
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Well, let's take a look at a map of the 13 colonies. Right here.
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Well, you've got your southern colonies here,
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your middle colonies here...
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and your New England colonies here.
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And we need to figure out which answer was all the rage
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in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
- 00:49
If the governor of a middle colony wrote this excerpt,
- 00:52
would tobacco have been replaced by A -
- 00:56
manufacturing and overseas trade?
- 00:59
Hmm? Well, actually, the English colonies were mostly
- 01:02
supplying raw materials at this time,
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and most of the overseas trade went through New England,
- 01:07
which was the center of ship building and commercial fishing.
- 01:10
So that sinks A and C.
- 01:12
Could the middle colonies have been focused on D -
- 01:15
hunting, trapping, and fur trading?
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Well, while the English were busy adapting to their new homeland,
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the French colonists were busy trapping and trading fur.
- 01:24
So that's au revoir to D, as well.
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See ya.
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Which means that tobacco would have been replaced in the middle colonies by B -
- 01:32
cereal crops such as wheat and grain.
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It wasn't easy to grow tobacco in every corner of
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the Eastern seaboard, and those middle colonies,
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well, they were best suited for crops like wheat and grain.
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So B is the right answer.
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Eventually, the United States expanded westward and settlers
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planted wheat and grain all across the Midwest,
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loosening the bread belt, so to speak,
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for those middle colonies.
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Yeah. Step up, boys.
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[ rim shot ]
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