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
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