Development of a Colonial Identity

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Development of a Colonial Identity

• New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies

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New England Colonies

• Massachusetts
• New Hampshire
• Connecticut
• Rhode Island

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Plymouth, Massachusetts

• Why did the Pilgrims migrate to America?
• The Pilgrims migrated to North America to escape
  religious persecution

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Plymouth, Massachusetts
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New England Colonies

• Environment
• Harsh Winters
• Good Harbors
• Fishing
• Whaling Trade
• Jagged Coastlines
• Rocky Soil

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New EnglandColonies

• Puritans who lives centered around the church
• Religious freedom vs
• Religious toleration

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New England Colonies

• New England Villages
• Skilled Craftsmen
• Shopkeepers

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Middle Colonies

• New York
• Pennsylvania
• New Jersey
• Delaware

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Middle Colonies

• Quakers who believed in a simple lifestyle and
  that all people are EQUAL
• They refused to bow before the King, fight in
  wars, or pay taxes to the Church of England

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Middle Colonies

• Quakers
• Religious diversity- there were many different
  religions in the Middle Colonies

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Pennsylvania

• William Penn the founder of Pennsylvania believed
  in religious freedom.
• William Penn was a Quaker

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Middle Colonies

• Market towns
• Villages and towns
• Skilled and unskilled workers
• Fishermen

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Middle Colonies

• Moderate climate
• Coastal lowlands
• Wide and deep rivers
• Rich farmland
• Grain farming
• Livestock raising

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New Jersey Penny
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Southern Colonies

• Maryland
• Virginia
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Georgia

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Southern Colonies Region

• Long growing season
• Cash crops
• Plantations
• Small farms
• Humid climate

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Southern Colonies

• Good harbors and rivers made it easy to export
  their cash crops.
• The cash crops in the early Southern Colonies was
  rice, indigo, and tobacco.

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Jamestown, Virginia 1607

• In 1607, a group of wealthy English gentlemen
  merchants formed the Virginia Company. There
  goal was an economic venture designed to find
  goal in the new land.

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Southern way of life

• Church of England
• Few Schools
• Few Cities

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Plantation Agriculture

• Slave labor
• Indentured servants
• Large cash crops
• Mansions

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Southern Lifestyle

• Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia

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Slavery in the South

• Plantation owners relied on slaves and indentured
  servants to sow and harvest their fields.