The Thirteen Colonies

By Olia Billings

The Thirteen Colonies English colonies along the East Coast

These colonies later formed the United States

New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia

Broken into three groups

New England Colonies

Rhode Island

Connecticut

Massachusetts

New Hampshire

New England Colonies: Attributes

Settlers in the New England colonies were mainly people who wanted to find religious freedom. These people were called Pilgrims.

Shipbuilding was very important to the settlers because of the ports that were easy to get to.

Mercantilism was a large part of the colonies because the colonists believed they must export more than they import for the nation to improve.

New England Colonies: Triangular Trade Effects

The New England Colonies produced rum which was used to trade for slaves in West Africa.

It also produced iron, gunpowder, cloth and tools.

New England Colonies: The Great Awakening Effects

Religious started to break away from old religion.

This had an effect on government and politics in New England

This also helped colonists understand the power of religion belonged to them.

New England Colonies: Enlightenment Thinking Effects Many founding fathers were

influenced by enlightenment ideas.

They wanted to keep up with Europe so they produced education and advancements in science and medicine.

This plus increased increased religious freedom and helped move the colonies being toward a more modern society.

Balance and order of enlightenment thinking influenced the balance of power of the American Government.

Southern Colonies Maryland

Virginia

North Carolina

South Carolina

Georgia

Southern Colonies Colonists in the south relied on

slaves for labor which helped develop the Carolina colonies.

Colonists were very focused on making money and would move their entire family so they would help in the farms.

The colonies were mostly agricultural and had lots of farmland and plantations. The colonists would grow cash crops like tobacco, corn, and rice which helped the colonists make money.

Southern Colonies: Triangular Trade Effects

Southern colonies settled for economic reasons instead of religious reasons.

Their farming was very important.

They needed slaves because the farming of cash crops like tobacco, and indigo, required so much labor.

African slaves were an important part of the triangular trade route to the southern colonies.

Southern Colonies: The Great Awakening Effects

The Southern Colonies were similar to the Middles.

They promoted their ideas like Democracy and Freedom of the Press.

This promoted the thought that everyone has a voice in the way the government works.

Southern Colonies: Enlightenment Thinking Effects Also similar to the Middle.

It promoted separation of powers in government and people are automatically given some rights.

Middle Colonies Pennsylvania

New York

New Jersey

Delaware

Middle Colonies Settlers in the Middle Colonies

wanted to practice their own religion. The Middle Colonies had Quakers, who were a religious group of people that are against violence and war.

The colonies were the most socially, politically, and economically diverse but the people did not bring their families from England with them.

They would work on farms and did ironwork.

The Middle Colonies were part Agriculture and part Industrial. The colonists would grow things like wheat and other grains on their farms and worked in factories in Maryland and produced things like paper and textiles.

Middle Colonies: Triangular Trade Effects

The Middle Colonies sent much of their goods back to Europe and very little to trade for slave, because they didn’t need.

Middle Colonies: The Great Awakening Effects

The Middle Colonies were similar to the South.

They promoted their ideas like Democracy and Freedom of the Press.

This promotes the thought that everyone has a voice in the way the government works.

Middle Colonies: Enlightenment Thinking Effects Also similar to the south.

It promoted separation of powers in government and people are automatically given some rights.

It also helped create some of the first Universities, like university of Pennsylvania.