THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES The people who settled in the New England Colonies were the Separatist Puritans called Pilgrims. ... THE SOUTHERN COLONIES The first people who came to Virginia were the English. ... They also planted rice and had rice plantations in the Southern Colonies. ... In other words the Southern colonies succeded partly because of women and Africans. The Southern Colonies were different from others because they didn't care about religious freedom, but came here to get rich instead. ...

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