colonial regions environment, culture, and migration

ColonialColonialRegionsRegions

Environment, Culture, and Migration.

The Three Regions New England

New Hampshire

Massachusetts

Connecticut

Rhode Island

Middle ColoniesNew York

New Jersey

Pennsylvania

Delaware

Southern ColoniesMaryland

Virginia

North Carolina

South Carolina

Georgia

Subsistence Farming– Growing only what

you need Timber and Ship

Building Fishing and Whaling Manufactured Goods Trading

New EnglandEconomy

New EnglandSocial

RELIGIONSeparatists/PilgrimsPuritansStrict religious rulesClosed communities

– Intolerant of different ideas

GOVERNMENTSelf-Governing ChartersTown MeetingsThe Mayflower CompactThe Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

New EnglandPolitical

Massachusetts

New Hampshire

Connecticut Rhode Island

New EnglandeNvironment

GEOGRAPHYMountainousRocky, hard soil

– Very Short Growing Season (long cold winters)

• Bad for farming

Large ForestsNatural Harbors (on the Atlantic Ocean)

Farmed Wheat, Oat, Barley and Rye– Called the “Bread

Colonies”

Shipbuilding Skilled craftsmen Some trade

Middle ColoniesEconomy

RELIGIONQuakersGerman BaptistsFrench HuguenotsPortuguese JewsDutch Mennonite (Amish)LutheransAnglicans

Middle ColoniesSocial

GOVERNMENTProprietary ChartersReligious Freedom and ToleranceFreedom of the PressStrong Courts

Middle ColoniesPolitical

New York

Pennsylvania

New Jersey

Delaware

Middle ColonieseNvironment

GEOGRAPHYPlenty of waterways

– Rivers– Lakes

Warm summers and mild wintersLong growing seasonFertile soil

Farmed Tobacco, Rice, Indigo, and Cotton.

Grew “cash crops” on plantations

Purchase manufactured goods.

Southern ColoniesEconomy

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)

GOVERNMENTJoint-Stock and Proprietary ChartersThe House of BurgessesColonies run for the profit of the Joint-Stock Company or Proprietors

Southern ColoniesPolitical Maryland

Virginia

North Carolina

South Carolina

Georgia

GEOGRAPHY Fertile soil Long growing season

and fertile land Cool winters and hot

summers

Southern ColonieseNvironment