1. US HISTORY USHC 1.1 COLONIZATION
Summarize the distinct characteristics of each colonial region in the settlement and development of British North America, including religious, social, political, and economic differences.
COLONIZATION

2. Motives for Colonizing
RELIGIOUS
ECONOMIC
Motives for Colonizing

3. Thirteen Colonies Massachusetts Pennsylvania Virginia New England
Mid-Atlantic
Pennsylvania
Southern
Virginia
South Carolina

4. Religion Religious “Freedom” Religion NOT a motive New England
Mid-Atlantic
Southern
Religious “Freedom”
(Tolerance)
LIMITED
Diversity & Tolerance
Religion NOT a motive

5. The “Pilgrims” (Plymouth)
Religious Dissidents

6. Massachusetts Bay Colony
Puritans
City on a Hill!
John Winthrop Governor

7. TOLERATION Williams Hutchinson
Religious dissenters, such as Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson, were EXILED.
Williams started the Rhode Island colony.

8. Mid-Atlantic Colonies
(Limited) Religious Toleration & Diversity
Quakers Pennsylvania

9. “All About the Benjamins” Church of England Established
Southern Colonies
“All About the Benjamins”
Church of England Established

10. Except . . . Catholics Maryland Lord Baltimore: Founder
Only CHRISTIANS were accepted NO OTHER RELIGIONS ALLOWED!

11. Religion Religious “Freedom” Religion NOT a motive New England
Mid-Atlantic
Southern
Religious “Freedom”
(Tolerance)
LIMITED
Diversity & Tolerance
Religion NOT a motive

12. Hierarchical (Landowners Dominant)
Society
New England
Southern
Egalitarian
(Clergy Dominant)
Hierarchical (Landowners Dominant)

13. Plantation Slavery
(Southern Colonies)

14. English Political Traditions
Magna Carta
Parliament

15. English Political Traditions
Popular Government
Representative Government
English Political Traditions

16. Town Meetings
(New England)
Egalitarian
Democratic

17. Aristocratic Representative
House of Burgesses
(Virginia)
Aristocratic Representative

18. Economy CASH Crops Slave Labor New England Mid-Atlantic Southern
Commerce
Shipbuilding
Fishing
Staple Crops
Wheat, Corn
Family Farms
CASH Crops
Tobacco, Rice, Indigo
Slave Labor

19. RAW GOODS
FINISHED GOODS
SLAVES
The Triangular Trade

20. Colonial Trade Routes

21. Mercantilism SALUTARY NEGLECT Economic Regulation
(Primarily of Trade)
Navigation Acts (1651)
SALUTARY NEGLECT
Strict Enforcement