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

http://www.slideshare.net/ajroets/61-the-middle-colonies-55805719

13 Colonies

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Massachusetts New Hampshire

Rhode Island

Connecticut

New York

New Jersey

Pennsylvania

Delaware

Maryland

Virginia

North Carolina

South Carolina

Georgia

Compare and Contrast

13 Colonies Regions

New England Colonies     E	Geograhy and Climate	Economy
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island Religion Dominated by the Puritans, reformers seeking to “purify” Christianity, who came over from England to practice religion without persecution. Puritans followed strict rules and were intolerant of other religions, eventually absorbing the separatist Pilgrims. Life in New England was dominated by church, and there were severe consequences for those who failed to attend, or, those who spoke out against the Puritan ways. Singing and celebrating holidays were among things prohibited in Puritan New England.	Bitterly cold winters and mild summers Cold winters reduced the spread of disease. Land was flat close to the coastline but became hilly and mountainous farther inland. Soil was generally rocky, making farming difficult.	Largely dependent on the ocean. Fishing (especially codfish) was most important to the New England economy, though whaling, trapping, shipbuilding, and logging were important also. Eventually, many New England shippers grew wealthy buying slaves from West Africa in return for rum, and selling the slaves to the West Indies in return for molasses. This process was called the “triangular trade.”

Middle Colonies     E	Geograhy and Climate	Economy
New York,  Pennsylvania, New Jersey,  Delaware Religion Religion was varied as no single religion seemed to dominate the entire region. Religious tolerance attracted immigrants from a wide-range of foreign countries who practiced many different religions. Quakers, Catholics, Jews, Lutherans and Presbyterians were among those religious groups that had significant numbers in the middle colonies.	Colonies spanned the Mid-Atlantic region of America and were temperate in climate with warm summers and cold winters. Geography ranged from coastal plains along the coastline, piedmont (rolling hills) in the middle, and mountains farther inland. This area had good coastal harbors for shipping. Climate and land were ideal for agriculture. These colonies were known as the “breadbasket” because of the large amounts of barley, wheat, oats, and rye that were grown here.	A successful and diverse economy. Largely agricultural, farms in this region grew numerous kinds of crops, most notably grains and oats. Logging, shipbuilding, textiles production, and papermaking were also important in the Middle Colonies. Big cities such as Philadelphia and New York were major shipping hubs, and craftsmen such as blacksmiths, silversmiths, cobblers, wheelwrights, wigmakers, milliners, and others contributed to the economies of such cities.

Southern Colonies     E	Geograhy and Climate	Economy
Maryland, Virginia, North + South Carolina Religion Most people in the Southern Colonies were Anglican (Baptist or Presbyterian), though most of the original settlers from the Maryland colony were Catholic, as Lord Baltimore founded it as a refuge for English Catholics.  Religion did not have the same impact on communities as in the New England colonies or the Mid-Atlantic colonies because people lived on plantations that were often distant and spread out from one another.	Warm climate with hot summers and mild winters. Hot summers, however, propagated diseases such as malaria and yellow fever. Geography ranged from coastal plains in the east to piedmont farther inland. The western most regions were mountainous. The soil was perfect for farming and the growing season was longer than in any other region.	The Southern economy was almost entirely based on farming. Rice, indigo, tobacco, sugarcane, and cotton were cash crops. Crops were grown on large plantations where slaves and indentured servants worked the land. In fact, Charleston, South Carolina became one of the centers of the American slave trade in the 1700′s.

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Geography of the colonies

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Jamestown : Reading for important information.

1. Read the text you received in class.
2.Copy both graphic organizers in your blog book.
3.Complete the organizers.
4.Reflect on this question: What do settlers need in order to survive and succeed?
5. Come prepared for a dialogue circle.

Important Dates		Who?
	The Lost Colony
What happened?		Why?

Important Dates		Who?
	Jamestown
What happened?		Why?