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1750 British North America
13 Colonies divided into New England, Middle, Chesapeake and Deep South
Characterized by? Are British colonies more similar or different?
How do they define themselves?
Government
• British Government set up?
• Colonial Government set up?
Colonial legislatures, colonial governors
Terms: House of Burgesses, town meetings, etc.
Who has ultimate authority to make final decisions?
Types of Colonies
• Royal colony- Royal Governor answers to king examples? Virginia
• Proprietary colony- Colony given to man or group to settle Georgia…..Pa…..S.Carolina
• Charter Colony? Virginia begins as one with Virginia Company and Mass begins as one
Reason for Settlement
• Virginia? • Massachusetts?• Rhode Island?• Maryland?• Pennsylvania?• New Amsterdam? New York?• South Carolina?• Georgia?
Economics
• Triangular Trade: Trade from Europe to Africa to America
• Mercantilism: European policy that colonies exist for the economic benefit of the mother country……colonies provide raw materials…..mother country provides manufactured goods
• Most colonists are farmers…….
• N. England economy?
Economics
• Middle Colonies:
• Cash Crop farms/Plantations
• Chesapeake colonies:
• Lower South colonies:
Religion
• American colonies founded off of Protestant Reformation-
• Almost all colonists Protestant• Each of the colonies religiously different story• Mass, Ct.- Theocracy!!!!!overwhelmingly
Puritan….Congregational and homogenous• Rhode Island great exception to New England
homogenous story….R.I. begun in opposition to Mass allowing for religious freedom
Colonial Religion Cont.
• Pennsylvania: William Penn is originator:Pa. originally founded as place for QuakersHow different from Puritans in Mass? Overwhelmingly diverse with many denominations• Virginia- Initially Anglican or Church of England
in 1700’s new development of methodists and baptists and others
• Maryland- Initially founded for Catholics…Act of Toleration 1649 famous for allowing all
Christians freedom of religion
Social Populace
• New England overwhelmingly living in small towns with homogenous populace
Central N.England hub? Middle Colonies- overwhelmingly fertile areas for
great growing opps. Breadbasket of the colonies overwhelmingly heterogenous
Middle colonial hub? • Chesapeake and Lower South very few townsHub of Lower South? Usually live on farms or plantations
overwhelmingly biracial
Labor Source of midcentury
• Indentured Servants prominent in colonies especially in 1600’s
• What is an ind. Servant?
• African Slavery becomes prominent in 1700’s
• Where is African slavery legal in the colonies?
• How is it different in the different regions?