American Colonies Vs New England Colonies

As more and more Europeans moved to the New World, colonies were created for specific groups of people. Colonies were created for varying religions, lifestyles, and economic reasons. The New England colonies had numerous difference and few similarities with the Southern Colonies. These differences created distinct features of the regions and the people who lived there. Due to the geographic location of the Southern Colonies, their economic development relied mainly on agriculture.

The different colonies -- New England, Middle, and Southern -- all have things in common and they also have many differences. The way the colonial system was made is that if the colonies were to survive the husband and wife had to work together. However, there was definitely a difference in power between the father (was in control) and the mother (who cleaned and kept the house in order).

New England and the Middle Colonies economies were largely based in manufacturing, lacking the reliance on slaves that the Southern Colonies held. New England was largely into fishing and timber. It was also the shipping hub of goods for every other colony as well. Much less money was made than in the South, but the people enjoyed the independence working for themselves came with. The Middle Colonies were into manufacturing as well, but on a much smaller scale than New England. The Middle Colonies dealt with farming and producing grain. Furthermore, with New York being an important port, trade along the river was a large part too. The South’s economy was vastly different as slave labor and tobacco were major sources of wealth for landowners. Tobacco,

Brinkley’s contradiction exists because throughout the early 18th Century nearly all colonist considered themselves to be loyal English subjects. Despite this, the American colonist simultaneously, and inadvertently began to develop their own unique identity. One that wasn’t necessarily a conscious decision to be different from England, but one that was largely shaped by, as Brinkley states, “the nature of the New World” (53). American colonist tried hard to maintain their cultural Englishness, but were being shaped by environmental factors in the areas where they now lived. This led to unique differences between the colonies and England in terms of population, economics, and society and religion, and political ideas.

To start it off they were located on opposite sides so they had different climates, the New England Colony was located in the North so there was stronger and longer winters while in the Southern Colonies, which was located in the south, so it was hotter and it was practically warm all year round. That led to different agricultural needs, the southern colony was huge on agriculture because they had fertile soil so they produced a lot of cash crops and were know for the tobacco, produced and exported by John Rolfe. Since the New England Colonies didn’t have much use for agriculture because they lacked good soil so there wasn’t many crops, they mostly fished, build ships, and traded mostly with fur. That leads to slavery, since the southern plantations required a lot of work there was a lot more slaves in the south then the north. Southern Colonies had the largest slave population who worked on the Slave Plantations, which grew cotton, tobacco, indigo (a purple dye), and other crops. Also religion was very different, the New England Colonies were strictly Puritans and didn’t tolerate other religions; while the Southern colonies were not dominated by a single religion they were mostly predominantly Anglicans and

Evaluate the extent to which the American colonies had developed a society different from that of the mother country by 1763.

We are going to start discussing the economic aspect of both colonies, it is important to note that the economic activities and trade of each colony depended on the environment in which the settlers lived. Geography and climate were important factors that impacted the economic and commercial activities between New England colonies and Southern colonies because these depended on the environment.

There were also many likenesses and differences between New England and Southern Economy. New England was more focused on living a peaceful, religious life. On the other hand, in the South they were focused on making as much money

A second difference in the colonies of the southern region and of New England comes in the basis of their economies. South Carolina was focusing on

Historically speaking, homosapiens have inhabited the North America for millions of years as they came over on Pangaea’s land bridges. However, it wasn't until Columbus’s “discovery” of the Americas and the Great Migration, that the population of North America began to stabilize and grow to form the two distinct regions. These two distinct regions eventually became known as the New England colonies and the Chesapeake Bay colonies. Some of the differences between the two regions included motivation of colonists, immigration patterns, and settlement patterns.

The Southerners would make the majority of their profits off of plantations. A plantations are large farms.The colonists purchased slaves on board ship Ashley Ferry to use their labor (Doc 8). The slaves were not paid for their work therefore the colonists could keep their profits. However, in New England they had many towns and cities which were made up of many jobs, including shipbuilding, lumbering, livestock, school teaching, etc. As a result of the schools they had taxes. Taxes are school charges. Therefore all the colonists had to pay for the school to keep it running. Also they had the triangular trade which was the trade between England, Africa, and the colonies. This is how the colonies got most products, by trading to other countries for new material. As a result the colonies made profit because of the

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