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Colonial Regions

Colonial Regions. Environment, Culture, and Migration. 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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Colonial Regions

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  1. ColonialRegions Environment, Culture, and Migration.

  2. 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

  3. Subsistence Farming Growing only what you need Timber and Ship Building Fishing and Whaling Manufactured Goods Trading New EnglandEconomy

  4. New EnglandSocial RELIGION • Separatists/Pilgrims • Puritans • Strict religious rules • Closed communities • Intolerant of different ideas

  5. GOVERNMENT Self-Governing Charters Town Meetings The Mayflower Compact The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut New EnglandPolitical New Hampshire Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island

  6. 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)

  7. Farmed Wheat, Oat, Barley and Rye Called the “Bread Colonies” Shipbuilding Skilled craftsmen Some trade Middle ColoniesEconomy

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

  9. GOVERNMENT Proprietary Charters Religious Freedom and Tolerance Freedom of the Press Strong Courts Middle ColoniesPolitical New York Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware

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

  11. Farmed Tobacco, Rice, Indigo, and Cotton. Grew “cash crops” on plantations Purchase manufactured goods. Southern ColoniesEconomy

  12. 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)

  13. GOVERNMENT Joint-Stock and Proprietary Charters The House of Burgesses Colonies run for the profit of the Joint-Stock Company or Proprietors Southern ColoniesPolitical Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia

  14. GEOGRAPHY Fertile soil Long growing season and fertile land Cool winters and hot summers Southern ColonieseNvironment

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