New England Settlements

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Comprehending cause and effect.

REMEMBER: A cause is why something happens and an effect is what happens.

       CAUSE    (why it happened )                                          EFFECT (what happened)

1.. 2.They arrived in November and it was too late to plant crops. 3.

1.The Pilgrims left the netherlands for North  America. 2. 3.In the fall, the Pilgrims and Wampanoags celebrated Thanksgiving.

Comparing Colonies

	New England	Middle Colonies “The bread basket colonies”	Southern Colonies
Geography	-Cold -Poor, rocky soil -Short growing season -A lot of glaciers -A lot of forests -Poor farming -Good seas	-Along the Atlantic coast -Good farmland -Beavers -Rivers -Woods -Rich and deep soil -Warm climate -Rich in timber	-Warm climate -Good farmland -Rich soil -Woods full of animals -Growing season: 7 or 8 months long -Tobacco, rice, cotton, indigo
Economics	-Grew wheat, corn, rye, vegetables -Pigs, sheep and cattle -Fishing -Trade slaves	-The farmers produced more than needed -Sell the crops -Shops selling clocks, clothes, wigs, tools -Trades people -Good place to do business -Lumberjacks and loggers -Traded furs, lumber, grain, and meat (sea commerce)	-Sold cash crops: tobacco, rice, cotton, and indigo. -Slave trade: they used to buy slaves -Plantations
Society	-Schools for boys (for 6 years) -Schools for communities with more than 50 families -Religious freedom -Puritans -Puritan Church leaders -Town crier -Sundays are religious	-They believed people were equal -Religious tolerance -Maryland: refuge for Catholics -French, Dutch, Germans, Scotch, and Irish -Quakers -Organized streets	-Slaves for the plantations and for the rich people’s houses -Savannah: a penal colony and a safety zone for British and Spanish colonists -They had parties for the rich -They had private tutors who went to their houses -Plantations are far apart -Rich would go fox hunting
Politics	-Town crier -Public discussions to solve problems -Puritan Church leaders -Laws based on the Bible	-William Penn -Lord Baltimore (Maryland) -James Oglethorpe (Georgia)	-Savannah: a penal colony and a safety zone for British and Spanish

The Breadbasket Colonies

The Middle Colonies were composed of what is today the states of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.

Because the soil was rich in the Middle colonies, farmers were able to grow more grain than they could use. They began selling grain to other colonies and to England, shipping out of the big ports in Philadelphia and New York. Because of this, the middle colonies became known as the Breadbasket colonies.

Source: http://13colonies.mrdonn.org/middlecolonies.html

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