This was much better than the Southern Colonies or the New England Colonies. ... The Southern Colonies The Settlers of Virginia: The first people who came to Virginia were the English. ... They also planted rice and had rice plantations in the Southern Colonies. ... Some Africans knew how to grow rice, and that was very useful to the Southern Colonists. Southern Colonies' Difference From Others: 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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They divided them into three groups: The New England colonies (Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire), The Middle Colonies (Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey) and The Southern Colonies (Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia). The New England, Middle and Southern Colonies grew differently over the period 1619-1760.Examining the three sets of colonies will prove that they were all different: socially, economically, and politically. ... The founders of the Southern Colonies were, for the most part, out to make money. ... The Southern ...

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Geographic Conditions of New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies The New England, Middle, and Southern colonies are affected by the geographic conditions of each region in which the colonies are located. ... The Southern colonies have long growing seasons, fertile land, and large plantations, which make the colonies successful. ... The southern colonies did however, have a warm climate, swamps, and thick rich soil. ... Tobacco became the cash crop for the Southern colonies. ... With the help of John Rolfe, tobacco became a cash crop for the Southern colonies. ...

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The colonies were split into three main sections: the southern colonies, the middle colonies, and the New England colonies. ... The southern colonies were based off production of large cash crops on plantations. ... The southern colonies were where most of the food for the colonies was produced. The southern colonies had the ideal land for agriculture and farming. ... The middle colonies didn't have the huge amounts of land that the southern colonies grew cash crops on, but they had very fertile soil that made for great local farms. ...

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On the other hand, there were regions in Colonial America that gained mass appeal to immigrants, fertile land and fitting conditions forced many settlers down to the middle and southern colonies, in search for their own fortunes. ... New England represented the least ethnic mix over the middle and southern colonies. ... Generally, the middle colonies were less aristocratic than New England and the Southern Colonies. ... The southern colonies were dominated by a plantation economy of tobacco and rice. ... The influence of African culture into the southern colonies was very strong due to the lar...

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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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First, the common origins of the New England, Middle and Southern colonies shaped a unified American society. ... This did not only take place in the southern colonies, but also in the New England and middle colonies. ... It didn't matter how the New England and Middle colonies differed from the Southern Colonies in their methods to achieve their original ideals. ... These settings thus contribute to the origins of these colonies, because they provide the resources that shape the lifestyle of the people, which characterizes New England from Middle from Southern colonies. ... The ways of l...

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They were called New England, the Middle Colonies and the Southern colonies. These colonies were quite distinctive from each other. ... The colonies of America material culture consisted of food, clothes and their shelter. ... The Southern region also had multiple feasting days. ... The Southern region's shelters varied with one's wealth. ...

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By the seventeenth century, the Southern Colonies (Georgia, Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia), New England (Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire), and the Chesapeake region (Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, and New Jersey) had already developed into three distinct societies who, despite coming from the same mother country and bearing similarities, functioned as three separate regions. ... The Chesapeake colonies began as private colonies. ... Similar to the Chesapeake region, the Southern colonies were founded by the upper class of England. ... Both the Chesapeak...

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The economy of the southern colonies was greatly dependent on slaves, which grew at an overwhelming rate from the years of 1607-1775. ... Before slaves began importing by great masses to the colonies, and manual labor was still needed, Virginia and Maryland established the "headright" system, encouraging the unemployed bourgeois of England to immigrate to America and work as servants. ... The velocious growth in slavery and slave trade was significantly influenced by economic, geographic, and social factors of the Southern colonies. ... Before the New England colonies actually conducted in sl...

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These two regions that the colonists were sent to were known as the Chesapeake and New England colonies. ... An issue that split the New England and Chesapeake colonies was slavery. ... With the low amount of laborers, slavery was the answer to the southern people's problems. ... Unlike the Chesapeake colonies, the New England colonies were known for having an abundance of fish, wood, and furs. ... These two regions of the New England colonies and the Chesapeake colonies did share the common fact that the settlers were all of English origin. ...

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Most went to the West Indies or Latin American colonies. About five percent went to the colonies in America. ... The Africans remaining on board were sold to the colonies. ... But the southern colonists paid little attention to this and the emphasis was placed on training the slaves for plantation work. ...

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