| What was the New England Colonies Geography? | -Barren Soil
-Wilderness
-Cold Winters
-Natural Harbors |
| What was the Middle Colonies Geography? | -Rolling hills
-Fertile Soil
-Abundance of resources
-Wilderness in the interior
-Some harbors |
| What was the Southern Colonies Geography? | -Flat, humid and swampy on the
coast with fertile soil
-Hilly and rugged inland
-Abundance of rivers and
tributaries |
| What was the New England Colonies Economy? | -Shipping/Ship building
-Fishing
-Small, self-sufficient farms and
businesses
-Labor: Families, free peoples |
| What was the Middle Colonies Economy? | -Small farms and businesses
-Shipping
-Lumber
-Trapping
-Labor: Families, free peoples and
indentured servants |
| What was the Southern Colonies Economy? | -Coast: Plantation, cash crops
(cotton, tobacco, rice)
Labor: Enslaved persons
-Inland: Smaller farms, hunting
Labor: Poor whites and indentured
servants |
| What were the people of New England Colonies like? | -Puritan culture: strict order, middle
class, work ethic
-Purify/reform Church of England
-Some breakaway groups in Rhode
Island and Connecticut
-Migrants from England
-Class of Merchants/shopkeepers |
| What were the people of Middle Colonies like? | -Diversity in religions and ethnicities:
Quakers in Pa, Huguenots and Jews in
N.Y, Presbyterians in N.J.
-German, French and English speakers
-Class of Merchants/shopkeepers |
| What were the people of Southern Colonies like? | -English aristocrats
-Enslaved class
-Poor whites (Scots/Irish) in inland
areas
-Strongest loyalty to Church of
England |
| What was the government like in New England Colonies? | -Direct form of Democracy
-Government built around the town
meeting: whole participation
-Puritan law in Mass.- close
relationship between Puritan religion
and the law
-Other areas were more tolerant |
| What was the government like in Middle Colonies? | -Representative democracy
-Lawmakers among merchant/artisan
class
-Tolerance for all religious/ethnic
groups
-Equality under the law insured a secular
society. |
| What was the government like in Southern Colonies? | -Aristocracy: Rich landowners
dominated politics
-Law makers were among
educated/landowning elite
-Legislative bodies created to
represent people (House of
Burgesses in Va)
-Little or no tolerance for poor
whites/enslaved persons |
