Colonial Development United States History CHSAS

Colonial Development

United States History

CHSAS

New England Colonies

• Religious groups – wanted religious freedom for themselves

• Puritans

COLONISTS MEET RESISTANCE

• New England Colonists (Puritans) soon conflicted with the Native Americans over land & religion

• King Philip’s War was fought in 1675 between the Natives and Puritans ending a year later with many dead and the Natives retreating

Middle Colonies

SETTLING THE MIDDLE COLONIES• Dominated by Dutch

and Quaker settlers, the Middle Colonies were founded in the mid-1600s

• William Penn led Quaker as they colonized Pennsylvania and Delaware

I believed in religious tolerance.

Southern

Colonies

Southern Colonies

• In the South, rural Plantations with a single cash crops- were common

Southern Plantation

Diversity of Colonies

New England, Middle Colonies, and the South – all developed distinct economies.

New England – cities, trade, smaller and more diverse farming

Middle – diverse, farming, trading

Southern – cash crops, large plantations, few cities

ENGLAND’S COLONIES PROSPER

• By 1752, England controlled all 13 colonies.

How did they control these colonies that were an ocean away?

Mercantilism & Navigation Acts