Module 3 lesson 1 mastery assignment 1.

1. Thirteen Colonies
By: Nick Hanna

2. New England Colonies
A. Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire
• Pilgrims and Puritans settled here to pursue their
own religion.
• These colonies relied on subsistence farming and
fishing to obtain food.
• These colonies were known for their shipbuilding
and ship ports.

3. Middle Colonies
A. Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey
• Quakers settled here to pursue their own religion.
• These colonies were the most economically,
politically, and socially diverse.
• The Middle Colonies were part agricultural and part
industrial.

4. Southern Colonies
A. Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia
• Their main goal was to make money in a new
market.
• Most of all labor came from African-American
slaves.
• Relied heavily on cash crops from their plantations
(where the slaves worked).

5. Triangular Trade
• The effects of triangular trade were enormous.
• The triangular trade introduced many new items and ideas to the
new world and the old world.
• Some examples are the potato, which came from the old world to
the new world and it became a major success and led to population
growth and a higher life expectancy.
• Another example was slaves from Africa who worked on plantations
in the new world, which led to a civil war and racism as well as
much profit in the new world.
• The effects of the triangular trade were both positive and negative.

6. The Great Awakening
• The Great awakening led to many important ideas.
• The Great Awakening sparked new religious activity
in the new world.
• It also led people to turn to Jesus.
• On the down side, the great awakening was one of
the factors that led to the american revolution.

7. Enlightenment thinking
• The Enlightenment turned people to science and
away from religion.
• The Enlightenment pushed people away from
whatever branch of Christianity they were apart of
and led them to believe in science more.
• In a way they replaced God with “thinking.”