The document summarizes the 13 original colonies in British North America. It divides them into three regions: New England colonies, Middle colonies, and Southern colonies. Each region is described in terms of the religious groups that settled there, their economies, and reliance on farming, fishing, shipping or cash crops like tobacco. The effects of the triangular slave trade are also summarized, noting both positive impacts like introducing new crops but also negative consequences like slavery and the Civil War. Brief summaries are also provided of the impacts of the Great Awakening religious movement and ideas of the Enlightenment.

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.”