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    All three colonies have their different personalities. Economy, social patterns and education all vary widely. Some colonies are more populated by whites and others are more populated by African Americans or they have more diversity. Middle colonies are more free and offer better economic opportunities. Many immigrants moved to the middle colonies for religious tolerance and an opportunity to a better quality life. Economy is the best in the middle colonies due to the fact that you can…

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    winters of New England, the thirteen original colonies grew and prospered in completely different ways. All thirteen of the original colonies were settled for different reasons, and as a result had different tactics for survival. They developed different types of industry, economies, government, agriculture, and religion. Not everything went according to plan, but in the end, they are the reason modern day America is the way it is. The thirteen original colonies realized soon after settlement…

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    thirteen colonies in America during the early to mid 1700s, there were the New England colonies, Middle colonies and Southern colonies. There was also a large population growth. The people moved to the colonies that best fit the travelers religion, lifestyle, and where land was available. These people had different ways of life and thinking. The New England colonies consisted of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire in 1730. The people that lived in the New England…

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    thirteen colonies were the perfect way to start our country. Because of where they were located, they gave our nation some of the defining cultural aspects we still see today. The colonies were split into three main sections: the southern colonies, the middle colonies, and the New England colonies. Each different area was responsible for providing different goods or services for the others. The southern colonies were based off of production of large cash crops on plantations. The middle colonies…

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    The American Revolutionary War is characterized by three phases being The New England phase, the middle colonies phase and The Southern phase which took place between 1775 and 1783. New England New England colonies consisted of 13 colonies which included Rhode Island colonies, Massachusetts, Providence Plantation and New Hampshire among others. France attempted on several occasions to colonize New England but failed. New England mainly carried out fishing and farming as the economic activities…

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    land-owning aristocrats. The Middle Colonies had a very diverse population and large cities of commerce and trade. The New England colonies were strongly dominated by Puritan religious influence. These differing social structures and values called for education to develop at different rates and in different ways. Being from Maryland, I am going to concentrate on the development of schooling in the middle colonies and the influence of diversity and commerce. The Middle Colonies were…

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    considered the thirteen colonies to be 3 very distinct regions, firstly because of the landscape. There was the North (New England), the Middle Colonies, the Southern Colonies, and the Chesapeake Colonies, which many historians consider to be part of the Southern Colonies. Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island made up New England. These colonies were small and poorer farming towns. Geographically, the area had a lot of timber/wood and fish. The Middle Colonies were…

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    In the early 17th century, the Puritans began populating the northern colonies of New England. Quakers quickly populated the middle colonies after the English seized the Northern colonies. Southern colonies didn’t practice religion with the same enthusiasm as the northern colonies. Southern colonist left their faith in the hands of their plantations. Not all New England colonists were Puritans, but the Puritan religion was a major influence in the seventeenth-century New England way of life.…

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    colonial areas: The Northern Colonies, Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies; each one had different geography that caused separation between each identity. For example. The Northern, Middle, and Southern colonies, all because of their geography, were extremely different in terms of economy, food, and the way of life. The geography of the different colonies of British North America influenced the separation from them and Great Britain by 1730. Not only were the colonies separating of each…

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    Massachusetts Bay both had similarities and different in colonies. In similarities Both of the colonies were successful and were brand new settlement. Both of the colonies were English many colonists found their lives were incredibly difficult. And colonies in both sites had to address the fact that the lands they claimed were already inhabited by Indians who would have a say in the future of both colonies.The differences between both colonies were the family structures, the class structure,…

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