1. Jumpstart Review your New England organizers from yesterday.
In your notebook, create a t-chart and compare the colonies discussed.
What similarities do they have?
What differences do they have?
Check your notes with the gold boxes found in the book on pgs

2. Environment, Culture, and Migration.
Colonial Regions
Environment, Culture, and Migration.

3. The Three Regions
New England
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies

4. New England Geography Mountainous Rocky, hard soil Large Forests
Very Short Growing Season (long cold winters)
Bad for farming
Large Forests
Natural Harbors (on the Atlantic Ocean)

5. New England Religion Separatists/Pilgrims Puritans
Strict religious rules
Closed communities
Intolerant of different ideas

6. New England Culture ECONOMY Subsistence Farming
Growing only what you need
Timber and Ship Building
Fishing and Whaling
Manufactured Goods
PEOPLE
Puritans and Pilgrims
Merchants, Manufacturers, Fisherman, etc.

7. New England Government
Self-Governing Charters
Town Meetings
The Mayflower Compact
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island

8. Middle Colonies Geography
Plenty of waterways
Rivers
Lakes
Warm summers and mild winters
Long growing season
Fertile soil

9. Middle Colonies Religion
Quakers
German Baptists
French Huguenots
Portuguese Jews
Dutch Mennonite (Amish)
Lutherans
Anglicans

10. Middle Colonies Economy
Farmed Wheat, Oat, Barley and Rye
Called the “Bread Colonies”
Shipbuilding
Skilled craftsmen
Some trade

11. Middle Colonies Government
New York
Proprietary Charters
Religious Freedom and Tolerance
Freedom of the Press
Strong Courts
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware

12. Southern Colonies Geography & Economy
Fertile soil
Long growing season and fertile land
Cool winters and hot summers
ECONOMY
Farmed Tobacco, Rice, Indigo, and Cotton.
Grew “cash crops” on plantations
Purchase manufactured goods.

13. Southern Colonies Religion
Religious freedom
Mostly Anglican
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

14. Southern Colonies People
Anglicans and Catholics (Maryland)
English Plantation Owners, Indentured Servants, Transported Criminals, and Slaves.
Southern Colonies People

15. Southern Colonies Government
Maryland
Virginia
Joint-Stock and Proprietary Charters.
The House of Burgesses
Colonies run for the profit of the Joint-Stock Company or Proprietors.
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia