3 COLONIAL REGIONS

NEW ENGLAND COLONIES

• 1: Settlers were mainly English Puritans. 2: They came seeking freedom in religion.
• Most New Englanders made a living by farming, fishing, hunting, or building ships.
• Many villagers attended religious services. They also pay taxes to help churches.
• The New England colonies included Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut,
• Rhode Island. In 1636 Roger Williams found Rhode Island.

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• He found Rhode Island for religious reasons.
• These colonies were along the Atlantic.
• It was in the Northeast part of America

MIDDLE COLONIES

• The colonies here were New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
• The first settlers were from the Netherlands and Sweden. Then English settlers came
• Soon the Dutch outnumbered them in New York and New Jersey.
• Delaware was New Sweden until 1664. No American colonies were founded by
• Germans but German settlers were a large group in much of Pennsylvania.

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• Part of the Appalachian mountains stretched over Pennsylvania.
• New York was New Netherland until 1664.
• Burlington was the Colonial Capital of New Jersey.
• Philadelphia was the colonial capital of Delaware.

SOUTHERN COLONIES

• The colonies r Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
• The first people in the Southern colonies were Englishmen.
• The Englishmen started large one-crop farms called plantations.
• Later settlers included Germans, Scots, and Scots-Irish.
• Those settlers had smaller farms inland.

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• Although the Southern colonies were Anglican, most colonists practiced other faiths
• The Southern colonies relied on a large agriculture.
• Coastal port cities had ships busy with slaves.
• The southern colony also brought in and sold lots of tobacco and cotton.
• The Appalachian mountains were west of Virginia and North and South Carolina