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The English Colonies
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The early settlements

• English method of colonization utilized
  joint-stock companies
• How was this different from the Spanish?
• First settlement is in 1607, Jamestown
• For profitability they neglected farming and went
  looking for gold, silver copper
• By 1612 Jamestown is saved by the introduction of
  tobacco (and new colonists)

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Formation of the 13 colonies

• B/c of profitability of tobacco there was a great
  increase in the demand for labor
• Indentured servants became the major source of
  immigration to the New World
• More more colonies began to grow
• Spread throughout the Eastern seaboard
• Separated into 3 distinct areas

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• Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts (Maine),
  New Hampshire (Vermont was claimed by New York
  New Hampshire).

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New England Colonies

• Founded for religious freedom (more later)
• Industry Ship building, shipping, fishing,
  lumber, rum, meat products, livestock, trade,
  iron foundries, snuff

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• Includes New York, Delaware, New Jersey
  Pennsylvania

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Middle/Chesapeake Colonies

• Dutch were the first to settle this area, New
  Netherland, capital - New Amsterdam
• Trade, foodstuffs, fur, wheat, glass, shoes,
  livestock, shipping, shipbuilding, rum, flax,
  copper, beer and snuff

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Middle Colonies - Pennsylvania

• William Penns father helped the King restore his
  throne, in thanks gave land
• Penn belonged to Society of Friends aka Quakers
  dressed plainly, opposed war, refused to serve in
  military, refused to defer to persons of rank.
• Pennsylvania became a haven to those who were
  rejected, everyone welcome!

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• Included Virginia, Maryland, North South
  Carolina, and Georgia.

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Southern Colonies

• Georgia had been formed to help English poor, few
  debtors met strict requirements
• 1760 European pop 6,000 people
• Mainly served as a buffer to Spanish Florida
• Tobacco, rice, indigo, naval supplies, furs,
  wheat, lumber, iron, silk, cattle snuff

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The 13 Colonies

• By the 1750s the British crown had assumed more
  direct control over colonial economies and
  governments
• The colonies existed primarily for the benefit of
  the mother-country
• Colonies exported raw materials an in return they
  imported manufactured goods