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Period: to
Early Colonization
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Southern Colonies
Economics: slave labor, large plantation farming, Arsticrats
Geography: long growing season due to warmer climate, hot long summers, mild winters, large farms with cash crops, flat land, ranged from coastal plains in the east to rolling hills farther inland. Western regions were mountanous, fertile soil, hot summers increased diseas such as malaria and yellow fever
Religion: Anglican -
Middle Colonies
Economics: food crops, lumbery and ship building, textiles production and paper making, shipping hubs, craftsmen, blacksmiths, silversmith, cobblers, wheelwrigths, wigmakers
Geography: fertile soil, winters not as harsh, long summers kept disease away, uncleared forest, first settlements around
Hudson River, ranged from coastal plains along the coastline, rolling hills in the middle, and mountains further inland
Religions: Anglican, Dutch reformed, Protistant, Catholic, Jewish -
Northen Colonies
Economics: farming, fishing, shipping and handicraft trades, forests- lumber used for ship building, sailors, fishermen, and merchants
Geography: short growing season, colder climate, rocky soil (less fertile), small farms (personal use), fishsing (majority of food and careers), Appalachain Mountains, near Atlantic Ocean
Religion: Puritan -
Exploration Pilgrim
When: 1620
Why: Religious Freedom
Where: 13 colonies and America
Events: Mayflower Compact, Manga Carta
Outcomes: Massachestts swallowed up Plymouth Rock -
Virginia
Created by the London Company and John Smith. Jamestown is in Virgina and the first sustainable colony. -
Plymouth
British citezens -
New York
James the Duke of York -
Massachuesetts
William Bradford -
Maryland
Lord Baltimore -
Connecticut
Thomas Hooker -
Rhode Island
Roger Williams -
New Hampshire
John Wheelwright -
Delaware
Peter Minuit and New Sweden Company -
North Carolina
Virginians -
South Carolina
8 noblemen -
New Jersey
Lord Birkley and Sir Geroge Carteret -
Penssylvania
William Penn -
Georgia
James Ogelthorpe
