USI.5b: Colonial RegionsUSI.5b: Colonial Regions

Social Studies Instructional SpecialistPortsmouth Public Schools

Essential KnowledgeEssential KnowledgeLife in the colonies reflected the

geographical features of the settlements.

Economic specialization and interdependence existed in the production of goods and services in the colonies.

Essential QuestionsEssential QuestionsHow did climate and geographic

features and other available resources distinguish the three regions from each other?

How did people use the natural resources of their region to earn a living?

What are the benefits of specialization and trade?

How did political and social life evolve in each of the three regions?

Economic TermsEconomic TermsResources: natural, capital, humanSpecialization: focusing on one or

more productsInterdependence: two or more

people depending on each other for goods and services.

Specialization made the colonies interdependent.

Colonial RegionsColonial RegionsThe three colonial

regions are:New England (New

Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut)

Middle/Mid-Atlantic (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware)

Southern (Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia)

New England: ResourcesNew England: ResourcesNatural

resources: timber, fish, deep harbors

New England: ResourcesNew England: ResourcesHuman

resources: skilled craftsmen, shopkeepers, shipbuilders

Candle maker

New England: Geography New England: Geography and Climateand Climate

Appalachian Mountains, Boston Harbor, hilly terrain, rocky soil, jagged coastline.

Moderate summers, cold winters

New England: Geography New England: Geography and Climateand Climate

Boston Harbor

New England: Geography New England: Geography and Climateand Climate

New England: New England: SpecializationSpecializationFishing,

shipbuilding, industry, naval supplies

What items would be needed to supplyships? (Food, weapons, ammunition,clothing, soap, etc. These items arepart of the naval supplies industry.)

New England: New England: SpecializationSpecialization

New England: Examples of New England: Examples of InterdependenceInterdependenceNew England

depended on the Southern colonies for raw materials such as cotton and on the Middle Colonies for grain and livestock.

New England: Social/Political New England: Social/Political and Civic Lifeand Civic Life

Social/Political: Village and church as the center of life. Religious reformers and separatists.

Civic Life: Town meetings

New England: Social/Political New England: Social/Political and Civic Lifeand Civic Life

In the New England communities, if you did not belong to the village church, you were excluded from town meetings and votes. Many times the leader of the church led the village.

Town hall

Church

Mid Atlantic: ResourcesMid Atlantic: ResourcesNatural

resources: rich farmlands, rivers.

Mid Atlantic: ResourcesMid Atlantic: ResourcesHuman

resources: unskilled and skilled workers, fishermen.

Mid Atlantic: Geography and Mid Atlantic: Geography and ClimateClimateAppalachian

Mountains, coastal lowlands, harbors and bays, wide and deep rivers.

Mild winters and moderate climate.

Mid Atlantic: Mid Atlantic: Specialization Specialization

Livestock, grain, fish.

Mid Atlantic: Examples of Mid Atlantic: Examples of InterdependenceInterdependenceThe Mid Atlantic

colonies traded with both New England and Southern colonies to get the products they did not produce.

Mid Atlantic: Social/Political Mid Atlantic: Social/Political and Civic Lifeand Civic Life

Social/Political: villages and cities varied; diverse lifestyles, diverse religions.

Civic Life: Market towns

Market town

South: ResourcesSouth: ResourcesNatural

resources: fertile land, rivers, harbors.

South: ResourcesSouth: ResourcesHuman

resources: farmers, enslaved African Americans

South: SpecializationSouth: SpecializationTobacco, cotton, indigo, wood

products.

Indigo Cotton

South: SpecializationSouth: Specialization

Tobacco Wood products

South: Examples of South: Examples of InterdependenceInterdependenceThe Southern

colonies depended on the New England colonies for manufactured goods, including tools and equipment.

South: Social/Political and South: Social/Political and Civic LifeCivic Life

Social/Political: Plantations, slavery, mansions, indentured servants, few cities, few schools, Church of England.

Civic Life: counties