Regional differences in the colonies

1. Colonial Period Review
SOUTH MIDDLE NEW ENGLAND
Virginia Pennsylvania Massachusetts
Maryland New York Rhode Island
North Carolina New Jersey Connecticut
South Carolina Delaware New Hampshire
Georgia Philadelphia Plymouth
Jamestown New York City Mass. Bay Colony
Charlestown Dutch Pilgrims
cash crops Germans Separatists
plantations Quakers Puritans
debtors colony Catholics Mayflower Compact
rice (SC,GA) William Penn Direct Democracy
indigo (SC, GA) “bread basket Town meetings
tobacco colonies” No separation of church &
(VA,MD,NC) Religious state
settled by single Toleration (PA) Strict moral codes
young men opposed slavery John Winthrop
indentured opposed war / “A City Upon a hill”
servants & pacifists Salem Witch Trails
slaves Ethnic diversity Roger Williams
Tidewater region Religious Anne Hutchinson
Vast river system diversity Thomas Hooker
Bad Harbors Grain Crops Fund. Orders of Conn.
Planters Zenger Trial Towns and villages
John Smith Vast river system Religious intolerance (MA)
James Oglethorpe Good harbors Religious tolerance (RI)
Lord Baltimore Cash crops Education priority
Catholics Good harbors
House of Rocky, infertile soil
Burgesses Short growing season
st
1 Representative Subsistence farming only
democracy Principles of rule of law &
Rural / no towns written constitution
Bacon’s Rebellion Triangle Trade
MD. Toleration
Act
Religious
tolerance (MD)