Regional Characteristics of the 13 ENGLISH COLONIES

NEW ENGLAND SETTLERS – Pilgrims, Puritans, and Former MA Puritans who moved to RI and CT REASONS FOR SETTLEMENT – Escape England’s religious persecution – To set up settlements with Religious freedom apart from MA Puritans (in RI and CT) CLIMATE & GEOGRAPHY (review from Monday) – cold winters, rocky soil, seacoast, woodlands forested hills

NEW ENGLAND ECONOMY – crop and livestock farming (subsistence farming) – Lumbering and shipbuilding – Fishing and whaling RELIGION – Puritan – Various faiths (those who left the MA Puritans) GOVERNMENT – Self-governing Mayflower Compact, (written document describing how they’d govern themselves) and The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (a written constitution)

MIDDLE COLONIES SETTLERS – Dutch and English – English Quakers (William Penn) REASONS FOR SETTLEMENT – To make money – To safely practice their own religions CLIMATE & GEOGRAPHY (review from Monday) – Cold winters, hot summers, wetlands, forested mountains, rolling hills, fertile soil

MIDDLE COLONIES ECONOMY – Farming (Grains = “The Breadbasket Colonies) – Trade – Lumbering and ship building RELIGION – Various faiths (religious diversity – no one dominant religious group = tolerance among all) GOVERNMENT – British-Appointed governor and Council (NY) – Elected Assembly (elected by the people to represent their interests) (PA)

SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLERS – English Catholics and Protestants – English landowners and skilled laborers – Debtors from English prisons (GA) – Other Europeans REASONS FOR SETTLEMENT – Religious and political freedom – Make money – Cheap land CLIMATE & GEOGRAPHY (review from Monday) – Hot summers, mild winters, fertile soils, wetlands, forested mountains, coastal lowlands – Allowed for a year-round growing season

SOUTHERN COLONIES ECONOMY – Plantation Farming – slaves – cash crops – rice, indigo, tobacco – Lumbering – Shipping, fishing – Iron mining RELIGION – Various faiths – Catholic – Church of England GOVERNMENT – Elected Assembly (House of Burgesses in VA) – self governing – Georgia was ruled by a Royal Governor for 12 yrs. before changing to an elected assembly.

VOCABULARY (see Word Wall for 13 Colonies on the Wiki) Subsistence Farming An Elected Assembly or Colonial Assembly Cash Crop Plantation Slavery Economy Democratic Indentured Servant