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EUROPEAN
COLONIZATION
British colonies
Chesapeake Region New England Region
1st permanent English colony Plymouth Colony (1620)
Financed by the Virginia Joint Stock Company The plymouh colony were pilgrim separatists that
Initially struggled with disease and Starvation broke away from the Anglican Church.
Cash crop-Tobacco Mayflower compact established self government
Massachussetts Bay colony(1630) by the Puritans
Plantations developed because of heavy reliance
The Massachusetts Bay colony consisted of small
on tobacco
towns&family farms which used a mixed economy
Increased Demand for Indentured Servants.
of agriculture and trade like fishing and farming.
Southern Region Middle region
Main cash crops, rice(South Carolina, and Georgia) The most diverse region ethnically and religiously
tobacco(North Carolina), sugar cane(West indies) Pennsylvania valued religious toleration as quakers.
and indigo(Georgia). New York was taken over by the Dutch and was
Plantation economy therefore relied heavily on originally New Amsterdam
African slave labor(South Carolina) The Middle region was an export economy
South Carolina was wealthy, North Carolina relied focusing on cereal crops(wheat and corn).
less on slavery. West Indies had strict slave labor
Nicknamed the breadbasket colony.
from the start. Georgia at first banning slavery
later evolves into a plantation economy.
Mercantilism
An economic policy that created an unfavorable balance of trade established to enrich the mother country(Britain).
Mercantilism helped protect against the French and Spanish competition because the colonies were guaranteed
markets for Manufactured goods.
Colonies could only trade with Britain, which allowed the British to control costs.
The development of mercantilism led to the establishment of port cities and. Merchant class.
The navigation acts led to colonists smuggling goods, however mercantilist laws were not heavily enforced until after
the French and Indian war in 1763.
EUROPEAN
COLONIZATION
British colonies
Chesapeake Region New England Region
1st permanent English colony Plymouth Colony (1620)
Financed by the Virginia Joint Stock Company The plymouh colony were pilgrim separatists that
Initially struggled with disease and Starvation broke away from the Anglican Church.
Cash crop-Tobacco Mayflower compact established self government
Massachussetts Bay colony(1630) by the Puritans
Plantations developed because of heavy reliance
The Massachusetts Bay colony consisted of small
on tobacco
towns&family farms which used a mixed economy
Increased Demand for Indentured Servants.
of agriculture and trade like fishing and farming.
Southern Region Middle region
Main cash crops, rice(South Carolina, and Georgia) The most diverse region ethnically and religiously
tobacco(North Carolina), sugar cane(West indies) Pennsylvania valued religious toleration as quakers.
and indigo(Georgia). New York was taken over by the Dutch and was
Plantation economy therefore relied heavily on originally New Amsterdam
African slave labor(South Carolina) The Middle region was an export economy
South Carolina was wealthy, North Carolina relied focusing on cereal crops(wheat and corn).
less on slavery. West Indies had strict slave labor
Nicknamed the breadbasket colony.
from the start. Georgia at first banning slavery
later evolves into a plantation economy.
Mercantilism
An economic policy that created an unfavorable balance of trade established to enrich the mother country(Britain).
Mercantilism helped protect against the French and Spanish competition because the colonies were guaranteed
markets for Manufactured goods.
Colonies could only trade with Britain, which allowed the British to control costs.
The development of mercantilism led to the establishment of port cities and. Merchant class.
The navigation acts led to colonists smuggling goods, however mercantilist laws were not heavily enforced until after
the French and Indian war in 1763.
