Regions of the 13 Colonies * The number of people differed among the colony regions; the amount of land in the colonies also differed among the regions with small numbers of people on huge tracts of land. * The first European colonists didn’t know how big North America was because they didn’t have a map of the continent. * The three geographic regions of the 13 Colonies were the New England Colonies‚ the Middle Colonies‚ and the Southern Colonies. The New England Colonies * The four
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The colonies that Britain and Spain founded were shaped by the Old World ways. To survive the colonies had to master new situations and learn new techniques. The colonies also had raw resources that the Old World lacked. Though different‚ the colonies had one purpose‚ to make their countries rich. All the colonies were different but their goals remained the same. British and Spanish colonies both had the goal of bringing wealth to their respective countries. Spanish colonies were mainly focused
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Step #1 The English strategy for colonies was to create a very tight knit group of people to survive in a place where it would take years for any help to come. They didn’t even have anything to get back to England. They all voluntarily came there. They were supposed to treat each other with "kindness and patience" make America seem amazing in every way. Like it just made people nice and productive. That was supposed to make other people want to come there. That strategy was also supposed to make
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So Jamestown and Plymouth are two colonies that were established by Europeans around the 1600‚ but when established‚ they both had different reasons for creating their colonies. When reading these two stories‚ you can already tell that these two colonies have a tremendous difference‚ but also you can identify the similarities of these two colonies. Jamestown a colony in Virginia‚ which was a humongous disaster in my opinion. Around 300 settlers migrated to Jamestown and arrived on May 14‚ 1607 and
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Bay and New England ColoniesThere are many key differences that distinguish the inhabitants of the New England colonies from those of the Chesapeake Bay colonies. These dissimilarities include but are not limited to the differences between the social structure‚ family life‚ forms of government‚ religion‚ and the lives of indentured servants and children in the two colonies. The social structure and family life of the two colonies varied greatly. The inhabitants of the Chesapeake Bay colonies were never
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implications they had. By comparing the Middle Colonies and New England‚ and by contrasting the future North to the South‚ it becomes relatively easy to draw patterns. In 1760‚ the population in New England counts 16‚000 Africans‚ 29‚000 for the Middle Colonies whereas the South populates 205‚000 Africans. Slavery is then mainly concentrated in the South‚ involving more agrarian activities and land farmers. Life expectancy in New England and the Middle Colonies were higher while death rates were superior
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The colonists left England and settled in the different areas of the East coast which eventually led to cultural differences in social interactions‚ education‚ and the settlement of different religious groups. The social interactions in the northern colonies differed greatly from those of the southern colonies. The northern colonies’ families‚ like in New England‚ centered around patriarchy and male predominance. The southern colonies had an unbalanced ratio of males to females with a male majority
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The Northern and Southern Renaissance is often viewed as one of the most important eras in European history. Both have contributed to the influence the artwork had on the people both politically and socially and helped kick start many artists careers. The Renaissance helped increase the popularity of other fields of study including literature‚ science‚ architecture‚ politics‚ and religion. Although both Renaissances saw the establishment of humanism‚ the greatest patron of the arts was still the
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Even though the Virginia and Massachusetts Bay colonies were the some of the oldest and most heavily populated of the English colonies‚ their differences in their economies‚ politics‚ religions and society set them apart. Some of the differences include the southern Virginia colony having a representative assembly‚ while Massachusetts Bay colony had a democratic assembly‚ and the main crop of Virginia being tobacco‚ while the Massachusetts economy revolved around lumbar‚ fishing and trade. Virginia
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differences in the founding of the northern and southern English colonies? The major similarity of the founding of each colony was the reasoning the people were coming over in the first place. They were all looking for better lives economically. The differences were the northern colonies were mainly looking for freedom politically and religiously. The southern colonies were just looking for an all-around better scale of life. The people from the southern colonies came over with adventure on their minds
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