Colonial Regions

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ColonialRegions

• Environment, Culture, and Migration.

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The Three Regions

• New England
• New Hampshire
• Massachusetts
• Connecticut
• Rhode Island
• Middle Colonies
• New York
• New Jersey
• Pennsylvania
• Delaware
• Southern Colonies
• Maryland
• Virginia
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Georgia

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New EnglandEconomy

• Subsistence Farming
• Growing only what you need
• Timber and Ship Building
• Fishing and Whaling
• Manufactured Goods
• Trading

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New EnglandSocial

• RELIGION
• Separatists/Pilgrims
• Puritans
• Strict religious rules
• Closed communities
• Intolerant of different ideas

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New EnglandPolitical

• GOVERNMENT
• Self-Governing Charters
• Town Meetings
• The Mayflower Compact
• The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
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New EnglandeNvironment

• GEOGRAPHY
• Mountainous
• Rocky, hard soil
• Very Short Growing Season (long cold winters)
• Bad for farming
• Large Forests
• Natural Harbors (on the Atlantic Ocean)

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Middle ColoniesEconomy

• Farmed Wheat, Oat, Barley and Rye
• Called the Bread Colonies
• Shipbuilding
• Skilled craftsmen
• Some trade

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Middle ColoniesSocial

• RELIGION
• Quakers
• German Baptists
• French Huguenots
• Portuguese Jews
• Dutch Mennonite (Amish)
• Lutherans
• Anglicans

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Middle ColoniesPolitical
New York

• GOVERNMENT
• Proprietary Charters
• Religious Freedom and Tolerance
• Freedom of the Press
• Strong Courts

Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
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Middle ColonieseNvironment

• GEOGRAPHY
• Plenty of waterways
• Rivers
• Lakes
• Warm summers and mild winters
• Long growing season
• Fertile soil

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Southern ColoniesEconomy

• Farmed Tobacco, Rice, Indigo, and Cotton.
• Grew cash crops on plantations
• Purchase manufactured goods.

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Southern ColoniesSocial

• English Plantation Owners, Indentured Servants,
  Transported Criminals, and Slaves
• Most Southern colonies focused on making a
  profit, not on religion
• Maryland religious freedom for Catholics
• Virginia Jamestown and tobacco
• North Carolina first English attempt at a colony
  (Roanoke)
• Georgia founded for debtors and prisoners
• Religious freedom Most were Anglican (Church of
  England)

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Southern ColoniesPolitical
Maryland
Virginia

• GOVERNMENT
• Joint-Stock and Proprietary Charters
• The House of Burgesses
• Colonies run for the profit of the Joint-Stock
  Company or Proprietors

North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
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Southern ColonieseNvironment

• GEOGRAPHY
• Fertile soil
• Long growing season and fertile land
• Cool winters and hot summers