Breadbasket Colonies - Also known as the Middle colonies, these colonies were main producers of grains such as corn, wheat and barley. This was characterized by good soil and a good climate for agriculture. These grains were important because they could be sold or traded in other colonies or New England. The colonies were included Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York and New Jersey. These colonies also had a significant amount of forests for lumber, which was important because England had a shortage of lumber.
North Carolina - The Northern part of the Carolinas that differed from the Southern part in that there were mainly small tobacco farms rather than large plantations with a major reliance on slavery. It was known for its bad transportation, few good ports, democracy, and self-government. It was established originally by the Virginia colonists.
New England colonies - These colonies included New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Rhode Island and Connecticut. They were known for their extensive supplies of lumber, fur, and fish, considering their climate was too cold, soil too rocky, and the winters too long to be know for any sort of agriculture. The colonies were democratic, and also had a domestic labor source, unlike the slavery in the southern colonies. These colonies were significant because of their shipbuilding and their participation in the manufacturing of rum for triangular trade. They were also mainly Puritans.
Plymouth - Settled by English protestants,
The New England colonies didn’t rely on land to make money because they had a diverse economy and also tobacco and other cash crops needed a specific climate to be grown in. Although no one became as wealthy as those in the south, they had a very constant economy. They didn’t have to rely on one crop instead they were able to rely on rum, fur trade, fishing, trade, logging and shipbuilding. The next difference is religion. The south had religion but it wasn’t as big of a deal as the New England colonies. This was because the south spent most of the time farming that although they did have church agriculture was more significant. The New England colonies, especially Massachusetts, had a very strict religious system. Failure to follow this system could result in death or banishment. The last difference between them is the labor. In the south they needed a lot of slaves because crops like tobacco required constant attention like making sure it was healthy and also doing a lot of watching over those plants to make sure they were being grown properly. The south was also a slave society in that in order for it to be successful they would need a lot of slaves. On the other hand the New England colonies didn’t need slaves because the crops that they used didn’t need the attention that cash crops needed. Another reason is because they
To best utilize the Middle colonies’ available assets, we could attack the French by sea using the wide and deep rivers located there, but it could be hard for the ships to stay out of sight. We could, along with attacking by sea, use the colonies’ indentured servants and unskilled workers to fight instead of doing their usual duties, using skilled workers to make muskets and gunpowder. At the same time, the army could be negatively affected because the indentured servants and unskilled workers are not soldiers.
During the 17th and 18th century, English residents felt that England was over-crowded and intolerable. They wanted to lessen these problems that rose up because of the large population increase and to establish more religious freedom (Horn). The English believed that the best way to go about this was to colonize the New World. Subsequently, many colonies began to develop, and of these colonies, Massachusetts Bay and Virginia were the most well-known. The early settlements of Massachusetts and Virginia were both established by similar groups of people at the same time; furthermore, their contrasting beginnings as a colony, views on religion, and method of economic stability all contributed to our American heritage today.
The New England colonies did not have very good soil, but they did have trees. They grew what they could, but their economy was based off of their timber industry and fish, which were plentiful in the colonies. The middle colonies had very fertile soil and used it to their advantage. They grew crops such as wheat and tobacco. They became known as “The Breadbasket Colonies” for their large supply of wheat.
Although both the New England Colonies (Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire), and the Chesapeake Colonies (Virginia and Maryland) were both settled by people of English origin, by 1700 they were both very distinct for a multitude of reasons; Three of which being, their economics, African Slave population, and their life expectancies.
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.
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.
New England was more democratic and had compact towns that held town meetings. Since there were only small farms due to the cold climate and less than ideal soil, there was no slavery and a less defined hierarchy unlike the Chesapeake colonies which had an aristocratic dominated assembly. The New England colonies were less dependent on agriculture as they were on manufacturing of large cities and industries including shipping, fishing, shipbuilding, lumber, and whaling unlike the Chesapeake colonies that were heavily dependent on tobacco
When we think of our country now, we think about how it is separated into states, but back then the states were part of colonies. Some of the main colonies were the Chesapeake colonies which consisted of Virginia and Maryland, the middle colonies were Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, and lastly, the New England colonies which were Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. In the colonial regions of New England, Chesapeake and the middle colonies they all share similarities and differences, most predominantly shown in family life, rank and status.
Both the northern and southern colonies had a lot in common (Kennedy, 72). They were agriculture societies, English in language and customs, Protestant in religion; there was social mobility, and the colonies possessed some form of self-government (Kennedy, 72). Also, both southern and northern colonies use some form of slavery either Africans captured as slaves or indentured people. The most important factor explaining the different ways of life between the southern and northern colonies was the climate.
The reason for the diverse economic development were the different climates and natural resources. New England as a region with many trees, rivers, natural harbors and a long coast. All these natural resources provided for an economy based on fishing, shipbuilding, and lumbering. The Middle Colonies had good soil, and thus specialized in farming and growing crops such as wheat. The middle colonies also served as a trade center for all the regions due to the abundance of of rivers . There were many cash crops present in the south such as tobacco and rice. This was taken advantage of, and the Southern colonies specialized in farming these crops, along with cotton in large plantations. The New England and Middle Colonies also had farms, but they were small. This specialization allowed for a multitude of goods to be exported in exchange for other goods through triangular trade. Even though there was some trading between the colonies and regions, most people relied on small farms in their area, giving a sense of 3 separate regions and not a unified
Agriculture was a prominent feature in colonial economy. In all of the colonies, it was a way for colonists to obtain food and income. In New England, subsistence farming was common. In the Middle Colonies, there was rich soil that produced the perfect environment for crops such as wheat and corn, which was exported as to Europe and the West Indies, creating a source of income from agriculture. In the Southern Colonies, there were subsistence farms and plantations. Plantations grew their own food, as well as cash crops that created a source of income.
The thirteen original English colonies are founded along the Atlantic coast of the Americas. Each group of colonies had its unique aspects in many areas, from architecture to economics, and various more characteristics. They all had a common goal, which was to govern themselves and have a say in how they were represented. They were divided into three groups. The New England colonies which consisted of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. The Middle colonies which included Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey. The last group, the Southern colonies, which included Georgia, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. Each of the thirteen colonies had specific economic, social, and political developments.
The northern and southern colonies, which were founded in the early 1600s. Both shared similarities and differences in reasons for settlement, economics basis, and geography. The northern and southern colonies also shared differences and similarities for hardships, leaders, relationships with the Native Americans, problems and resolutions, growths and changes, and the types of governments.
Both the New England colonies and the Southern colonies seemed as though they might be the same. They both started out with the majority of people being from England, they were both in the New World, and they were both ruled by England but, as time went on this theory was proven wrong. The New England colonies and the Southern colonies had many common characteristics but these two regions were very different geographically, politically, and socially.