2. 
 Due to the location of New England there were a number of
major differences with the Chesapeake
 Main labor source was family
 Farms were modest in size and diverse
 Social hierarchy was not as drastic
 Towns offered a variety of social/cultural/religious
opportunities
 New Englanders were healthier
 Religion also played a major part in the life of New Englanders
 There were typically more clergymen in New England than
any other region
 Early focus was on excluding people outside of the Puritan
faith from the region
Life in New England

3. 
Life Cont.
 Other than Farming small
industry and fishing
dominated commerce in the
early Colonial period
 These industries were
initially shunned by the
Puritans but eventually
others expanded
 Due to this expansion non-
puritan dominated seaports
along the coast
 By the end of the 17th century
New England had become a
major economic region in the
Empire
 Due to their growing
economic importance New
England came under attack by
the Crown

4. 
 The New England colonies had a problematic relationship
with the local natives
 The native Americans came to rely on the consumer goods
of European states
 Europeans took advantage of weakened disconnected
native peoples
 During the 1620’s and 30’s we see Colonists set up “Praying
Towns” near traditional home areas
 First major conflict was the Pequot War in 1636 and
ended with a slaughter of the Pequot
 Set the stage for problematic relations with other Native
groups
Relations with Native
Americans

5. 
King Phillip’s War
 In the 1675 the colonists
pushed a Wampanoag Chief
Metacom, aka King Phillip, to
the edge
 The New English provoked
Metacom by capturing and
executing three Wampanoag
warriors
 Wampanoag’s began to
target isolated colonial
homestead and outposts
using Pequot’s War as an
example
 The Wampanoag also took
advantage of the Flintlocks
they had acquired
 The New English lacked the
ability fight Metacom’s men
without other native groups

6. 
King Phillip Cont.
 The New English reached out to the
Pequot, Mohegan, and Praying town
Natives for help
 During the spring and Summer of
1676 the allies helped turn the tide of
the war
 The New English abandoned
traditional European military
tactics for Native tactics
 The Wampanoag's also began to
run out of supplies during this time
and suffered
 As a result the Native resistance fell
apart especially when Metacom
was killed in August
 The war devastated both the New
English as well as the Natives and the
New English punished the Natives for
their losses

8. 
 During the 1670’s the West Indian planters formed a new
colony in the South
 This territory included parts of modern day North/South
Carolina and Georgia
 The West Indian island of Barbados supplied the first
colonists to the region
 They founded Charles Town in 1670 on the coast
 The Lord Proprietor did all they could to stimulate
immigration
 The Lords eventually split Carolina into North and South
in 1691 AD administratively and officially in 1712
Carolina

9. 
South Carolina
 South Carolina began to
adopt the slave society of
Barbados from almost the
beginning
 Slave labor dominated the states
population for much of the
colonial period
 Early crop production was varied
with the state having the most
diverse exports of any colony
 Rice production took hold in the
state in the late 1690’s thanks to
the subtropical climate
 Rice production allowed for a
dramatic increase in slave
population

10. 
 English Charter was issued in 1732 AD and was supposed to be
very different from other colonies
 Georgia became the first colony which was funded by
Parliament
 Georgia Trustees banned slavery in 1734 due to colonial goals
 They were driven by both military security and its founding
principles
 Due to the inability of the settlers to produce goods Slavery was
allowed in the 1640’s
 Slavery was limited to low country Georgia and was dominated
by Rice
Georgia