13 Colonies Flashcards
New England Inhabitants
Main inhabitants: Pilgrims, Puritans
New England Main buisness
Fishing, Shipbuilding, tobbaco, rum lumber
Original New England Colonies
Massechewsetts Rhode Island Conneticut New Hampshire
Original Middle Colonies
Pensylvania New york New Jersey Deleware
Middle Colonies Buisnesses
Fertile soil
Grew Wheat
Corn
Main Inhabitants of Middle Colonies
Quakers (main)
Lutherans
Dutch Calvinists
Mennonites
Southern Colonies
Maryland Virginia North Carolina Suuth Carolina Georgia
South Colonies experties
Mining
Due to excesive greed they did not farm enough and 7/10 people died due to hunger
Farming
Rich farm lands
grew year round also due to excesive slavery
Indentured Servants
People who work for money, but certain weeks or months werent paid
Indentured Servants reason for moving?
Couldnt find work in Europe, Rich ppl in america payed for their trip to america to work for them for a certain ammount of years then were free men
Punishments of Indentured Servants
They would ussualy be given 7 years but owner would falsely accuse them and punish them by making them work for them longer
Problem of Indentured Servants
Were Expensive
When Freed would buy all the land
Solution to Indentured Servants
They would buy African Slaves to work for free
Puritans
Wanted Religious Freedom
Anglicans
Upper Middle Class
College Education
Worked With Church of England to make it pure of sinners
Pilgrims
Wanted Religious Freedom
Poor
No Education
Separtists