1. Objective: To examine the similarities and differences between the three colonial regions.
New Hampshire
New York
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
Helpful Hint:
Have your students use the cloze sheet to make a color coded map of the three different colonial regions. (available only with the purchase of the Colonial Regions Package, Notes, or Complete Package)
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia

2. 13 Colonies
KEY
New England
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut
Middle Colonies
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
Southern Colonies
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

3. New England Colonies
Farming was difficult in New England because of:
• long winters
• thick forests
• rocky soil
* Fishing and trade became major industries in New England.

4. In order to learn these skills, people became apprentices.
…lumbering.
A growing
fishing industry
in New England
caused an
increase in…
…sailmaking.
…metal
working.
(blacksmith)
…shipbuilding.
…barrel
making.
In order to learn these skills, people became apprentices.
Apprentice - a person who learns a trade or craft from a master craftsworker.

5. Middle Colonies
New York was first settled by the Dutch, then the English.
Pennsylvania was originally a Quaker settlement.
In time, Pennsylvania was settled by German-speaking Protestants known as the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Farmers exported grain such as wheat, barley, and rye.
Therefore, the Middle Colonies became known as the Breadbasket Colonies.

6. Southern Colonies
• The South has rich soil and a warm climate.
• Tobacco, rice, and indigo were grown on plantations.
Planters, or plantation owners, relied on slave labor to accumulate massive wealth.
Plantation - large estate farmed by many workers

7. Commercial Farming vs. Subsistence Farming
commercial farming - farming for a profit, where food is produced by advanced technological means for sale in the market.
commercial farm, Humboldt, Tennessee (2008)
Plantations in the Southern Colonies used slave labor before the Civil War, and sharecroppers after the war, to produce large quantities of crops for commercial distribution.
Early 20th-century: "Negroes picking cotton on a plantation in the South"

8. Commercial Farming vs. Subsistence Farming
subsistence farming - farming where output is produced for consumption of the farmer and its family members and not for cash sale
Most farmers in the South were subsistence farmers and did not own slaves.
"Part of the family of Hugh Noe, a renter on a farm near Andersonville, Tennessee." (October 24,1933 photo credit: Lewis Hine
Colonial Regions Summary (3:31)