Economy New England differentiated from the Southern Colonies in many different ways. Economically, New England based their wealth on fishing, ship building and mainly trade. Unlike the other Southern Colonies, farmland was very poor due to the rocky soil that was unsuitable for crops. The Southern Colonies grew crops such as rice, tobacco, and cotton to make money. New England Colonists imported agricultural products while the Southern colonists exported agricultural products. Winters in the Southern Colonies were cold and rainy while the summers were hot and humid while New England had a cooler summer climate and longer colder winters. People from New England tended to live longer because there were fewer diseases than in the Southern …show more content…
Many people with families usually moved to this area. Property and riches was usually inherited from generation to generation. For the people of the Southern Colonies, life emerged as rugged and rural. Many people moved to the south for more economic opportunity because the south had such big cash crops. Also, colonies in the south owned slaves and indentured servants. Farmers needed help caring for the crops.
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The New England Colonies were self governed. The government was highly influenced by religion Politics whereas in the Southern Colonies government was as varied as their religious preferences. New England was governed by Puritans. They began to build a democratic system where majority rules and only members of the church could decide on government issues. The General Court made laws and governed the company. The government was supported by taxes.
The southern colonies were also self governed. Virginia had an elected assembly called the House of Burgess. The king of England appointed a royal governor, who in turn selected his council. This body was the upper house. These men were responsible for judicial and administrative matters in their area. Virginia House of Burgesses was a legislature picked by the people. The Pilgrims had said that they would follow the laws they made in the Mayflower Compact. Both of these are early examples of
...y because the colonists had spread out in the region in order to protect their property. As a result of Bacon's Rebellion, the plantation owners were concerned about the relationship between the black slaves and the white indentured servantsboth groups were oppressed and poor. In the South, those who were poor had almost no hope of "climbing the ladder" in the community because social class was important in the coloniesthis kept the poor settlers separate from the rich and successful settlers.
Some of the similarities between the colonies was they all had good land and good resources. Example the new England colonies had good resources and good trade. Many people moved there hoping to profit from the trade. Some also came to practice their religion freely. They built their colonies starting off from small farms. The middle colonies settled for almost the same reason as the new England colonies. What they did different though from the new England colonies was that they had more opportunities to profit from. They had choices like trading and farming. The middle colonies had jobs like ship building and lumbering. The southern colonies were very different though they lived by a river and in the wetlands. Something similar though they
In regard to government, Maryland was a proprietary colony which means that it gave the Calverts (its owners) the right to appoint all people and to control the government or the land. In broad terms, the Southern Colonies were ruled by the high-class people who developed a political system that honored local laws and customs based upon their elite, socially-stratified beliefs. Additionally, in 1619, the House of Burgesses was formed. The House is a legislative assembly made
The New England, Middle and Southern colonies were all English ruled, but yet very different. Among their distinctions, was the geography which played an important role in shaping these colonies. New England attracted Puritan farmers who wanted to separate from the Catholic Church. But because of the bone dry soil in the North, these colonists found they couldn't continue with their traditional ways of farming. However, with the immense amounts of water that surrounded them, they found that they could fish and trade. The Middle colonies on the other, hand had a moderate amount of everything. The fertile soil and the major seaports such as Philadelphia and New York, allowed these Middle colonists to make a living any way they saw fit. This led to the brisk development of the Middle Seaboard . Unlike the Middle and Northern colonies, the Southern colonies had large amounts of fertile land allowing for the development of large plantations. Because farming the plantations was the economic thrust for the South, towns and cities developed slowly. Thusly Geography greatly affected the lifestyles of these regions in the New World.
Geographically, North and South were very different places. The pastures of New England were similar to those found in England, suitable for a variety of uses. Hot Southern prairie lands were perfect for cotton growing, a lucrative business at this time. Following the invention of Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin, the South became increasingly dependent on this crop, and an entire society grew out of it. The society was one of wealthy planters, who led a life similar to the landed gentry of England, controlling politics and society of the day. In the fields laboured Negro slaves, usually only a handful per plantation, though larger farms were occasionally seen. In addition, there lived poor whites, tenant farmers or smallholders, who eked out a living from the land. This contrasted sharply with Northern society, where industrialisation flourished, creating wealthy entrepreneurs and employing cheap immigrant labour. Given the localised nature of media, and difficulties of transport two cultures grew up in the same nation, remarkably different and often suspicious of one another.
Furthermore, according to professor Foner, each colony experienced distinct political development. In Virginia, the crown appointed governor, and local elite was in charge of the colony’s advancement. There was also the county court, or the Justices of Peace. Only the colonial assembly was elected. The House of Burgesses, established in 1639, was the first legislature in Jamestown. Contrary to Virginia, Maryland was a proprietary colony settled in 1632. The charter granted Cecilius Calver...
Between 1607 and 1733, Great Britain established thirteen colonies in the New World along the land’s eastern coast. England’s colonies included Virginia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maryland, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Though the colonies were classified as New England, middle or southern colonies, the colonists developed a unifying culture. With this new American culture, the colonists throughout the colonies began to think differently than their English cousins. Because colonial America displayed characteristics of a democratic society and, therefore, deviated from England’s monarchic ways, it was established as a democratic society.
To the south of New England were the middle colonies. There the soil was fertile, and the weather more acclimated to farming (Sarcelle, 1965). Rivers flowed west toward the frontier, enabling transportation. The middle colonies, as opposed to the relatively Puritan dominated New England, were very diverse in people. A mixture of Dutch, German, Swedes, English and other smaller groups were present in middle colonial cities such as New York (Higginbotham, 1996).
Southern colonies were hilly coast with grew cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar cans .also they had specific regions which gave way to religious freedoms.The founders of the Southern Colonies were, for the most part, out to make money. They brought their families, as did the New England colonists, and they kept their families together on the plantations.In the Southern Colonies and travel environment controlled social life. The Southern Colonies had a hard-and-fast three class system. Upper-class rich colony owners, middle-class small colony owners, lower class.The southern colonies were established early on after the settlement of Jamestown in 1607. At first, the south also relied on the forests and the water, but tobacco and cotton later emerged as cash crops. Initially, these crops were harvested by indentured servants, but with the growth of plantations, planters started to import slaves from Africa. In the South, there was a great divide between the rich and the poor. The Church of England was the dominant religion and the center of life for southerners. Laws were made by county governments and the economy centered around the large
“In Winthrop’s view, then, he had not in any way limited or reduced the authority of government by extending to church members a voice in the selection of the men who were to exercise the authority.”(Morgan,87) Winthrop’s government was simple, all laws were easy to understand and were able to interact with the people of the colony. What he originally aimed for is to make his colony a democracy, which it failed because the colony was still under control by the church not the people.
The Southern Colonies economy was mostly agricultural because if the crops did well, then so did the economy. Also, because of agriculture being mostly the major source of the economy, there were a lot of farms and plantations. Another thing that the Southern Colonies depended on for their economy was exporting materials
In the south, cotton was becoming a huge success for the southern farmer. Cotton, being a very laborious crop, required the ownership of many slaves per plantation. Unlike the immigrants of the north, slaves were property. Slaves were also much less of a profit. When a slave became ill he could not simply be replaced, he needed to be cared for, after all, this was the plantation owners property. On the other hand in the north if a worker became to ill to work, there were several immigrants waiting for the job.
The political difference between the New England and Chesapeake region was that New England government associate more with religious matter than the Chesapeake government. The New England regions included the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Plymouth colony, the New Hampshire colony, Maine colony, Connecticut colony, and Rhode Island colony. Massachusetts colony for example was governed as a theocracy government. As the first governor of Massachusetts colony once stated in A Model of Christian Charity (Written on board the Arbella on the Atlantic Ocean, 1630),"we shall be as a city upon a hill" a holy commonwealth that could be served as an example community to the rest of the world. The Massachusetts Bay colony placed great importance on religious matters. Only the church member were allowed to vote or held office position. Those who held office position would enforce the law requiring attendance at services. Jamestown, Maryland and the Carolinas were some colonies in the Chesapeake regions. The governments in these regions were less concerned about...
The United States of America was a mere dream to many people living across seas in Britain, a place where they could find God, gold, and glory (Lybbert, 2010). Upon arrival of what seemed to be the dreamland, settlers quickly realized that it would not take long for the newly established governments to institute their individual forms of creating economic wealth. Whatever early colonial economy was there had come from trapping and trading furs. Also at this time, the fishing industry was the primary source of wealth in the Massachusetts area. Throughout all of the colonies, the people relied mostly on small farms and the efficiency of their work. Many households manufactured their own soaps, preserved food, candles, brewed beer and also processed
Reconstruction helped with americans free slaves from slavery, but did it free america from rich men? Rich and poor americans contributed to create a new economy at the end of the 19th century. African American went north but some stayed in the south after Emancipaction. Farms, factories, and mines hire cheap workers. Big businesses and wealthy business owners affected the american economy.