American colonies were known as: New England, the Southern colonies, and the Middle colonies.
The colonies developed because economic and political institutions in the colonies were either typically European or distinctively American. Climate, soil conditions, and other natural resources shaped regional economic development in all the colonies. New England made big profits from trade. The Middle Colonies had big cities and excellent harbors along the coasts. The merchants who lived in these growing port cities exported cash crops, especially grain, and imported manufactured goods. Because of its enormous trade, Philadelphia was the fastest growing city in the colonies. The Southern colonies developed into prosperous colonies that made large
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They build ships, farmed, and traded for money. The Middle Colonies were less industrial than the New England Colonies, yet more industrial than the Southern Colonies. Lumber and shipbuilding were both important industries in the Middle Colonies. The middle colonies were fertile. Land was generally acquired more easily than in New England. Farming was dominant in the Middle Colonies and was known as the bread winner of all the colonies. The Middle Colonies' chief export was grain, in addition to other crops such as corn, vegetables, fruit and livestock. There was more religious freedom in the Middle Colonies than in New England. No single church or religion dominated in the Middle Colonies. The Middle colonies were the most democratic, religiously tolerant, and the fastest growing colonial region. Their religious groups were: Quakers, Huguenots, Jews, and the Presbyterians. The people who founded the Middle Colonies were looking to practice their own religion (Pennsylvania mainly) or to make money. All of the systems of government in the Middle Colonies elected their own legislature, they were all democratic, had a governor, governor's court, and a court …show more content…
Southern Colonies were dominated by a desire to make money, which led to the development of large plantations and an agriculturally-focused society. Much of the labor on the farms and plantations was done by slaves brought over from Africa. The Southern colonies had warm climate and rich soil. The southern colonist’s religions were mixed between Baptists and Anglicans. They grew rice, indigo, and tobacco for cash. The southern colonists learned, quickly, how to make a living growing tobacco. They built huge plantations to grow massive crops of tobacco to be exported to England. They made trades, hunted, and farmed for money. The southern colonies had their own government. The colonists had meetings when they wanted to talk about issues, interests, or laws. The laws had to be approved by the advisory council and their
During the 1600’s, people living in England wanted to make a better life for themselves so they left to explore a new land. Upon arrival, they formed colonies. Two of the three colonies formed were New England colony and the Southern colony. Though these people wanted to change their way of living from England, these colonies had different viewpoints on how they wanted to live their lives once they arrived in the new world. Things like climate, education and religion played a major part in their economic growth.
The New England and Southern colonies, although they had their differences, did share a similar government system. However, the differences on a economic, religious, and social level overrode the similarity shared, making the two regions different nonetheless. The New England’ colonies focus on a business economy made them a central area of trade and commerce, but in the long run created society open to innovation and brought in new inventions. Whereas the Southern colonies’ focus on agriculture economy brought a sensation of profits for the mother country, but later attributed to the introduction of slave codes. Then, in the New England colonies, the religious restrictions increased tensions between the Separatists and Puritans, which later
The four groups of colonies were distinct from one another in the labor systems that they used. In New England, there were small farms that allowed a much bigger manufacturing and merchant class to arise. This was very different even from the middle colonies, where larger family farms and indentured servitude were prefered. In the Chesapeake and southern colonies, plantations were the most profitable economic choices. However, in the Chesapeake colonies these plantations were smaller and relied more on indentured servants than the slave heavy large
By the 1700’s, The northern and souther colonies had evolved into two distinct societies. This is so because the northern and southern colonies had different environments and also different reasons of settlement. The North was established for mainly religious freedom, while on the other hand, the south had been established for economic freedom. The climate also affected the different turnout of the north and the south. The north was much colder and so their soil was not beneficial for farming, so the people of the north found other jobs, while on the other side, the south had rich soil and the colonists there used that idea to set up huge plantations and farms.
In a similar economic revolution, the colonies outgrew their mercantile relationship with the mother country and developed an expanding capitalist system of their own. With Britain's reliance on the mercantile system it rubbed off on most of the colonies. They wanted to be self sufficient so that they would not have to resort on help from other countries. The Southern colonies for example relied heavily on trade with England. This was caused by the geography in the south, because it was mostly a tidewater region. This allowed ships to sail deep within the south. Therefore cotton from Georgia was sent across to England, then it was made into thread or such. It was then sent back to the colonies were it was to be made into various items. Due to the geographic location of the northern ...
The socio-economic in the Chesapeake consist of the plantation which farmed the cash crop of the Chesapeake. Tobacco, wheat, and rice was the cash crop that made the Chesapeake very wealthy. Along with the plantation that also had indentured servitude and later on they would have slavery to take place of indentured servants. The New England colonies socio-economic characteristics included agriculture, a diversified economy, and a social structure that set it apart from the Chesapeake.
The economic differences between the North and the South were already formed during the American colonial period under the Britain. The Britain used American colonies for raising the British’s economic prosperity. For instance, they used their colonies to grow crops that did not grow in the Britain due to geographical reasons. Tobacco was one of the profitable crops, which was well grown in the southern region of North America. As the southern areas lacked in population and labors compared to the northern areas, African slaves were imported to the South. On the other hand, as the northern areas were closer to Europe, the ports for trades especially with the Britain and Europe were developed in the northern cities like Boston.
The three colonial regions blossomed quite differently in terms of economy. English colonists first settled in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. Failing to find gold, however, people in the southern colonies grew tobacco and rice as marketable commodities. Since tobacco plantation was labor-intensive, a large number of the population was indentured servants and black slaves. Because of the high mortality rate and unbalanced sex ratio, headright system was created in order to attract more settlers. In New England, due to the poor soil condition, people mainly relied on fishing, and lumber. Also, the Navigation Acts stimulated shipbuilding industry. The Middle colonies were based on growing grains and trading with European nations as well as other colonies.
As the 13 colonies were established, diversities already started to appear. The South was focused on cops and tobacco, known as "Cash Crops". In order to produce these, large labor was necessary. The South bought slaves from Africa in order to fulfill these labor intensive jobs. The North on the other hand grew industrialized. They build factories all over their territory. With the invention of the Whitney's Cotton Gin, it was easier to farm the fields. With this invention, time was saved and more cotton and tobacco could be produced. But in order for this to succeed, more slaves were needed. This drew to tension between the North and the South as the North was against slavery.
Agriculture was tremendously valuable to the lives of early Americans and the development of the country. It was among one of the top two most important aspects of American life, but was not quite as primary as the social and economic life. Some of the main crops grown by the earlier settlers included wheat, peas, corn, and tobacco. Farms were developed first in the Chesapeake region. Due to the abundant land and numerous streams in this region, the farm soil was richer and more ideal for farming. Farms in the northern colonies, especially New England, tended to be smaller due to smaller amounts of fields and land. Southern colonies were able to have much larger plantations and areas to plant crops. White indentured servants were sometimes hired in the earlier part of the 17th century, but black slaves became a common use of labor in the later decades of the 1600s. The New England and middle colonies in opposition, rarely hired slaves. The most abundant and common crop in every region was corn. “Every...
Firstly, there were the Southern colonies. These colonies tried to remain true to their roots, the King of England. They made their money by growing cash crops on large plantations: tobacco, rice, and indigo. Colonists came to settle in the Southern colonies mainly to make money. Their social life was based on family status and the ownership of land. Large plantation owners controlled the government, as well as society. The people that lived here were
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
Middle colonies were prosperous in industries like lumber, mining, manufacturing and iron work. They were also quite successful at raising cattle, fishing and farming because they had bigger harvests of grain, wheat and cash crops. They were also able to use the major waterways to establish New York as the center of trade to and from
Economically, the colonies were not similar; in fact, they had all built upon completely different resources depending on the fertility of the land. The English government made moving to the “New World” sound like an adventure and a second chance at life and this attracted many English colonists. The Chesapeake area was one of most popular places to emigrate because its thriving tobacco production was constantly in need of cheap labor. Indentured servants helped to sustain the colonies’ economic growth by keeping land and labor cheap. The New England colonists, however, realized that subsistence farming was good for their land. They also began to trade goods from England, such as fur, to the Native Americans and in return they received food. As these colonies grew, they began to incorporate new ways of providing for themselves, such as, fishing, lumbering, and selling slaves to the Chesapeake and Southern colonies. The Middle Colonies had fertile land and used it to grow cash crops, such as, corn and wheat. Much of their economic success was due to trading and selling these crops. ...
had favorable and better climate, which lead to diversified farming. The diverse farming contributed to the production of grains and cereals, which was responsible for feeding the communities of slaves. The Middle colonies were the “breadbasket to the slave communities” before the Chesapeake colonies were because they figured out that tobacco wasn’t as profitable before earlier. Agriculture played significant role in developing the Middle colonies because the nice and friendlier conditions, due to growing grains, attracted many immigrants.The immigrant formed the middle class, which was very high in the Middle colonies. The influx of immigrants lead to many things like high