Colonies Notes 09/07/07

Eastern Seaboard divided into three "sections".

The North

States

Massachusetts

Connecticut

Rhode Island

Maine

New Hampshire

Terrain limits expansion

Subsistence Agriculture practiced

Growing enough to sustain life

Industries

Timber production, thus shipbuilding

Large fishing industry

Whaling

Fur industry

Mining

Trade through merchants

Small labor force

Education is religion based

Close knit community

Revolution easier

Middle Colonies

States

New York

Pennsylvania

New Jersey

Delaware

Large foreign population

Longer growing season, milder climate

More grains (wheat, corn) grown

No vast plantations

Richest section of country

The South

States

Virginia

Maryland

North Carolina

South Carolina

Georgia

V. warm and humid

Primary agriculture

Cash crops

Tobacco is top, followed by rice and indigo

Reliant on land

No subsistence farming

Plantations

More land needed for cash crops

Thus more people needed

Thus, slave labor needed

Two forms of slavery

Indentured Servitude

Black slaves from Africa

These slaves can be held longer. No contract

Southerners were already rich. Old money

Tobbaco and Virginia

VA number one colony early on.

Tobacco creates greed of land

Tobacco depletes nutrients in soil

Grab more and more land to make up for depleted land

King James detested tobacco

VA starts House of Burgesses

1619

Self represantative government

Want to expand (Westward)

People expanding want representation

As white people move West, Indians attack

Complain to House of Burgesses

HOB refuse to help

N. Bacon expects help

Maryland is Catholic haven

Founded in 1634

Led by Lord Baltimore

Second plantation colony

4th colony

Protestants allowed to live in Maryland, but not well

Maryland does very well growing tobacco

Colonial statute of religious toleration

Except for death penalty to Jews and Atheists

Carolinas

Flourishes because of close economic ties with West Indies

Jamaica

Barbados

Many people didn't come directly to Carolina, but from Barbados

Sugar plantations

Native American populations provides problem

Found that rice grows very well

Tried to enslave Indians

Reasons why didn't work

Growing rice needs water

Water brings mosquitoes and malaria

Whites and Native Americans had no immunity

African Americans had greater immunity

Whites viewed Native Americans as "Noble Savages"

More similar to whites as AA

AA's not viewed as human

Treated as tool, like a car

Split into North and South in 1720's

Georgia

Poor and criminals