Colonies, not States

Theme:

•European colonies in America developed very differently from each other.

Review•Jamestown was the first permanent

English colony in America

•Started for money

•80% of colonists died

•Strong individuals keep Jamestown alive

•Hit upon cash crop of tobacco and thrives

What’s a colony?•A place that belongs to another country

•England, France, Spain, Holland, Sweden and Portugal all were “landowners” in America

•Often owned by companies given grants by kings

•America was made up of many European colonies from 1607-1776

•7 generations

•http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/13-colonies-colonial-life-economics-politics.html

•American colonies separated into three categories:

•New England (Northeast -- Mass.)

•Middle Colonies (New York-Pennsylvania)

•Southern Colonies (Virginia-South Carolina)

New England

•Not good for farming

•Lots of harbors for ships

•Running rivers for industry

•Working class

•Close-knit communities

•schools

•town meetings

•Religion very important (Pilgrims!)

•everyone was educated to read the Bible

•Many came to escape religious persecution

Southern Colonies•Plantation economy

•huge farming estates run by a rich family

•most Southerners were servants or slaves working on these

•labor-intensive work = slaves

•No cities

•spread out farming communities

•few professionals

•little education means little chance for “social mobility”

•moving from poor to rich

•lower life expectancy

•step-parents and half siblings created large family “clans”

Middle colonies

•Best of both worlds

•Large farms

•produced food

•Longer life expectance

•Largest cities and most businesses

•New York has connection to rest of world

•Dutch (Holland) colony

•Philadelphia became a large, important city

•Land ownership and productivity high

•Stable families and society

•Great innovation

•printing/publishing leader

•freedom of press upheld