13 colonies

  • Virginia

    economics: tobacco
    social:plantations, slavery
    political: Lord de la warr, John Rolfe, House of Burgesses
  • Massachusetts Bay colony

    econiomic: fishing and hunting
    poltical: puritans controlled the colony, had a representative government
    social: extended families came over, they brought their servants. most fmailies had same social class ranking. puritan religion
  • New Hampshire

    asorbed by massachusetts
  • Maryland

    Economic: tabacco
    Political: Lord Baltimore, feudal domain
    Social: Cathlocs were main religion, colonists came if promised land, slavery, sheltered the most Roman Catholics
  • Connecticut

    Political: self-governing in under local control, want close church and state, Fundamental Orders
    Social: emigrants from Massachusetts, Dutch and English, Puritan
    Economic: seaports
  • Rhode island

    Political: Roger Williams, most liberal colony
    Economic: slave trade with West indies
    Social: complete religious freedom, social outcasts, "sewer"