Saturday, March 3, 2012

Compare and contrast southern middle and new england political, economic, social, and religious patterns?

This is what I have so far, I think the answer might be too long though since I have to compare and contrast political, social, and religious too.





3. Economic: New England) With rocky soil and long winters, farming was limited to subsistence levels that provided just enough for the farm family. The industrious descendants of the Puritans profited from logging, shipbuilding, fishing, trading, and rum-distilling.



Middle Colonies) Rich soil attracted farmers from Europe and produced and abundance of wheat and corn for export to Europe and the West Indies. Trading led to the growth of cities such as Philadelphia and New York.



Southern Colonies) The south鈥檚 varied geography and climate, farming ranged from small subsistence farming to large plantations. Cash crops were mainly tobacco in the Chesapeake and North Carolina colonies, and rice and indigo from South Carolina and Georgia. Had an increased use of slaves as a result of decreasing indentured servants



Things all three colonies had in common were: the forced use of limited hard currency, such as gold and sliver, to pay for the imports from England that increasingly exceeded colonial exports. Many colonies issued paper money, but this led to inflation.Compare and contrast southern middle and new england political, economic, social, and religious patterns?
Patterns also developed in which Europeans moving to North America for religious reasons favored North England, especially if they were from England. Non English groups (Scots, Irish, Germans) were more concentrated in the middle colonies.



Your existing points make sense, except I think one has cause and effect reversed. African slaves transported in larger numbers after 1700, were a cause of decreases in indentured servitude.

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