Cities, Towns, and Farms
Chapter 6 Lesson 2
City Life
Ben Franklin lived in the city of Philadelphia
because he wanted to be a printer.
Franklin needed to be in a city busy with
people who would buy his papers.
Philadelphia was a harbor town on the
Delaware River rich with people of many
different backgrounds.
By the middle 1700’s, Philadelphia was the
largest city in the 13 colonies.
(Read - Making of the 13 Colonies Haikum pages 101-104)
City Life
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Cities had:
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Large Populations
Diverse cultures and religions
Many artisans and tradesmen
Businesses
Homes
Ports or Waterways
Churches
Government Buildings
Towns
Towns were smaller than cities, but they
were self-sufficient.
 Families owned houses and small plots of
land to farm and grazed livestock.
 Workshops were located in town where
the blacksmith, cooper, and shoemaker
worked and lived.
 The meeting house was the most
important building in town.
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Southern Plantations
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Large farms that were their own towns.
Plantations usually grew cash crops
Plantation owners were wealthy men who
hired others to run the plantation for them.
This manager was called the overseer.
African slaves were brought in to work in
the fields.
Plantations could have a school, blacksmith,
stables, slave quarters, workshops, and
houses for the overseer and slaves.
Read the Textbook
Open your book to page 210
 Read lesson 2 with a partner
 Complete the lesson 2 review questions
in your social studies spiral
 Next, you will complete workbook page
53.
 Turn in page 53 and silently read lesson 3.
You will decide which notes to write in
your spiral as you read.
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