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Similarities Between The Northern Colonies

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The Northern colony consisted of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. Middle Colonies are Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New York, New Jersey. The Southern Colony, has Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. All three colonies wanted to make money, but each colony had different ways in doing so, mainly due to what they had to work with. There are differences and similarities between these colonies in the areas of Economy, religion, and political. First it was the Northern, known as the Agricultural farmers and fishermen, functioning mostly on fishing, farming, and trading (The American Promise, 127). Although they didn’t make a large amount of money from doing this, they managed to survive. The …show more content…

The Southerners’ were the largest and wealthiest due to the production of tobacco and cotton, and largest because of the amount of slaves brought over to work. The Southern colonies had lots of crop trading directly with Europe by Mississippi river. The plantation land owners needed the slaves to care for the crops daily, the slave population growing more and more through the years. The climate in the Southern colonies is the warmest, they didn’t have to worry about surviving cold winters, yet the warm climate was a negative factor carrying diseases that killed colonists. As far as education, children in the South were taught at …show more content…

The Puritan passes laws that required every resident to have the ability to read the bible. Those that did not conform within its boundaries were cast out (Roark 79). The observation of the Sabbath was strict, they dressed in clothing of somber. Others holidays such as Christmas and birthdays wasn’t celebrated and the practice of religion was not tolerated. They had a one class system: middle class, a homogenous background. The middle colonies, also known as the Quakers, Lutherans, Jews, Catholics and Anglicans had no reasoning behind their celebrating, wearing the latest European fashions. As far as religion is concerned, they practiced religious toleration. Having a two-class system that consisted of upper class landowners, middle class professionals living in the large cities. The church members in the Southern colonies were not the bosses, instead the landowners dominated the church. Religion wasn’t practiced, the colonists there were Anglicans, having their faith lay on the tobacco plantations. The Southern had the strict three class system that consisted of the upper class rich landowners,

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