What Were The 13 Colonies

There were thirteen original colonies in the North American region. The first English colonies settled off the coast of the Atlantic and started expanding west. The colonies have been placed into three regions the New England colonies, Middle colonies, and the Southern colonies. New England colonies consisted of (New Hampshire, Rode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts). The Middle colonies consisted of (New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware). The Southern colonies consisted of (The Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia, and Maryland). The three different regions were all from England, but examining the three sets of colonies will prove that they were all different: economically, religiously, and politically.
Economically the colonies
New England settlers fed up with the Church of England made their way to the new world to find spiritual freedom. The New England settlers had a belief that there were other ways to have religion, the way that God intended. The Puritan’s which originated in England was a religion based on a desire to purify itself from the Church of England’s beliefs. The New England colonies also had Pilgrims who were called separatist because of the desire to separate themselves from the Anglican Church. Both Puritans and Pilgrims suffered under the English rule for their different beliefs, and came to the new world which was unspoiled to raise their children without the corruption of old English religious ideas. Religion in the Middle colonies was very assorted. In the Middle colonies there were Calvinist, Catholics, Quakers, Baptist, Moravians, and Presbyterians. The Great Awakening appeared first in the Presbyterian religion through Reverend Tennant with a great revival whose heartfelt sermons would bring sinners to an evangelical conversion. The Great Awakening spread throughout the colonies with famous sermons from Jonathan Edwards like “Sinner in the hands of an Angry God”. In the Southern colonies there were Catholics, Baptist, and Methodist. Catholics were primarily in Maryland and the rest of the south observed religious freedom as Anglicans. Protestants of all varieties settled in the south and were welcomed. The colonies were different in their religious beliefs, but they all had something in common; they were here in the new world to try and have religious freedom from the Church of England and its rule over