Colonial Overview

Answered more A’s than anything else◦ Northern Colonies

Answered more B’s than anything else◦ Middle Colonies

Answered more C’s than anything else◦ Southern Colonies

Answered more D’s than anything else◦ England

Personality Quiz Results

Reason for Coming: ◦ Religious Freedom

Economy:◦ Bad Soil leads to new ways

of making money Manufacturing/Trading Fishing/Shipbuilding

◦ Subsistence Farming: Farming to feed families

Religion: Highly Valued◦ Had to be a Puritan, not

accepting of other religions

New England Colonies

Middle Colonies Reason for Coming:

◦ Religious Freedom and Money Economy:

◦ New York/New Jersey Trading, Shipbuilding,

Manufacturing◦ Pennsylvania/Delaware

Farming (Bread Basket) Staple Crops: Crops that are

always needed Religion: Valued

◦ Quakers: Bring Religious Tolerance

◦ Accepted all religions

Southern Colonies Reason for Coming:

◦ Economic Reasons Economy:

◦ Agriculture: Focused on Cash Crops Tobacco, Rice, Indigo, Cotton

Religion: Not as Valued ◦ Not a huge priority, spread out

communities◦ Maryland: Settled by

Catholics,◦ Passed Toleration Act

Freedom to practice whatever type of Christianity you want

Education

Most Educated

Least Educated

New England:

Mandatory Education

Taught students to read the Bible

Established Harvard University

Middle

Apprenticeships and Skilled Jobs

Taught people trades like farming, trading, blacksmithing

South

Focused on Agriculture

Spread out plantations made it hard for education

Rich= Tutors

Government

Direct Democracy

Representative Democracy

New England:

Town Hall Meetings:

Church going men voted on laws for the whole community

Worked because they were small towns

Middle

Proprietary Government:

Colony made laws based on English laws made by the King

South

House of Burgesses:

Citizens voted on representatives who voted on laws

Necessary because of large population