1. Unit 1 Part 8 Review: Characteristics of Colonial Regions Chart

2. Present Day States New England Massachusetts New Hampshire Middle
Colonial Region
New England
Middle
Colonies
Southern
Present Day States
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia

3. Reasons for Settlement
Group(s)/Origin
Pilgrims: England
Puritans: England
English, Dutch, and German Settlers
Quakers: England
Huguenots: France
Cavaliers (noblemen with land grants in Va from the king): England
Poor English and Scots-Irish immigrants: England
Indentured Servants: England
Enslaved persons: Africa
Reasons for Settlement
Religious Freedom
To create a Puritan commonwealth
Economic Opportunity
Religious Freedom
Economic Opportunity
Business Venture (Virginia Company of London)

4. Quakers: Pennsylvania Huguenots: French Protestants Jews: New York
Religious Group(s)
Puritans
Quakers: Pennsylvania
Huguenots: French Protestants
Jews: New York
Presbyterians: New Jersey
Anglicans: Church of England

5. Economy (Products/Commerce)
Lumber, shipbuilding, trade, molasses, fur trade, fishing, subsistence farming
Later, manufacturing
Shipbuilding, small-scale farming, trade
(Big cities like New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore grew as seaports and commercial centers)
Eastern coastal lowlands: Plantations, Cash Crops based on slave labor: Tobacco, Rice, Indigo
Inland mountain and valley areas: subsistence farming, hunting, trading

6. Used many different democratic principles
Government
Religion and government were tied together. (theocracy)
Practiced direct democracy through town meetings.
Set up a “covenant community” with the Mayflower Compact.
Used many different democratic principles
that reflected the basic rights of Englishmen
Representative government
Dominated by large landowners (planters) from the Eastern lowlands who played lead roles in representative colonial legislatures

7. Based on religious standing Puritans were intolerant of dissenters
Social Standing
Based on religious standing
Puritans were intolerant of dissenters
Flexible social structure
Large middle class built around artisans,
Entrepreneurs (business owners), and
Small farmers
Eastern coastal lowlands: society based on family status and land ownership
Inland mountain and valley areas:
society made up of subsistence farmers, hunters and traders of Scots-Irish and English descent

8. Other important information
Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams, who was escaping persecution by Puritans in Massachusetts
More religiously tolerant
First elected assembly in the New World was Virginia’s
House of Burgesses. Today it is known as the Virginia
General Assembly. It is the longest operating elected assembly in the World.
Closer social ties to England