USHC 1.1Summarize the distinct characteristics of each colonial region in the settlement and development of British North America, including religious, social, political, and economic differences.

US HISTORY

EOC REVIEW

Motives for Colonizing

RELIGIOUS

ECONOMIC

Thirteen Colonies

New EnglandMassachusetts

Mid-AtlanticPennsylvania

SouthernVirginiaSouth Carolina

Religion

New England

Mid-Atlantic

Southern

Religious “Freedom”

(Tolerance)

LIMITED

Diversity & Tolerance

Religion NOT

a motive

The “Pilgrims” (Plymouth)

Religious Dissidents

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Puritans

John Winthrop Governor

City on

a Hill!

TOLERATION

Williams Hutchinson

Religious dissenters, such as Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson, were

EXILED.

Williams started the Rhode Island colony.

(Limited) Religious Toleration & Diversity

Mid-Atlantic Colonies

Quakers Pennsylvani

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Catholics Maryland

“All About the Benjamins”

Southern Colonies

Church of England

Established

Religion

New England

Mid-Atlantic

Southern

Religious “Freedom”

(Tolerance)

LIMITED

Diversity & Tolerance

Religion NOT

a motive

Society

New England

Southern

Egalitarian(Clergy

Dominant)

Hierarchical

(Landowners Dominant)

Plantation Slavery(Southern Colonies)

English Political Traditions

Magna Carta Parliament

English Political

Traditions

Popular Government

Representative

Government

Town Meetings

(New England)

EgalitarianDemocratic

House of Burgesses(Virginia)

Aristocratic Representative

Economy

New England

Mid-Atlantic

Southern

CommerceShipbuilding

Fishing

Staple CropsWheat, Corn

Family Farms

CASH CropsTobacco, Rice,

Indigo

Slave Labor

The Triangular Trade

RAW GOODS

FINISHED

GOODS

SLAVES

Colonial Trade Routes

Mercantilism

Economic Regulation(Primarily of Trade)

Navigation Acts (1651)

SALUTARY NEGLECT

Strict Enforcement