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. 49-53.

ColonialColonialRegionsRegions

Environment, Culture, and Migration.

The Three Regions

New England

Middle Colonies

Southern Colonies

New EnglandGeography

Mountainous Rocky, hard soil

– Very Short Growing Season (long cold winters)

• Bad for farming

Large Forests Natural Harbors (on the

Atlantic Ocean)

New EnglandReligion

Separatists/Pilgrims Puritans Strict religious

rules Closed

communities– Intolerant of

different ideas

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.

New EnglandCulture

Self-Governing Charters

Town Meetings The Mayflower

Compact The

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

New EnglandGovernment

Massachusetts

New Hampshire

Connecticut Rhode Island

Middle ColoniesGeography

Plenty of waterways– Rivers– Lakes

Warm summers and mild winters

Long growing season

Fertile soil

Quakers German Baptists French Huguenots Portuguese Jews Dutch Mennonite

(Amish) Lutherans Anglicans

Middle ColoniesReligion

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

Colonies”

Shipbuilding Skilled craftsmen Some trade

Middle ColoniesEconomy

Proprietary Charters

Religious Freedom and Tolerance

Freedom of the Press

Strong Courts

Middle ColoniesGovernment

New York

Pennsylvania

New Jersey

Delaware

GEOGRAPHY 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.

Southern ColoniesGeography & Economy

Southern ColoniesReligion

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

Southern Colonies

People

Anglicans and Catholics (Maryland)

English Plantation Owners, Indentured Servants, Transported Criminals, and Slaves.

Joint-Stock and Proprietary Charters.

The House of Burgesses

Colonies run for the profit of the Joint-Stock Company or Proprietors.

Southern ColoniesGovernment Maryland

Virginia

North Carolina

South Carolina

Georgia