Colonial America

Colonial America

New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies Ms. Willcox' Social Studies

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Geography of Colonial America

Economic of Colonial America

Government of Colonial America

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The Great Awakening

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• Southern Colonies
• Fertile farmland
• Large plantations
• Very few urban areas

• New England Colonies
• Harbors
• Dense forests
• Not ideal for farming
• Small family farms
• Middle Colonies
• Fertile farmland
• Natural harbors
• Grain and livestock

Geography

• Southern Colonies
• Large plantations
• Cash crops
• Indigo
• Rice
• tobacco

• New England Colonies
• Fishing and shipbuilding
• Lumbering
• Fur trading
• Triangular trade
• Middle Colonies
• Raising livestock
• Farming grain
• Trade of raw materials

Economics

• Southern Colonies
• Bacon’s Rebellion

• New England Colonies
• New England Confederation
• Mayflower Compact
• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
• Middle Colonies
• Continental Congress
• Declaration of Independence

Government

Primary Source Evidence: Chief Powhatan's Address to Captain John Smith

• Revivalist movement: human sinfulness, need for grace
• Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield
• Rapid spread throughout the colonies
• Controversial ideas
• More Christians became Baptists or Methodists
• Unifying factor
• Promoted ideals of liberty

The Great Awakening

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NewEngland

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NewEngland

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