1. Aim: How did geography shape the economies of the Colonial Regions?
Do Now: Describe 1 similarity and 1 difference between the Mayflower Compact and the House of Burgesses
Objectives SWBAT:
Explain 2 factors that shaped the colonial Economies
Evaluate how superficial the colonial regional differences were.
H.W. Complete your map activity as well as the bookwork assignment on Engrade.

2. Environment, Culture, and Migration.
Colonial Regions
Environment, Culture, and Migration.

3. The Three Regions
New England
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies

4. Mercantilism What is mercantilism? “Triangular Trade”
An economic system with the overall goal of increasing a nation’s total wealth. (Exports to other nations should exceed imports from them.) This was done by extracting raw materials from colonies and using them to created finished goods to sell to other countries.
“Triangular Trade”

5. Triangular Trade

6. New England Economy PRODUCTS Subsistence Farming
Timber and Ship Building Supplies (Rope, Masts, Tar)
Dried Fish
Rum and other Manufactured Trade Goods

7. Middle Colonies Economy
PRODUCTS
Called the Bread Colonies
Farmed Wheat, Oat, Barley and Rye.
Made homespun products.
Traded very little.

8. Southern Colonies Economy
PRODUCTS
Farmed Tobacco, Rice, Indigo, and Cotton.
Trade “cash crops” farmed on Plantations.
Purchase manufactured goods.
Quickly became dependent on slavery.

9. Why did indentured servitude decline as a source of labor?
Decrease in English birth rate and colonial death rate.
Increase in English prosperity.
Avoidance of harsh working conditions in Southern colonies.
Fear of instability from former servants in society. (Bacon’s rebellion )

10. Labor Indentured Servants Slaves pp. 66-67
Where Historians Disagree, “The Origins of Slavery,” pp
Was slavery a result of white racism or help to create it?

11. Slavery Vs. Indentured Servitude

12. New England Society First College Towns centered around a common.
Patriarchal structure
Towns were close knit. Everyone knew each other
Boston, New Hartford & Providence
Boston, New Hartford & Providence
Equal Gender ratio

13. Middle Colonies Society
Fastest growing cities (GDP and population) with New York and Philadelphia.
More Newspapers
Was the Nucleus for English America

14. Southern Society. Largely Plantation based.
Carroll plantation 40,000 acres with 285 slaves.
More males than females
Women were expected to serve predominantly as child bearers

15. Colonial Governments in the 1750s
Self-governing Colonies
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Proprietary Colonies
Delaware
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Royal Colonies
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New York*
New Jersey*
Virginia
North Carolina/South Carolina*
Georgia
* = former proprietary colony

16. New England Government
Self-Governing Charters
Town Meetings
The Mayflower Compact
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Laws often reflected puritan beliefs
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island

17. Middle Colonies Government
New York
Proprietary Charters
Religious Freedom and Tolerance
Freedom of the Press (Peter Zenger
Strong Courts based on the English system
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware

18. Southern Colonies Government
Maryland
Virginia
Joint-Stock and Proprietary Charters.
The House of Burgesses
Colonies run for the profit of the Joint-Stock Company or Proprietors.
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia

19. Assess the validity…
“To the degree that the colonists emulated English society, they were becoming more and more like one another. To the degree that they were shaped by the character of their own regions, they were becoming more and more diverse.”
-- Alan Brinkley, p. 65

20. Essay Assignment
Using the information in the textbook and your class notes, assess the validity of Brinkley’s argument in the form of a 5-8 paragraph reflection.
Address at least three of the following areas: government, economics, geography, religion, and society.
Provide specific examples from the colonies to support your thesis.
Remember to ask: WHY? HOW? SO WHAT?

21. Colonial Regions
The End