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    Southern Colonies Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia Virginia was the first successful southern colony, Maryland became at first a catholic experiment and then quickly mirrored Virginia for its cash crops. The Carolinas had been created after the english civil war ended. Challenges from France and Spain led the king to want a buffer zone between the cash crop Carolinas and enemies, thus Georgia was created. Southern colonies depended on slaves whether it was for the

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    Although each of the four colonies is distinct, I think no two are more different than the New England and Southern Colonies. Each colony developed differently based in large part by the first people to settle them. Those in the north came to America for religious reasons were those in the south were more interested in economic interests. Both colonies grew and thrived in unique ways and helped shape our country to be what it is today. The first true goal of New England colonists was religious

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    Major Lifestyles Distinctions in the Northern and Southern Colonies In the early history of the United States, 13 colonies were founded by English settlers. The main reasons European colonist came to America were, looking for freedom of religion or seeking economic opportunity. The first colony funded was Virginia in 1607, and the last was Georgia in 1733. Each colony was founded for a unique reason, but were all very similar. However, what begins with small a population, become in a short time a

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    pronounced in the southern colonies. The colonists in the 17th century supposedly took religion a lot more seriously than the people of America today do. William Berkeley, the governor of Virginia, declared his colony to officially be Anglican in 1642. William Berkeley even went on to require colonists with different religious beliefs to leave the colony. To add, crops played a major role in the colonies. The southern colonies had the advantage of climate. This climate allowed the southern colonists

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    In the Southern colonies, agriculture such as farming corn and cotton was an essential way of living, however; the Northern colonies relied on manufacturing trade, but purchased cotton from the Southern colonies. Although the Northern and Southern colonies had different economic plans, Martin had a plan for the Native Americans which was to let them suffer starvation. According to Document 2, Martin two ways to have success in his plan was to keep them from “setting corn at home and fishing” and

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    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. The northern colonies consist of Massachusetts-Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and

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    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. Being closer

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    America was in full swing. Although the colonies all belonged to England, the colonies all varied in their own unique way. The northern and southern colonies, for instance, had already split into two separate cultures. The northern colonies were more focused on industry, with wide export range of machine-made products, while the southern colonies tended towards more agricultural pursuits, primarily cash crops like tobacco and cotton. Though the northern colonies were more uniform, a byproduct of the

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    New England colonies (Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire), The Middle Colonies (Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey) and The Southern Colonies (Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia). Most colonies use to have a two-house legislative body, although in most colonies the English government selected the upper house, except in Connecticut and Rhode Island, which were self-governing. The New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies grew differently

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    due, in part, to the differences and division among its founding thirteen English colonies along the country’s east coast. Those thirteen states collectively made up the Northern or New England colonies, the Mid-Atlantic or Middle colonies and the rural Southern colonies. Each of which had their own way of living and several differences that were unique to those regions. For the men and women who populated these colonies, their ‘new’ world may have slightly resembled England, hence the names New England

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