The document summarizes the key characteristics of the 13 original colonies divided into three regions - New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. It describes the religion, economy, and forms of government that developed in each region. It also discusses the triangular slave trade, the Great Awakening religious revival, and how Enlightenment thinking influenced the development of colonial governments.

1. The Thirteen Colonies
By: Sytina Perrett

2. The Colonist Regions
New England
● Rhode Island
● Massachusetts
● New Hampshire
● Connecticut
Middle Colonist
● New Jersey
● New York
● Pennsylvania
● Delaware
Southern Colonist
● Virgina
● Georgia
● Maryland
● North Carolina
● South Carolina
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3. New England Colonist
Religion: Pilgrims came to New England
to search for religious freedom. They had been
persecuted by the church in England of their
practice of dissenting. The Puritans were very
strict in religious discipline. Rhode Island is
where everyone enjoyed religious freedom.
Economy: Largely subsistence farming and
fishing communities, these things are tied into
mercantilism. The people of new england made their
own cloths. They grew much of their own food. Boston,
in the colony of Massachusetts, was the major New
England port. Shipbuilding was important on this region
because of their large, easily navigated ports.
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Government:Religion and government was tired
together. People in New England would all come together to
vote at the town hall, which was the center of the
government.”The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut was the
first constitution that gave people voting rights.”

4. Middle colonist
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Religion: Quakers was in Pennsylvania,
Huguenots was in the French protestants,
Jews was in New York and Presbyterians was
in New Jersey. Basically the middle colonist
was very diverse when it came down to
religion. Quakers are a religious group that are
totally opposed to war and violence,
Government:The middle
colonist was the most democratic colonial
region.”The Middle Colonies, now
Delaware, New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania, were originally proprietary
colonies governed by landowners.”
“The middle colonies were the most
socially,politically and economically diverse.”
Economy: The middle colonies were part
agriculture and part industrial. Pennsylvania and
New York wheat and other grains grew on these
farms Factories in Pennsylvania produced paper
and textiles and factories in Maryland produced
iron.

5. Southern Colonist
Religion: The southern colonists
were a mixture of Baptists and Anglicans.
The Virginia colonist were Anglicans and if
your religion wasn’t Anglicans such as
Puritans, Quakers and others had to leave
the colony.
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Economy: The Southern Colonist
were entirely agricultural. The main
feature was the plantation. Cash crops,
“crops grown in order to make great sums
of money.” These cash crops, such as
corn, rice, tobacco and indigo, was sold to
buyers in England and other places in
America.
Government: Representative
Government. The House of Burgesses met in
1619. It was Virgina first government.

6. The Triangular Trades
What is a Triangular Trade:”a
multilateral system of trading in which a country
pays for its imports from one country by its
exports to another.”
Effects:
Europe: Killed many indigenous people, new
European diseases, created companies to regulate trade
and explored african coast. Africa:
population stagnant, exchange weapons for slaves,
communities became violent and some africans became
merchant princes. America:
Imported slaves and equipment, kept importing slaves in
large numbers, racism was born and informal econmy is
created.
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7. The Great Awakening
What is the Great Awakening: “an evangelical
and revitalization movement that swept Protestant
Europe and British America, and especially the
American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a
permanent impact on American Protestantism.”
Effects: The thirteen colonies were too far from town
centers to attend churches and religious gathering, so
religious revivals develop throughout the colonist
communities. People comes from miles to learn and
hear a preacher's address the bible.
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8. Enlightenment thinking on the development of the colonial governments
in each region.
Effect: The Enlightenment period also sprouted the
idea that education and reason could improve human
life. The enlightenment thinkers called for freedoms for
individuals, governments of the people, and freedom of
the religious beliefs. The enlightenment thinkers in this
period began the belief that people could think on their
own and could also answer questions on their own.The
Enlightenment period made governments whom had
goals were to end noble privileges and to limit the king's
powers with separation of powers, checks and balances,
and created the freedom of speech and religion.
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9. Citations
Slide 3: http://www.slideshare.net/mprepster/key-economic-political-and-social-characteristics-of-the-new-england-colonies
Slide 4:http://www.radford.edu/~rvshelton/Middle.htm
Slide 5: http://www.ushistory.org/us/5.asp
Slide 6: Triangular Trade:http://abolition.e2bn.org/slavery_43.html http://study.com/academy/lesson/triangular-trade-route-system-role-
in-slavery.html
Slide 7: http://152.46.13.240/MoodleContent/AmericanHistoryI/Influences_Colonial_America/Influences_Colonial_America.html
Slide 8:http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-the-enlightenment-affected-politics-and-govern.html