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Colonial Regions: Environment, Culture, and Migration

Explore the three colonial regions of New England, Middle Colonies, and Southern Colonies and their unique environments, cultures, and patterns of migration. Learn about the government, products, and people that shaped each region's development.

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Colonial Regions: Environment, Culture, and Migration

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  1. ColonialRegions Environment, Culture, and Migration.

  2. The Three Regions • New England • Middle Colonies • Southern Colonies

  3. New EnglandEnvironment • Northern Eastern Woodlands • Very Short Growing Season • Long Cold Winters • Large Forests • On the Atlantic Ocean

  4. Self-Governing Charters Town Meetings The Mayflower Compact The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut New EnglandGovernment New Hampshire Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island

  5. PRODUCTS Subsistence Farming Timber and Ship Building Supplies (Rope, Masts, Tar) Dried Fish Rum and other Manufactured Trade Goods PEOPLE Puritans and Pilgrims who believed in working hard and following strict rules. Merchants, Manufacturers, and Lawyers. New EnglandCulture

  6. Pilgrims and the Puritans

  7. Proprietary Charters Religious Freedom and Tolerance Freedom of the Press Strong Courts Middle ColoniesGovernment New York Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware

  8. Middle ColoniesEnvironment • Lower Eastern Woodlands • Medium growing season and cold winters. • Many lakes and rivers for transportation.

  9. PRODUCTS Called the Bread Colonies Farmed Wheat, Oat, Barley and Rye. Made homespun products. Traded very little. PEOPLE People from: England, the Netherlands, France, Germany and others. Puritans , Quakers (PENN), Anglicans, Catholics, and Jews. Middle ColoniesCulture

  10. Quakers

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

  12. ENVIRONMENT Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains. Long growing season and fertile land. Warm for most of the year PRODUCTS Farmed Tobacco, Rice, Indigo, and Cotton. Trade “cash crops” farmed on Plantations. Purchase manufactured goods. Southern ColoniesEnvironment & Culture

  13. Southern ColoniesCulture • Anglicans • English Plantation Owners, Indentured Servants, Transported Criminals, and Slaves.

  14. Southern Plantation

  15. A laborer under contract to work for an employer for a specific amount of time to pay off a passage to a new country. Young men without a family. Employer provided: food, clothing, housing, and training. Skilled workers 4-7 years example: metal workers or farmers. Unskilled workers 7+ years. Contract complete they were free to go. Indentured Servants

  16. Told how long they were to work. What they would get after working. Money Land Free to leave at the end. Indentured Servant Contract

  17. Great Plague reduced number of men able and willing to work and live in Colonies. Large fire in London that burned down nearly the entire city. Jobs were created during the rebuilding period. Decline in Indentured Servants

  18. New Workers Needed • Decline in Indentured Servants. • Africans were brought over in larger numbers to work the fields. • Africans were chosen because they were able to resist diseases that Native Americans could not. • Triangular Trade

  19. Slave Trade

  20. Triangular Trade

  21. Colonial Life for Women • Women took care of home and children as well as work with men when needed. • Women lost all property in marriage.

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