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1
ENGLISH COLONIES IN N.A.
  • Economic Pursuits
  • Southern Colonies
  • Virginia (Chesapeake Bay)
  • Tobacco Plantations operated by Indentured
    Servants and Slaves
  • Northern Carolinas
  • Fur trading with Native Amerindians (deer)
  • An ecological disaster, changes natives way of
    life

2
ENGLISH COLONIES IN N.A.
  • Economic Pursuits
  • Southern Colonies (cont.)
  • Southern Carolinas
  • Rice and Indigo slave labor plantations
  • Based on Caribbean model (Barbados)
  • Slaves and their descendents form the majority of
    the population

3
ENGLISH COLONIES IN N.A.
  • Economic Pursuits
  • New England Colonies
  • Poor soils for cash crops led to an economy based
    initially on - Fur trading
  • Forest products
  • Fishing
  • Over time N.E.s economy becomes focused on
    commerce and shipping, led by Bostons merchant
    class. Large population follows.

4
ENGLISH COLONIES IN N.A.
  • Economic Pursuits
  • Middle Atlantic Colonies
  • New York , initially settled by the Dutch, became
    an important commercial and shipping center
    (location outlet for grain heading to Caribbean
    and Europe)
  • Pennsylvania became a wealthy grain-exporting
    colony run by free family farmers.

5
ENGLISH COLONIES IN N.A.
  • Significant Differences
  • Use of Slavery
  • In the south the economy became based on the use
    of slavery
  • Whereas in the north the economy was based on
    slave-less commercial activities

6
ENGLISH COLONIES IN N.A.
  • Significant Differences (cont.)
  • Social Hierarchy
  • In the south there was a strong sense of social
    positioning planter class on top, with slaves
    at bottom
  • In the north there was less sense of hierarchy as
    there was a more homogenous population

7
ENGLISH COLONIES IN N.A.
  • Significant Differences (cont.)
  • Urban Centers
  • In the south people were widely distributed, with
    large plantations (rural) and no large cities to
    speak of / Charleston
  • In the north and the middle colonies people
    tended to centralize, with major business centers
    as the source of commercial activity (New York,
    Philadelphia and Boston)

8
ENGLISH COLONIES IN N.A.
  • Significant Differences (cont.)
  • Government
  • In the south the governor was appointed by
    British royalty with a town centered
    representative organization (House of
    Burgesses,VA)
  • In the north the governor was elected by the
    colonists, and the government featured a lower
    legislative house

9
ENGLISH COLONIES IN N.A.
  • Significant Differences (cont.)
  • Religion
  • In the south the predominant religions were
    Anglican and/or Catholicpush was for religious
    toleration
  • In the north/MA, the predominant religion was the
    Puritan faith (wanted to purify the Anglican
    church)
  • The middle colonies also featured the Quaker
    religion
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