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- The New World These words throughout Europe greatly stimulated
the European monarchs for overseas exploration and colonization.
Where they explored and colonized depended on the ocean currents,
weather patterns, and where rival powers had claimed their land.
England started colonizing along the Atlantic Ocean.
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- English Colonies England started colonizing on the shore of the
Atlantic Ocean. The 13 colonies were established by England and
historians categorized them into regions
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- The 13 colonies are broken up into regions. Regions: an area
grouped all together by a common characteristics The Thirteen
colonies were divided into three regions based on the type of
people that lived there, the climate, and the physical geography of
the area.
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- New England Colonies
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- ReasonsGeographyEconomy $$$Colonies Who Puritans Pilgrims To
practice their religion without fear of persecution English people
Long winters Lots of trees and rocky soil Not good for farming
lumbering Ship building Fishing Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode
Island Connecticut New England Colonies Reform or purify Church of
England To escape persecution and separate from Church of
England
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- 1620
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- * 1635
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- 1636
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- 1638
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- Reason Settled: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM!
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- MAJOR PRODUCTS: shipbuilding industry fishing How did they make
money?
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- Climate and Farming: CLIMATE: Extremely cold winter Short
growing season FARMING: NOT GOOD Hard / rocky soil NOT good
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- PEOPLE OF NEW ENGLAND
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- Pilgrims Arrived on the Mayflower Wanted religious freedom Led
by William Bradford and landed at Plymouth Signed the Mayflower
Compact (rememberit was the 1 st self-government
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- Puritans Better Church of England Puritan Beliefs: They were
the chosen people Very smart Church & state should work
together
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- Puritans Leave Massachusetts 1 st group to Connecticut Wrote
the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, which was the 1 st Written
Constitution in America Author was Thomas Hooker Gave a detailed
description of representative government
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- Middle Colonies
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- ReasonsGeographyEconomy $$$Colonies Who Germans Swedes Dutch
Cold winters Better climate than New England Lots of hills and
trees Small farms mining trade New York Delaware New Jersey
Pennsylvania Middle Colonies (Bread Basket) Religious freedom trade
Iron ore Wheat and grains Quakers Escape religious persecution in
Europe
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- * 1620
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- 1638
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- 1682
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- REASONS SETTLED: Business profit and trade Religious
freedom
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- MAJOR PRODUCTS Harvesting grain Cattle &
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- CLIMATE AND FARMING Climate Cold winters Average growing season
Farming OK Coastline rocky but some rolling green hills
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- PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE COLONIES
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- Quakers Leader was William Penn Sought religious freedom and
trade for money Led a simplistic lifestyle Religious toleration
church services unnecessary Believed in no violence to anyone and
that slavery was bad
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- HOW DID THEY END UP HERE? King Charles II owed the Penn family
money Repaid them with land in America SoWilliam Penn brought the
Quakers to the New World (against his fathers wishes) Pennsylvania
& the Quakers
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- Was called the Holy Experiment Established Philadelphia, which
became known as the City of Brotherly Love any government is free
to the people under itwhere the laws rule Called the melting pot
city because all foreigners were welcome
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- The English took New Netherlands away from the Dutch and
renamed it New York Had lots of ethnic diversity (Italians, Dutch,
French, Irish) Trade was great because of the large harbor area
Fastest growing of all the colonies New York
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- New Jersey Was a proprietary colony Known for ethnic diversity
Allowed religious freedom 1 st to have trial by jury Representative
government
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- Delaware Formed for Pennsylvanias access to the Atlantic Ocean
Why was this important? FOR TRADE!
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- Southern Colonies ReasonsGeographyEconomy $$$Colonies Who
English looking for profit Mild winters Fertile soil farms rice
tobacco Virginia Maryland North Carolina South Carolina Southern
Colonies (farms and plantations) profit New opportunities
Plantations Cash Crops Lots of flat land Georgia English Catholics
Escape religious persecution
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- 1607 (Jamestown)
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- 1634
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- 1660-1670
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- 1733
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- REASONS SETTLED: Mercantilism (a states power depends on its
wealth) Profit from trade
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- MAJOR PRODUCTS: Agriculture Tobacco 1 st cash crop Lumber
Rice
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- CLIMATE AND FARMING CLIMATE Warm, humid Long growing season
FARMING GREAT! Moist, rich soil
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- Established by Lord Baltimore Settled by Roman Catholics
fleeing persecution in England Passed the Toleration Act provided
religious freedom Farmed tobacco MARYLAND
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- Carolina Was swampy & humid Poor administration Used
Natives as slave labor Caused many battles Proprietors were no help
so the king took over Separated into North and South
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- Settled by General James Oglethorpe Purpose was to give debtors
a new start Slavery was not allowed Allowed religious freedom
GEORGIA
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- Jamestown, Virginia Tobacco & women were the reason for the
survival of Jamestown Swamp brought disease House of Burgesses was
the 1 st representative government
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- SLAVERY Slavery becomes a worldwide mistake
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- Start of Slavery Africans were not the 1 st 1 st Indentured
Servants (poor white English people who borrowed money to get to
America)
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- 2 nd Native Americans (began to die of disease or escaped)
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- 3 rd Africans (slaves were critical for the tobacco
harvest)
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- Brought here through Triangle Trade This was the triangle of
shipping of goods from America to Europe and slaves from Africa to
America
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- Now you are going to write a paragraph comparing the reasons
for the colonization of the 13 colonies. Using your tree map make
sure you address the economic, religious and social reasons.