LEQ: Compare and contrast the founding and development of the Northern British Colonies, the Middle British Colonies, and the Southern British colonies

into sen 1

Despite the Northern, Middle, and Southern colonies all being of British descent they all have similarities and differences.

intro sen 2

There were distinct groups that settled in the North and in the Middle colonies but not in the South.

intro sen 3

The northern group that settled was the Puritans, and in the middle, it was the Quakers.

intro sen 4

The two major similarities and differences that they all share are religious and economic.

BP1 sen 1

In the North and Middle Colonies, they both settled for religious issues.

BP1 sen 2

The Puritans came over to the New World because they split off from the church of England.

BP1 sen 3

The Quakers had a lot of disagreements with the British government due to religious beliefs which led them to settle in the New World.

PB1 sen 4

The Northern colony established a very religious colony, however, the Quakers established a more religiously diverse colony.

BP1 sen 5

When the Puritans came the Wampanoag Indians welcomed them and tried to help them out but the Puritans did not respect them.

BP1 sen 6

When the Quakers came over they tried to live peacefully with the Native American peoples.

BP1 sen 7

William Penn who created the Quaker colony Pennsylvania wrote a letter to the Native American Peoples.

BP1 sen 8

In William Penn’s letter to the Native American Peoples, he describes wanting to live as neighbors and friends.

BP1 sen 9

He did not want to have disagreements with the Native American Peoples and have to move again.

BP1 sen 10

North and Middle Colonies both share similarities and differences with each other.

BP2 sen 1

The North and the South both settled for different reasons.

BP2 sen 2

The South came to the New World for economic reasons, unlike the Southern colonies, the Northern Puritans settled for religious issues.

BP2 sen 3

The South settled Jamestown along with the Virginia Company which was a joint stock company.

BP2 sen 4

The south relid on cash crops like tobacco for their economy however, the Puritans did not rely on cash crops for their economy.

BP2 sen 5

They relied on fishing, timber, logging, and shipbuilding, while the South would grow tobacco and would send it to England.

BP2 sen 6

Farmers needed help with growing their crops so they would get trafficked African Americans to be their slaves.

BP2 sen 7

This was more popular in the South but the Northern colonies did have some slaves.

BP2 sen 8

If farmers didn’t have slaves then they had indentured servants, where poor people would sell themselves to work for 4-7 years then they could be free.

BP2 sen 9

But farmers would make it hard to live to the end of the indenture.

BP2 sen 10

Richard Frethorne was a kid but sold himself into indentured servitude.

BP2 sen 11

He wrote a letter to his parents begging them to buy him back due to the harsh living conditions.

BP2 sen 12

The North and South had many differences.

BP3 sen 1

The middle and southern colonies both settled for different reasons.

BP3 sen 2

The Quakers came due to religious disagreements with England and the South came for economy.

BP3 sen 3

For economy the Quakers and the southern colonies relied a lot on farming, the Quakers especially farmed oats.

BP3 sen 4

The southern and middle colonies both shared slavery however there were a lot more slaves in the south than in the middle colonies.

BP3 sen 5

A lot of people in the south were Christians while people had more religious freedom in the middle colonies.

BP3 sen 6

If you were a Christian in the South then you could not be a slave but this changed due to the Virginia Slave Statutes, which described being allowed to have Christian slaves.

BP3 sen 7

This made for more slaves to be available for people to buy.

BP3 sen 8

The middle and southern colonies both had slavery in common.

Con sen 1

The Northern colonies differed from the middle, and southern colonies for economics.

con sen 2

The southern colonies differed from the northern and middle colonies for why they were established in the New World, but they all had slavery in common.

con sen 3

They all share some similarities and differences throughout their colonies.