Geography/resources - Their soil was rocky and not suitable from growing crops. But, corn, pumpkins, rye, squash and beans were planted. They had rocky mountains with thick trees. Also some of their natural resources were fish, whales, forests. New England imported some of their agricultural products from other colonies.…
Contrasting developments in the economies of the Chesapeake and New England territory also helped offbeat the two different regions. New England colonies were found on horrendous soil, ruining any possibility of farming. Due to the lack of farmland, the colonists started to raze the forests and developed a robust lumber industry. It had a plethora of trees, allowing it to provide different types of wood needed for different types of furniture. With the abundance of timber, shipbuilding also became a flourishing industry while whaling also played a role in the New England colonies. Contrary to the horrible farming conditions in the New England colonies, the Chesapeake region thrived in the agricultural industry. With tobacco becoming a staple crop, most of the entrepreneurs…
on each other and Great Britain for certain goods they could not provide for themselves.…
Between 1607and 1737 settlers from England established thirteen colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America.…
Let’s start off with New England, New England’s Harsh rocky soil made farming difficult, led to subsistence farms. New England’s Land was also granted to a group and towns were subdivided among families. New England also had Fishing including whaling. New England had Shipbuilding and small-scale factories. New England includes Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire.…
The New England colonies to the north and the southern colonies were vastly different in their economies. The New England colonies' colder climate and low soil fertility made farming in these colonies a struggle. They did however have the advantage in that the coasts of New England were some of the most fertile fishing locations in existence. This led the New England colonies to whaling…
-Religion: Presbyterians were well represented, they also had a Congregational Church. When it comes to religious toleration, Massachusetts was the least tolerant but Rhode Island was one of the most liberal.…
Geography led New England to develop into a commercial and industrial region. The land and climate don't support large-scale farming, but natural harbors made fishing, shipping, and shipbuilding profitable. Fast-moving rivers ran mills and machinery to manufacture goods. A strong working class developed.…
New England had a stronger economy than the Southern colonies even though it was mostly based off of lumber, fishing, and manufacturing. But since they had big port cities, like Boston and New York, they traded a lot with other places and made a lot more money that way compared to the Southern colonies…
After carefully examining your OPVL on the excerpt, “Gender, Work, and Wage in Colonial New England”, I could find no faults in how it was written. Your origin statement covers all necessary bases (author, primary v. secondary, date of creation) and even ventures further by including a small description of what the source covers. You then transition into extending your source description in your purpose statement. While reading, I became drawn in by what you had stated in your purpose statement, the idea that women at the time had done the opposite of what historians would have expected. Your value was extremely analytical and detailed, as you were able to point out all in which the source had to offer. Lastly, your limitation in itself would…
The Middle Colonies were all royal provinces at one time. The local government was controlled by the people and was different than the New England and Southern Colonies. The type of government was known as the county-town, sometimes call the mixed system which came from the proximity of New England and also the Southern Colonies, somewhat from the character of the population as well as from the climate and physiography of the country. That made life of necessity a medium between those of the New England village and the southern plantation. In New York the township had possessed basically all the powers in the local government. The evolution of Pennsylvania went in the other way. William Penn created a private county system, but as the population…
Colonial America was a very troubling and dangerous place, but these two chief countries were sought in on their ways. Those core values helped catapult them into the new world in search of freedom, food, and a source of income. England and France were two dominant countries, nonetheless they had their differences socially, economically, and politically which propelled them towards the new world.…
New Englanders valued fishing, whaling, and other jobs that helped them obtain resources from the sea. The southern colonies had a much warmer climate, and people there grew crops such as rice and tobacco. Agriculture was of greater importance in the middle colonies due to the milder climate. While Agriculture was important locally, the middle colonies also got resources from the New England, and Southern colonies. They got seafood from New England, and things like rice, and tobacco from the Southern colonies.…
Also they build agriculture as their basic economy because of the good soils and climates of those regions, and have these workers to do this work for their own goods. They traded raw materials to other countries for money and also to their motherland England, which called Mercantilism. Mercantilism is one of the Trading Raw materials such as lumber, Tobacco; food stuffs … etc to the motherland, then the motherland, which was England, sells the raw materials and finished the products to world. But they also had differences between them in economic. In New England, the mayflower impact was the one of the first document that was made in America, which was led by the separatists. In Southern Colonies had mostly agricultures, and used African-American indentured servants, who were signed contract for 7 years to work, basically slave. In Middle Atlantic, they were near the Bay so they had to trade with other countries, shipping industries, and agriculture…
The three colonial regions are the New England Colonies, Middle colonies, and the southern colonies. The New England Colonies are Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The middle colonies were New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. The Southern colonies are Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The most famous colonies for slavery were the southern colonies.…