• Was established as an economic ventrue
• "lost colony"

• 1st permanent English settlement in North America
• 1607
• economic venture
• Virginia Company of London

• settled by separatists from the Church of England
• wanted to avoid religious persecution

• settled by Puritans
• wanted to avoid religious persecution

• settled by the Quakers

• wanted freedom to practice their faith without interference.

• settled by people who had been in debtors' prison in England
• They hoped to experience economic freedom
• started a new life in the new world

New England Colonies

Geography and Climate

• appalachian Mountains
• Boston harbor
• hilly terrain
• rocky soil
• jagged coastline
• moderate summers
• cold winters

Middle Colonies

Geography and Climate

• Applachian Mountains
• coastal lowlands
• harbors and bays
• wide deep rivers
• mild winters
• moderate climate

Southern

Geography and climate

• Appalachian Mountains
• Piedmont
• Atlantic Coastal Plain
• good harbors and rivers
• humid climate
• hot summers
• mild winters

New England

Social/Political Life

• Villages
• Churches center of life
• religious reformers and separatists

Civic Life: town meetings

Middle

Social/Political Life

• Villages and cities
• varied and diverse lifestyles
• diverse religions

Civic life: market town

Southern

Social/Political Life

• plantations
• slavery
• mansions
• indentured servants
• fewer cities
• fewer schools
• belonged to Church of England

Civic Life: counties

People in the Colonies

Large landowner

• lived perdominately in the south
• relied on indentured servants and/or enslaved African Americans for labor
• were educated in some cases
• had a rich social culture

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People in the Colonies

Farmers

• Worked the land according to the region
• relied on family members for labor

People in the Colonies

Artisans  

• worked as craftsmen in towns and on plantations
• lived in small villages and cities

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People in the Colonies

Women

• Worked as caretakers, house-workers and homemakers
• were not allowed to vote
• had few opportunities for getting an education

People in the Colonies

Free African Americans

• were able to own land
• had economic freedom and could work for pay and decided how to spend their money
• were not allowed to vote

People in the Colonies

Indentured servants

• were men and women and did not have money for passage to the colonies and who agreed to work without pay for a person who paid for their passage.
• were free at the end of their contract.

People in the Colonies

Enslaved African Americans

• Were captured in their native African and sold to slave traders
• they were shipped to the colonies where they were sold into slavery
• were owned as property for life without any rights.
• were often born into slavery - children of an enslaved African Americans were born into slavery

NEW ENGLAND

RESOURCES

MIDDLE

RESOURCES

Capital resources: tools, buildings

SOUTHERN COLONIES

RESOURCES

Specialization

NEW ENGLAND

• Fishing
• shipbuilding
• naval supplies
• metal tools and equipment

Specialization

MIDDLE

• Livestock
• grains
• fish

Specialization

SOUTHERN

• Tobacco
• rice
• cotton
• indigo
• forest products (lumber, tar, pitch)