Colonial
Regions
SS4H3: The students will
explain the factors that shaped
British Colonial America
Why did the Colonists Come?
The Three Regions
New England
Mid-Atlantic
Colonies
Southern
Colonies
New England
Geography
North Eastern Woodlands
Very Short Growing Season
Long Cold Winters
Large Forests
On the Atlantic Ocean-Good Coastal Harbors
Could not navigate through the rivers
Rocky Soil
New England
Culture
PRODUCTS
Subsistence Farming
Timber and Ship Building
Supplies (Rope, Masts,
Tar)
Grew corn, dairy, wheat,
potatoes, cattle and barley
Dried Fish and whaling
Daily Life
PEOPLE
Puritans and Pilgrims
who believed in working
hard and following strict
rules.
Merchants,
Manufacturers, and
Lawyers.
New England
Home Life
Wood Plank Houses - built in one day
One long room with a fireplace at one end
Dirt Floors and small windows
There was also a loft that was used to store
supplies
New England
Government
Self-Governing
Charters
New Hampshire
Town Meetings
The Mayflower
Compact – first
governing
document
The Fundamental
Orders of
Connecticut
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Mid-Atlantic Colonies
Geography
Lower Eastern
Woodlands
Medium growing
season and cold
winters.
Many lakes and
rivers for
transportation.
Mid-Atlantic Colonies
Culture
PRODUCTS
Called the bread basket
colonies
Farmed and traded wheat,
oat, barley and rye.
Made homespun
products.
Industrial – textiles, paper
and Iron
Cities become a place for
a lot of commerce with
many merchants, artisans
and laborers
PEOPLE
People from: England, the
Netherlands, France,
Germany and others.
Puritans, Quakers,
Anglicans, Catholics, and
Jews.
Very diverse
Mid-Atlantic Colony
Home Life
Built log Cabins – Forest
Tables and chairs were made from log
slabs held together with wooden pegs
Some fancier homes were one and half
stories and had a small front porch
The beds were hidden in walls and the
front door was divided into halves
Mid-Atlantic Colonies
Government
Proprietary
Charters
Religious
Freedom and
Tolerance
Freedom of the
Press
Strong Courts
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
New York
Southern Colonies
Geography
Fertile Soil
Forest – Pine
Wetlands
Good Coastal Harbors
Warm Climate all year round
Southern Colonies
People
English Plantation Owners
Indentured Servants
Transported Criminals and Slaves.
Southern Colonies
Culture
PRODUCTS
Farmed Tobacco, Rice, Indigo, and Cotton.
Trade “cash crops” farmed on Plantations.
Purchase manufactured goods.
Southern Colonies
Home Life
Most people lived in small wooden houses
Plantation Mansion – Two stories high and
had eight rooms
– Main house had imported furniture
– Small, one room houses for the servants and
the slaves
– Each plantation was run like an independent
village
– The cotton and tobacco plantations used
forced slave labor
Southern Colonies
Government
Joint-Stock andVirginia
Proprietary
Charters- People
given land by a
British officials to
develop it and
make the laws
The House of
Burgesses
Life in Virginia
Maryland
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Colonial Regions
Vocabulary
Merchant: A person who produces or trades
goods.
Subsistence Farming: When a family grows
only enough food to survive.
Homespun: Products that are made at home
(furniture, clothing, etc.)
Cash Crops: Crops that are grown in large
amounts and sold for a profit.
Colonial Regions
Vocabulary
Indentured Servants: People who are
brought to the colonies and must work to pay
off the trip.
Transported Criminals: Criminals that are
taken from jail and made to work in the
colonies.
Slaves: People captured in Africa and sold to
plantation owners. The plantation owner
saw them as property.
Colonial
Regions
Jamestown
Game