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,
In the south, for social, they still had problems with race. New laws made it hard for southern African Americans to enjoy the improvements of transportation. Politically, there were laws that allowed segregation and made it really hard for African Americans to enjoy their free life. economically, although the south remained mostly agricultural the south began to develop timber industries, also because there main source of profit was slaved, after slavery was abolished that took away a lot of the South’s major income, also iron and coal deposits in the southern Appalachian mountains gave rise to steel production in Alabama.
The northern colonies consisted of Massachusetts, Rhode Island. Connecticut, and New Hampshire. They had many natural resources such as fish, lumber, and fur. These helped the colonist trade. This region’s economy was primarily based off of fishing and shipbuilding due to the act they were near water and did not have arable soil. Most of the settlers who ran from religious persecution and settled here were puritans.
During the Revolution, there were thirteen different colonies, and when talked about they were divided into three different geographical locations, northern, middle and southern. The Northern region, also known as, the New England colonies, consisted of Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. The Southern colonies consisted of Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. “In the old colonial system a colony was to be a colony in the most obvious sense of the word: a perpetually subordinate agricultural and extractive area that served the mother country as a source of raw materials, a safety valve for excess or unwanted population, and a market for finished goods.” During the seventeenth and eighteenth century, mercantilism played a major role throughout the colonies. Mercantilism is a economic theory that enabled the government to regulate the economy for the purpose of building-up the rival nations economic power. The colonies, which belonged in the northern region, were a dysfunctional
The colonies were set up by the people’s intention for them as well as the region they so happened to hand at. Almost all of them did not reach their intended purpose for their set up. This however led to many slightly similar and completely different ways of life. The southern and northern colonies both developed because of their specific circumstances as well as the people who live there.
Life in the different regions of Colonia America were all quite different. The first Southern settlement was Jamestown in 1607. This settlement includes present day Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina and North Carolina. The climate was warmer than the other region, and disease was also more rapid. The economy was driven by the rich, fertile soil and a longer growing season where the plantation owners were able to grow vast crops such as tobacco, rise and indigo. This brought great wealth to these land owners. This region consisted of very few woman and mostly single men and slaves. The Southern Colonies focused on agriculture traded crops for item that could help the plantations They also did not have a good relationship with the Indians.
But the two Colonies were not the exact same. The Middle Colonies had religious freedom while the southern did not. The Southern were a little more strict when it came to religion. Though both of the Colonies
There are many things that asses the middle and southern colonies’ geography and motives on the economy and social life. The way of life and daily routines along with how people are worked and paid are just some of the ways that makes the colonies unique. Although from the same country the two regions were completely different.
Founded in the 17th century there were three major regions made up the British North Americas. The North or New England region, the Middle Colonies and the Southern Colonies. The regions had different climate, geography, population, politics, economy, and religion. Each region was different in the way they lived, worked, worshipped and did business. The North or New England Colonies consisted of states such as New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. The Middle Colonies consisted of states such as New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The Southern Colonies consisted of states such as Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia.
The mid-Atlantic and Southern regions during the 17th century, played a big role in creating and structuring America’s politics, economy and social life. Through trial and error eventually these regions formed America into the country as we know it today. The mid-Atlantic 's vast wealth of natural resources allowed this region to become very fruitful, economically in several key industries. The South during this time became very dependent of agriculture and trade. Settlers relied heavily on slave labor to work on farms, which created economic wealth through the use of plantations (Original13colonies, “n.d.). These two particular regions had several overlapping similarities as well as differences that made them unique.
The 13 Colonies are broken down into 3 parts, Middle, Southern, and New England Colonies. There were many similarities and differences between all of the 13 Colonies. Many of them ranging from their climate and geography to the role women and African Americans played. A variety of people came from all around the world to the 13 Colonies for many different reasons. In the Middle Colonies, there was a very diverse population.
The Northeast had more merchants and business people involved with trade and manufactures. Their economy was more dependent on trade companies with skilled laborers. There proximity to the sea and natural ports helped facilitate. Whereas in the South, there economy was agriculture and plant based with natural raw materials. For example their cash crop was cotton. Their economy was rather successful and didn’t need an economic industrial transformation.
The colonies, though seemingly united on one front, actually extremely varied on religious rules and customs. Each colony was basically established on its own belief or religion, as Pennsylvania was established by Quakers and Massachusetts was established by Puritans, and since separate religions had different rules and customs, there was a varied structure from colony to colony. This separation also went farther than just laws; some religions, such as Puritanism believed that anyone who doesn’t agree with the views of their religion would burn in Hell. For example, the Puritans in Massachusetts believed in soul or religious liberty, which “in their minds...was thought to be consistent with the persecution of Quakers, Catholics, Baptists, Presbyterians, Anglicans, and indeed virtually everyone except those within a very narrow spectrum of Calvinist Orthodoxy.” Therefore, Puritans didn't even associate themselves with other religions and
While both the North and the South were highly agricultural with many small, self-sufficient farmers in both regions, their main form of economy and productions differed. The North was highly industrial. Large cities grew along the Atlantic Ocean and near rivers. These cities were overcrowded, disease ridden, and unsanitary. The North’s economy was sustained by manufactured products made in factories that were in these cities. The South was an agricultural based society. The South’s economy
The Colonial era was the beginnings of what was to become the United States of America. Chartered companies, Joint-Stock Virginia Company and Massachusetts Bay Company, established colonies in both the North and South. The Northern colony was New England and the Southern was Virginia. A Middle region, made up of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware, also referred to as “The best poor man’s country developed shortly afterward. The social-economical patterns of this Middle region looked more Northern than it did Southern. In the South agriculture supplied by slave labor dominated their market system, while in the North timber and Cod fishing sustained their economy. The Middle region with a climate similar to the South, but without the impact of slave labor grew the crops that would feed the North, thus aligning them with the North
The southern colonies were made up of large plantations that produced tobacco, cotton or rice. In comparison to northern states, the southern economy was dependent on the free labor African slaves provided. The plantation society was divided into four major groups: the wealthy planters, the smaller planters, the poor whites, and the Africans. Plantation owners often trained some