Colonial Regions

Run of the mill stuff, in a Run of the mill PowerPoint.

New England Colonies

• Focused on religion; Puritans not tolerant;

• Mostly English

• Boston – port– Triangle Trade

• Value hard work & thrift

• Towns, small farms

Middle Colonies• Catholics (MD) &

Quakers (PA)

• Tolerant/flexible

• Germans, Scots-Irish, Dutch, Swedes

• New York City; Baltimore; Philadelphia = Ports

Southern Colonies• Church of England; close

ties to England

• Dominated by Eastern planters– Cash Crops (Tobacco)

• Based on wealth; land ownership

• Port = Charleston, SC

• Who did the work?– SLAVES

Triangle Trade• A triangle of trade formed

between the Colonies, Africa , Europe.

• Exports from Africa to the Colonies were slaves. Known as “the middle passage”

• Exports of the N. Colonies to the Europe were sugar, tobacco, and cotton.

• Exports from the Europe to Africa were rum, textiles and manufactured goods.