... . Many of these people didn't bring their families with them from England and were the perfect workers for the hard work required in ironworks and shipyards. 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. But their ... grains grew on farms in Pennsylvania and New York. Factories in Maryland produced iron, and factories in Pennsylvania produced paper and textiles. Trade with England was plentiful in these colonies as well. The Southern...

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... Puritans did not feel strong about the quest of Faith the Quakers were on. They often harassed the Quakers and persecuted them. Religious diversity in the Middle Colonies was apparent because of the population. The Southern Colonies at this specific time frame were the Carolinas. They consisted of North and South Carolina and were founded in 1663 by Anthony Cooper. Georgia did not ... were basically business propositions. The governing system allowed slavery and blacks were forced to work on the crops. There was slavery much like the Middle Colonies. This made the Carolinas, the richest...

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... where the planters focused on tobacco, where the majority of Southerners lived. The second region was the lower South, the coastal region of the southern colonies, where the people profited from indigo and rice. The slave population grew steadily throughout the eighteenth century. Slaves were taken from their homes and ... losing their own lives and loved ones. The slaves grew to realize that slavery seemed to be the way to stay alive in the colonies. And the Southern planters profited immensely off the service of the slaves. 90% of all North American exports to England came from the Sou...

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... household. The clothes were dyed with different kinds of things such as roots, berries, and so on. One famous person born in the middle colonies was Benjamin Franklin who gave the middle colonies a fire department and a public library. The southern colonies were Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia. They were supported by slave labor and farming, for the most part. The ... government of the colonies were infested by planters and farmers in the late seventeenth century. The primary seaport for the southern colonies was Charleston, South Carolina, a place where t...

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... of the North American slave system. Soon, fourteen percent of Virginia's population was made up of enslaved blacks. The English colonies were split up into three parts: The New England colonies, the Middle colonies, and the Southern colonies. The New England colonies comprised of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut and were originally settled by Pilgrims and Puritans from ... religious toleration and many different ethnicities inside their states - one can see how this combination created successful settlements. The southern colonies were dependent...

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... into school districts, as a result of increased population and need for additional schools. Education was a family and church responsibility in the middle colonies, and due to the variety of religious and national groups in this region, any attempts at public schooling were quickly laid to rest. ... to a religious group, thereby granting them education of some sort through their church, even if they could not attend a private school. The southern colonies followed the English tradition, which placed the responsibility of education on the family primarily, and on the church secondarily. In...

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... was located in the north eastern most region called New England. Pennsylvania was part of the middle colonies and Virginia was the first of the southern colonies. Each of these areas had both similar and contrasting attributes. In example, New England and the middle colonies had certain economical similarities the south were set up completely different. Comparisons can also be made for politics ... and no one could control it. Citizens sought to prove to one another that they were chosen favorably. This begins to show the social development in these north eastern colonies. New England co...

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