BASHEER ABDUR-RAHMAN

MODULE 3 ASSIGNMENT 1

THIRTEEN COLONIES

New England Colonies

Middle Colonies

Southern Colonies

THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES

Colonies: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire Important attributes/characteristics:l. The people in these colonies came primarily for religious freedom.2. They made their own clothes and grew their own food.3. Massachusetts was the major New England port for shipbuilding.4. Life expectancy was greater than in England.5. Literacy rates were high6. Rock soil which made large skill farming almost impossible7. First written constitution in the western hemisphere8. Came mostly in family groups

TRIANGLE TRADE AFFECTED THE DEVELOPMENT OF COLONIAL GOVERNMENT IN THAT SLAVE SHIPS FROM ENGLAND WENT TO WEST

AFRICA TO GET SLAVES. THEY PAID FOR THE SLAVES WITH RUM. MONEY FROM THE SALE OF SLAVES WAS USED TO BUY MOLASSES. THIS CAME

BACK TO NEW ENGLAND WHERE IT WAS MADE INTO RUM.

•Great thinker like Benjamin Franklin, William Penn.

• Fertile soil • Dutch gave us the concept of Santa Claus, Easter eggs, bowling and ice skating.

•Assortment of ethnic groups.(English, Swedes, Germans, Scots-Irish, French)

• Served as the distribution center for trade.

•Came for religious freedom.

• Most politically and economically diverse.

New York

New Jersey

DelawarePennsylvania

MIDDLE COLONIES

GOD

GOLD

GLORY

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THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT USHERED IN A NEW WAY OF THINKING. THE OLD WAY THAT THINGS USED TO BE DONE WAS CHALLENGED BY WRITERS LIKE ISAAC NEWTON AND JOHN LOCKE. THEIR IDEAS WENT FURTHER THAN JUST THE SPIRITUAL. LOCKE EVEN SAID THAT PEOPLE HAD THE RIGHT TO CHANGE A GOVERNMENT IF THE GOVERNMENT DID NOT PROTECT THEIR BASIC RIGHTS. PEOPLE BEGAN TO QUESTION THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. MONTESQUIEU SAID THAT POWER SHOULD NOT BE IN THE HANDS OF A FEW AND THAT POWER SHOULD BE SEPARATED INTO 3 GROUPS, EXECUTIVE, JUDICIAL, AND LEGISLATIVE.

People in America read these ideas. Religious leaders became less strict. New political attitudes were created by these new ideas. A direct effect of the Age of Enlightenment can be found in the opening of the Declaration of Independence. The opening is an application of John Lock’s ideas.

THE SOUTHERN COLONIES

Southern Colonies

Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia

These people came to make money.

I Because they had large plantations they needed workers to work the land which led to bringing of large number of slaves to work for them. James Oglethorpe tried to develop Georgia as a utopian experiment.”

Cash crop plantation system.

They were not as healthy-many died from typhoid, malaria, yellow fever.

Usually did not come with families, single men.

The southern colonies

•The Age of Awakening was a major rebellion against the strict teaching of the church. The new faiths that came out of the Age of Awakening were much more democratic. No one denomination dominated an area. There was greater equality and more tolerance about differences. More and more new Protestant denominations were formed. During this time people saw themselves as being more capable of taking care of themselves. Another effect of the Great Awakening was the growth of the notion of state rule as a contract with the people This was the first major event that all the colonies could share.

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