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going north to south

growing season gets longer, farms get bigger and towns get smaller

New england

MA, NH, CT, RI

New England farming

thin, rocky soil and a short season so they turned to the sea

New England sea

cod whaling and shipbuilding

Puritans

founded New England seeking religious community

New England Government

Town council with ordinary men, giving them the leadership experience they used to gain independence

Literacy

Highest in New England since everyone had to read scripture

The middle colonies

NY, PA, NJ, DE

Middle colonies nickname

the breadbasket for how much wheat and grain it had

Philadelphia and New York

The two busiest ports in British North America

William Penn

Founded Pennsylvania on religious toleration

Great Wagon Road

was walked upon by Germans and Scots-Irish that landed in Phillidelphia walked south to NC

The southern Colonies

MD, VA, NC, SC, GA

MD/VA

Tobacco

SC/GA

rice and indigo

Few towns grew

since plantations shipped from their own landings

Charleston

The richest city and single great southern port

1750

this economy depended totally on enslaved labor

Maryland

Chartered to the Calvert family in 1632 as a refuge for english catholics

The 1649 Maryland Toleration act

the first colonial law requiring tolerance for catholics

1689

Protestant rule stripped Maryland Catholics of the vote and banned them from holding office

Charles Caroll of Carrollton

The only Catholic to sign the Declaration

John Carroll

Became the first US Catholic Bishop in 1789

1774 laws of Quebec

Colonists called these law intolerable as they protected Catholic worship and they were scared the English would start controlling them as well.

NC shipwrecks

Known as the graveyard of the Atlantic for its shoals and sandbars

Eastern NC

Old, heavily English, wealthy

West Carolina

back country, Scots-Irish and Germans who were largely ignored

No deep water harbor

no deep port city

Longleaf pine

gave NC tar, pitch, and turpentine

The Regulartor movement

Back country farmers against corrupt officials and unfair taxes

Battle of Alamance

Gov. Tyron crushed the Regulator movement

May 1771

Battle of Alamance

1766-1771

Regulator movement

1763

French and indian war ends, britain is deep in debt

1765

Stamp Act taxes all paper goods, the colonies erupt

1770

Boston massacre, 5 colonists were killed

1773

Boston tea party

1774

coercive acts, first continental congress meets

1775

Lexington and Concord, the shooting starts

1765

Townshend acts tax glass, paint, paper, and tea

The proclamation line 1763

barred settlement west of the Appalachian that they had just fought a war for

The stamp act 1765

the first direct internal tax on colonists

the coercive acts 1774

punished a whole colony collectively

Colonists consistent view

they card less about the tax, and more about who chose it

Colonists arguement

an Englishman could only be taxed by by a body he had helped elect

Parliaments answer

Virtual representation where members represented every English subject, not just their district