...The Middle Colonies political positions were held by men more of respect and wealth than just being predetermined by the size of a man's farm. They all had people willing to vote. “There were more towns like atmospheres in the middle colonies so more preachers and school teachers were needed. There was more community and a bigger need for politics for its people, so the people were more caring about their leaders and more interested in the government than the south. Where ever you lived in the colonies the geography greatly affected your work and the economy. Within their economy, geographically, socially and even politically. The Middle Colonies, on the other hand, had soil that was good to plant crops in but was not rich enough soil to prosper greatly with plantations and many crops. The New England colonies surpassed all other colonies in the importance of government. All the women wove, cooked, cleaned and cared for the children. They also had many large flowing rivers for ships to export goods and crops. The majority of the people living in the South either owned a plantation or worked on a plantation. The colonies had many differences and similarities economically. They had barely any slaves and a few farms. There were also many men who were single and looking for love in the south since it was an area of few women. The middle colonies were an area of some large plantations and many small farms. The three most important themes of English colonization of America were...
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...the colonists became more independent from other nations. People had different jobs that varied along the coast. The landmass was divided into 13 colonies that each had separate functions. The New England colonies mainly fished and cut down trees. The Middle Colonies were more suitable for farming and reaped profits from grains and shipbuilding . The Southern Colonies grew cash crops such as tobacco, indigo, and rice. In addition to difference of economy, the colonies were settled by different people, thus leading to a variety of governments and society. All the colonies have very diverse lifestyles but they still have the basic english culture running through all of them. Although, they may be leaded by the king or by an individual they still have the basic jobs of farming or housework and still they retain the same social order. Government differed among the colonies, and these governments were divided into three...
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...The colonies were founded for different reasons. The Southern colonies were founded to seek economic prosperity that they couldn't find in England. The Middle colonies were founded to establish freedom of religion where people didn't have to follow in something they didn't believe in. The New England colonies were founded by Puritans and Pilgrims to succeed from the Church of England and like the Middle colonies have religious and spiritual freedom. As activities went for the Southern colonies agriculture was big especially for growing cash crops, indenture servants and slaves were also very important when it came to farming. Like the Southern colonies the Middle colonies were big into farming because their fields were very fertile. The New...
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... Pick one of the 3 sets of colonies that you would prefer to migrate to in the 1700s (New England, The Middle Colonies, or the Southern Colonies). You must give reasons for your choice as well as against the other two sections. I would like everyone to turn in an outline of their essay on turnitin.com. This is a 30 point major grade. Essay outline: Region: New England Thesis: In the 1700s it would be more religiously and politically beneficial for individuals to settle in New England colonies over Mid-Atlantic and southern colonies. Reason 1 to settle here: The New England colonies provide an escape for puritans from New England. How is this true of this region: New England colonies were founded by puritans or puritan accepting people....
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...America, which were The New England colonies, Middles colonies, and the Southern colonies. However, each had different reasons for exploration, relationships with other cultures, and economy ways of life. Primarily, the three regions had different reasons exploring America. In the New England colonies...
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...Appendix A Clash of Cultures Complete the grid by describing the characteristics listed in the left-side column for the five groups named. | |Native Americans |Northern Colonists |Mid-Atlantic Colonists |Southern Colonists |West Africans | |Political Structure|Politics advanced in large |Participated in discussions, took |The Middle Colonies were generally|The southern colonies had a |Politics advanced in large | | |kingdoms that oversaw and |votes on projects and taxes. Laws |run by Royal or Proprietary |governor and a council appointed |kingdoms that oversaw and | | |protected their citizens and that |were based on common law to do |Governors and elected Colonial |by the crown, and an assembly |protected their citizens and that | | |allowed for expansive lines of |God’s duty in the land he had |Assemblies. Many Middle Colony |or house of representatives that |allowed for expansive lines of | | |trade. |given them |constitutions guaranteed freedom |was elected by the people. The |trade. | | | | |of religion and forbade taxation |governor had the most power of | ...
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...documents what was the nature and characters of these colonies? According to what is presented in the documents how might the colonies be distinguished from one another. (Compare/contrast) The beginnings of the American colonies started in the 17th century with settlers from different European countries such as Spain, France, England, Holland and Sweden. The colony Jamestown, was the first to establish in the Eastern Coast in the year 1607, in what is today known as Virginia and a little more than a decade later in the year 1620 the pilgrims settled at Plymouth in what is today known as Massachusetts. England gained control of the 13 colonies after winning the war against France. These 13 colonies were Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. The first settlers of the American colonies came for different motives, all looking to fulfill different aspects of their lives, some looking for freedom of creed, others to improve their financial situation and some others for adventure. Historians distinguished the different colonies defined by their own unique characteristics based on where the settlers came from, who found them and what they did for living. The 13 colonies were grouped in three different categories; the New England colonies, the Middle and the Southern Colonies. The New England Colonies were mostly characterized because their settlers or...
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...1.What were the main causes, elements, and impact of the different approaches to colonies followed by the English, French, and Spanish? By Columbus’s discovery, Spain got a religious justification fro conquest and an army of seasoned soldiers, named conquistadores. Also, rulers in Spain developed efficient techniques for controlling new colonies. The conquistadores left a trail of destruction by attacking native villages and killed or captured the inhabitant since they preferred seeking gold and slaves to creating permanent settlements. In 1519, some Spanish soldiers landed on the coast of Mexico. Three years later, these Spanish soldier conquered Aztec empire. The three factors of Spanish victory were technological advantages, division within the Aztec empire, and disease. Later, some other Spanish soldiers conquered a richer empire, Inca empire. By 1550, Spain’s New World empire, which stretched from the Caribbean through Mexico to Peru, was administered from Spain by the Council of the Indies. The council enacted laws for the empire and supervised an elaborate bureaucracy to maintain political control and extract wealth from the land and its people. Then, two expedition went to north America to find gold and silver but they did not find any gold and silver. So Spain stopped to extend its empire and just maintained two precarious footholds in north of Mexico. By a large number of gold and silver flowing into Spain, it became the richest and most powerful state in Europe. However...
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...way of having servants to work for them every day. Although the colonists first intention was to bring slaves to the colonies to assist in the making of tobacco, the slaves ended up aiding in the development of the nation, and changing the colonists views on slavery. In the early 1600’s, the English Colonists had begun growing their own crops because they did not have enough resources for food. However, they ran into an issue when they realized they did not have enough colonists to grow crops and cotton in the fields. The English men decided to bring African American slaves to “[work] mainly on the tobacco, rice and indigo plantations of the southern coast.” (History.com)....
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...liberty, and/or ordeal, relied heavily upon their geographical location. Depending on whether an individual lived in New England, the Middle colonies, or in the Southern colonies, the prevalence of these experiences would differ thanks to the resources and types of people each colony possessed. After religious intolerance in England began to advance, many groups of people traveled to the New England colonies in hopes of achieving the liberty to practice religion freely and to build a society without the corruption of English religious ideas. In the Puritan Compacts, each covenant had a...
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...What was life really like in the Colonies?Was education good?Did Farmers have leisure time?And what did colonist do for fun or during leisure time? The London Chronicle, Was inaccurate with some statements. I will tell you the truth. Education was different in different regions. In the Southern Colonies it was different in different family.Since most families were all spread out it was hard to get education.Few neighbors got together and hired a teacher. And wealthy families sent their kids back to england to get education.In Middle Colonies, each family had to decide how to educate their child. Most parents home schooled. And Some groups built church schools.But in New England towns were required to provide public schooling....
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...The North Colonies, or also known as the New England Colonies, were New Hampshire Colony, Rhode Island Colony, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and Connecticut Colony. The founders of these colonies, the Puritans and the Pilgrims, besides the quest for economic success, they were actually led by the freedom of religion that they aspired since the break-up of King Henry VIII with the Catholic Church. With the pursuit of these religious groups and their controversial beliefs, they were looking for a place where their ideas were practiced and their children could grow without the influence of past English religious ideas, a place to make a perfect society. That look guided them to one part of the New World, North America. The religion established in the North, in comparison with the Middle Colonies, was strictly Puritan, and they didn´t tolerate other religions. The economy of the region was based on fishing, whaling and shipbuilding. The agriculture was something difficult to practiced because of the geography of the land, which wasn´t appropriate for crops. Despite this, pumpkins, corn, beans, rye and squash were planted. In the politic aspect, we can say that Democracy was present in the North, Middle and South...
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...The Middle Colonies had fertile soil and although it wasn’t the best like in the Southern colonies it was still much better than the rocky terrain of the north. The kind of arming the middle colonies did was called subsistence farming. Subsistence farming was the kind of farming where you ate what you grew, you didn’t sell it at market or make a profit it off it in any way because if they did it wouldn’t be enough to live on. The middle colonies were known as the “Colonial Bread Basket” because of how much wheat they produced. On bigger farms the farmers were able to use the ports in Philadelphia to sell their wheat and make a profit. In the Southern Colonies the weather was hot and humid which was perfect weather to have big plantations of...
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...Justin Baker R. Brogan US History 1865 Midterm Essay #1: Question #1: Northern, Middle, and Southern Colonies Compare and Contrast America has always been a land of diversity but also a land of unity. This statement also applied to the first English settlements that were established here in North America. In the beginning years of America, the colonies could be divided into three regional areas: New England colonies, middle colonies and the southern colonies. Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island comprised the northern colonies; New York, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania made up the middle colonies; and Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia composed the southern colonies. These three colonial areas had both similarities and differences that will be analyzed in respects to their economic base, political structures, and attitudes toward slavery established in these three regional areas throughout this essay. Although many different types of Europeans founded the colonies throughout the eastern seaboard they were some similarities as to how they were established and how they made their economic bases. Throughout the Norton text I’ve noticed that all of the colonies were established through some sort of business enterprise, whether it was through the Massachusetts Bay Company, or the Virginia Company, or even a lone entrepreneur, looking to make a fortune for them. These businesses were all expected to turn a profit, some of them...
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...used the charter from Massachusetts Bay Company as a guide to setting up their government. New England Colonies were democratic; they all had a governor, council, and an assembly, elected annually by the freemen. Towns had a meeting hall where the town father’s would oversee the meetings and agendas, they would offer advice but a unanimous vote by the townsmen decided all outcomes. The New England colonies were close-knit, family oriented communities, with church at the center of everything. They were not very tolerant of other religions and strict in their beliefs. The colonists made their living fishing, whaling, and shipbuilding. A mixture of immigrant groups settled the Mid-Atlantic colonies. A wide range of nationalities made for a blend of religions existing together within the Mid-Atlantic colonies, making for a greater emphasis on religious toleration and social differing qualities Pennsylvania encouraged farmers to immigrate to the colony and charged quitrents. The Native Americans received payment for their land, which helped in...
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