Regional Differences
Among the Colonies
New
England
Regional
Differences
Among the
Colonies
Middle
Chesapeake
Lower
South
The
Chesapeake
and Lower
Middle
South also
differed
between
coastal and
inland
Frontier
Tidewater
New
England
A resource activity for review:
*note that this review breaks up the
Chesapeake and Southern colonies by
distinguishing frontier (inland) from
tidewater (coastal)
Please set up your paper as follows…
1. With your paper in
landscape, create a table
5 across, 7 down.
2. Down the side, label
the following: Geographic
Conditions, Ways of
Making a Living,
Nationalities, Religions,
Settlement Patterns, and
Educational
Opportunities.
NE
GC
M
T
F
X
WML
N
R
SP
X
EO
X
3. Across the top:
New England, Middle,
Tidewater, and Frontier.
Use the following general statements to complete your chart.
Geographic Conditions
• flat, fertile plain/long growing
season
• rocky soil, rugged coastline/short
growing season
• rolling hills
Religions
• mostly Anglicans
• mostly Presbyterians
• mostly Puritans
• mixture of Catholics, Quakers,
Presbyterians, & Anglicans
Ways of Making a Living
• money crop = tobacco
• mostly small subsistence farmers
• “breadbasket colonies” growing
grains
• fishing shipbuilding, and trade
Settlement Patterns
• almost entirely small subsistence
farms
• lots of towns and cities
• scattered plantations and small
farms
Nationalities
• highly mixed – German, ScotchIrish, British, Dutch
• mostly British
• mostly British
• mostly Scotch-Irish
Educational Opportunities
• excellent education for the
wealthy/little for anyone else
• best education for the most people
• very little formal education
Answers follow on next page…
Ways to Make Geographic
Conditions
Living
New Eng
rocky soil,
rugged
coastline,
short
growing
season
Middle
X
Tidewater
flat fertile
plain, long
growing
season
Frontier
rolling hills
fishing,
“breadbasket tobacco was mostly small
shipbuilding,
colonies”
the money subsistence
farmers
trade
growing
crop
grains
mostly
British
highly
mixed
mostly
British
mostly
Scotch-Irish
Education Settlement Religion
Opportunity Patterns
New Eng
mostly
Puritans
many towns
and cities
best
education
for the most
people
Middle
mix of
Catholics,
Quakers,
Presbyterians,
Anglicans
X
X
Tidewater
mostly
Anglicans
Frontier
mostly
Presbyterians
scattered
plantations
and small
farms
almost
entirely
small
subsistence
farming
excellent
education for
wealthy/ little
for anyone
else
very little
formal
education
So…
New
England
thirteen
original
colonies…
Middle
Chesapeake
all the same?
Lower
South
When reviewing… think about thematic differences
in development and life:
Colonial Roots and Development
New England:
Middle
Colonies:
MA, RI, CT, NH,
ME
NY, NJ, PA, DE
Political &
Why settled
Economic-
Social-
Chesapeake:
Lower South:
VA, MD
NC, SC, GA