Colonial City

Their environment is an ideal place for large farms and the lowland and bays made it possible to create harbors, which provided trading opportunities where the three regional colonies met. Their society was more varied, cosmopolitan, and tolerant that in New England. It was filled with large houses, broad, tree-lined streets and busy docks. The region is where trade dominated the coast and farming dominated the hinterland. Their social lives were not very set, because most of the states declared themselves independent. In political matters, New York was important as a political center, at one time it was even acting as the nation’s capital. Things were very different in the south compared to these middle

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,

Maier explains that the word "city" is used not so much to distinguish a place by its size as by its function. Boston and New York were considered cities before 1800, although compared to Paris and London of the same period, they were quite small. Paris, for example, already had more than a half million people in 1700. London had 575,000 people in 1750 and grew to nearly 900,000 over the next five decades. At the turn of the eighteenth century, Boston, the larger of the two American cities, had a population of 6,700, while New York's population was closer to 5,000. Clearly, the two American

Religion played a huge role in New England. The main reason why it was so important was because of the Puritans. The Puritans lived really strict lives and wanted everyone to follow what they did. If people didn’t follow the lifestyle of a Puritan they would had to encounter challenges and difficulties and could even be exiled to Rhode Island. In Chesapeake there was Anglican, but they weren’t that strict like the Puritans were in New England. They had more religious freedom and tolerance. Anglicanism caused more rational and formal thinking by people. The Maryland acts of toleration was founded by Lord Baltimore granted a religious freedom but only to Christians, this was to protect the Catholics.

Some colonies relied on their geography, some on their people, and some on both. New England colonies relied on their people for trade because of their bad farmland. In the middle colonies they needed their geography for farming which helped their economy grow from trade. In the Southern Colonies their geography helped them grow crops on plantations to trade. All three colonies they had skilled workers which affected their economy by not needing to trade certain things but instead make those items themselves. The geography and people largely affected the economy by what they had and who they were.

The three colonies all wanted to make money but they had to go about it in different ways. This was mainly due to what they had available. The New England Colonies were mainly agricultural farmers. With all the water reservoirs like Cape Cod there were plenty of fish so lots of people became fishermen. There were a lot of lumberjacks to cut down trees and export them to England. The Middle Colonies were extremely different because they set up extensive cosmopolitan cities reminiscent of New York. They had many specialists like doctors, lawyers, accountants, and teachers. They traded a lot with in North America and occasionally overseas. The Southern Colonies primarily depended on cotton and tobacco plantations. As the plantations grew they had to employ black slaves. The plantations were fully self contained with their own blacksmith, teachers and professionals. So there were no big cities or towns. The main plantations traded directly with Europe via the Mississippi. The three colonies all made money differently with their diverse professions and traders.

Starting in the late 1600’s to the early 1700’s, the great nation of America began to take its shape. The Mid- Atlantic colonies, consisting of Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, and New Jersey, were especially productive in this growing time period. Through their diverse population they created an atmosphere of amity throughout the region, attracting large numbers of European immigrants. Their extremely tolerant habits in regards to differences in religious beliefs anticipated the American future. The colonies not only shaped the way for thousands of new settlers coming to the New World, but they also began an empire of agriculture and trade for generations to follow due to their prestigious land and prime location. The colonists during the early 18th century in the Mid Atlantic region

Urban seaports: Cities like Boston, New York, Newport, Philadelphia, Charleston became major urban seaports and commercial centers populated by rich and poor alike.

A mixture of the northern and southern colonies, the Mid-Atlantic colonies were nicknamed the “breadbasket colonies,” and for good reason. Their fertile soil and mild climate allowed them to grow a large quantity of crops, most of which were grains. As such, that was also their main export. Not only did they grow an abundance of crops, but their population grew rapidly as well. Areas such as Pennsylvania and New York attracted an abundance of settlers, due to the large size of the land that was being given away. It was also the most diverse of the regions, from Quakers in Pennsylvania to the Dutch Calvinists in Albany, and as such, the most religiously tolerant. Due to its size, diversity, and abundance of goods, the Mid-Atlantic colonies played a large role in the Enlightenment and Great Awakening’s effect on America. They were home to one of the Enlightenment’s greatest thinkers, Benjamin Franklin, and housed some very liberal ideals, such as religious freedom and a greater role for women in society.

The Middle Colonies and Chesapeake focused more on Tobacco, rice and grains such as wheat production cash crops due to suitable soil, where Georgia and the Carolinas only focused on rice cash crops bringing in less of a profit. The production of tobacco was a large reason why The Middle Colonies and Chesapeake survived because of the amount of money it brought into the regions. If tobacco did not boom these regions would most likely have not made it to where they did. Trade was very important in receiving a profit. They relied heavily on England to trade resources with.

One of the biggest difference in the 3 different colonial regions was their Economies. Due to the rich and fertile soil that the Southern colonies possessed along with the warm climate of the area, farming was a main source of income. Wealthy Englishmen set up huge plantations with hundreds of acres of land in order to farm cash crops and other goods. The less fortunate would subsistence farm inland in hopes of one day being able to run a large plantation of their own. The economy in the middle colonies also relied on farming to an extent. They grew staple crops in excess earning them the name of the “Breadbasket Colony”. Due to the deep harbors and thick forests ship building was also a common practice in the middle colonies. The many harbors in the middle colonies also made trade a very important part of

    The economies of the Chesapeake and New England Colonies were distinctly different. In the eighteenth century, tobacco was the greatest contributor to its successful economy. Tobacco also contributed to the Chesapeake society, including the settlement pattern centered around plantations and the importance of slave labor. “Between 1690 and 1770, planters imported 100,000 people of African descent to the Chesapeake to work in the tobacco fields

The Middle and New England colonies were important colonies in forming the United States. The Middle colonies consisted of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. In the New England colonies there were New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. These two colonies were very similar and different in many ways.

During the mid-17th century the colonies' purpose was to fulfill a mercantilist role, in which raw materials were exported from the colonies as resources for English manufactured

The colonial days were so important because if we didn't have these settlers come and build the colonies, we wouldn’t be living here today. The 13 colonies that have made up this land are New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. There were so many things they did to get food, water, resources, and etc. They were very creative people and used lots of different inventions to live and get resources that they didn't have. One was the triangular trade route. The name was given by the route which the goods from the colonies were taken back to Europe. Europe made the things they traded for and sold them back to another territory. While the triangular trade route started in the 1500’s it really didn't start working until the mid -1600’s. Not all tribes used the triangular trade route some tribes just used their own inventions to get from place to place. They had many jobs back then to keep the places running.