The document summarizes the origins and characteristics of the three colonial regions in British North America - New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. It describes that the New England colonies were founded in the 1600s by religious dissenters seeking freedom of worship. The Middle colonies had a diverse economy and population. The Southern colonies relied on cash crops like tobacco grown by enslaved workers and indentured servants.

2.  The colonies in America began in
Virginia. In 1607, the first permanent
English Colony appeared in Jamestown,
Virginia.
 When more and more people came to
the colonies it formed the New England,
Middle, and Southern colonies.

4.  The New England Colonies include:
 Rhode Island
 Massachusetts
 Connecticut
 & New Hampshire

5. The New England colonies where some of
the only colonies in the New World
formed because of something other
than money.
Money did play a part, however the
largest was religious freedom.

6.  After England split from Catholicism, they
formed the Church of England, which
was becoming a forced religion in
England.
 John Calvin spoke against the Church of
England and Catholicism. He said that
neither Catholic nor Anglican churches
spoke in favor of God’s will.

7.  John Calvin was found and he was tried
as a heretic and found guilty. He was
later, persecuted.
 After Calvin’s persecution the Pilgrims
and the Puritans began planning to
escape England. The first plan was to
seek refuge in Netherlands, which ended
badly and with a new plan for America.

8.  The first groups of English to arrive in New
England were the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims
originally set out to arrive just north of
Jamestown to be under their charter.
 However, a storm blew them off course.
They landed in Plymouth Bay, where they
formed the Mayflower Compact.

10.  The Middle Colonies
include:
 New York
 New Jersey
 Pennsylvania
 & Deleware

11.  The Middle colonies were nicknamed the
bread basket colonies. They were
named this because they were known
for mills and bread.
 On average of 1 pound of bread per
day.
 People who owned the mills used the
river power to crush the grains using
grinders.

12.  The Middle Colonies were very unique
with their jobs. Their jobs included:
 Farmers
 Tailors
 Glass blowers
 Brick Makers
 & Silversmiths

13.  The Middle Colonies had mild weather,
and rich soil.
 Both of these produced a long growing
season which produced meat, any
grain, and some corn.

14.  Famous people in the Middle Colonies
include:
 Peter Minuit
 Peter Stuyvesant
 Lord Berkeley
 George Carteret
 & William Penn

16.  The Southern Colonies include:
 Georgia
 South Carolina
 North Carolina
 Virginia
 & Maryland

17.  Cash crops were one of the main
products produced in the Southern
Colonies.
 The Cash Crops include tobacco, rice,
and indigo.
 Other products produced were lumber,
tar, turpentine, pitch, furs and cattle.

18.  The Southern Colonies had the most
slaves to produce the cash crops.
 The slaves often had to work long days
with no breaks. They would pick the
tobacco in the fields or just do
miscellaneous things on the plantations.

19.  Indentured Servants were mostly
German, Irish, or English in heritage.
 They were people who agreed to act as
a slave for 4 to 7 years in exchange for a
free passage to the New World.
 Indentured Servants eventually made up
half of the White population in America.

20.  The ratio of men to women in the
Southern Colonies was 3 to 2. Most men
died around 40 while most women lived
to be in their late 30’s.
 The mortality rate of children was ¼ for
newborns. Over ½ of children died
before20.
 A big factor of the early deaths was the
wide variety of diseases spread by bugs/
mosquitoes.

21. The Triangle Trade was beneficial for the colonies
because they exported many more materials that
they imported, the main item imported was the
slaves. Although the slaves were expensive they were
still cheaper than the goods exported. With all the
import/export it increased the wealth of the colonies

22. The Great Awakening was a
rebirth of religion. This affected the
colonies because it forced other
religions other than the main
(Catholicism and Anglican) to seek
freedom from persecution.

23. Enlightenment thinking
affected the colonial
government because when
the founder’s came together
to form governments they
combined the thinking's of
John Locke, Montesquieu,
etc.

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