The document summarizes the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. It discusses that the New England colonies like Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire relied on shipbuilding and fishing. The Middle Colonies like Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey attracted many religious groups seeking freedom of religion. The Southern Colonies like Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina and Georgia focused on agriculture and cash crops on large plantations. It also summarizes the effects of the triangular trade, Great Awakening, and Enlightenment on the colonies and their move towards independence.

1. Module 3 Assignment 1
BY: Faye Moore

2. New England Colonies
• Rhode Island
• Connecticut
• Massachusetts
• New Hampshire

3. New England Colonies
• Shipbuilding was important because of the
large easy to navigate ports
• Pilgrims and puritans settled here mostly for
religious freedom
• Largely subsistence farming and fishing
communities

4. Middle Colonies
• Delaware
• Pennsylvania
• New York
• New Jersey

5. Middle Colonies
• This is where most people came to
practice their own religion(Quakers)
• Most socially, politically, and
economically diverse
• Fertile soil and religious promise

6. Southern Colonies
• Maryland
• Virginia
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Georgia

7. Southern Colonies
• Main reason to moving here was
to make more money
• Almost entirely agricultural
• Plantations grew cash crops

8. Effects of Triangular Trade
• One of the consequences of the triangular trade
was that New England had a lot of rum-making
distilleries because that’s what they contributed
also they motivated other countries to start
shipbuilding
• Racism was born
• White superiority
• Slave profits created diverse enterprise
• The Americas was making so much money that
they eventually started to govern themselves

9. Effects of The Great Awakening
• People are now not afraid to confront religious
authority
• If you don’t like something about a religion
then you can branch off and start your own
• Colonists realized that political power does
not reside with English monarch but in self
governance
• Prepared America for war of independence

10. Effects of the Enlightenment
• Leaders of the revolution took a lot of ideas
from Enlightenment thinkers
• Locke’s concept of natural rights inspired
some rights in America
• Also the fact that not necessarily a king has to
rule and anybody can rule was adapted from
the enlightenment
• The concept of checks and balances also came
from the Enlightenment