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Massachusetts
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Puritans came looking for relgious freedom
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unlevel land
harsh, long winters rocky ground |
able to grow own food-not sell
earn $ fishing, selling lumber and trading |
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New York
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Europeans came to make money and to farm
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warm spring/summers
cold fall/winters |
grew corn and wheat
"Bread Colonies" shipped goods overseas |
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Maryland
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looking for gold and wanted to get rich quickly by trading with the Indians
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warm climate
good soil with many farms |
planted tobacco and rice
plantations grew food used 50-100 slaves on plantations |
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New Hampshire
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Connecticut
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Rhode Island
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New Jersey
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Pennsylvania
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Delaware
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Virginia
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North Carolina
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South Carolina
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Georgia
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Quakers settled in this region
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Chief exports were:
indigo, rice, and tobacco |
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Chief exports were:
fish, ships, wood products |
The first colony to allow religious freedom was in this region
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A colony in this region was created as a place for English debtor to live
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main food-growing region in colonial North America
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most slaves worked in this region
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This region treated all groups of people equally except for the Africans
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