Do you think that America will always be a democracy?

Or do you think one day we will be a dictatorship or any other type of government?

During the 1600s-1700s 13 colonies were formed: 1-Religious freedom from English Church

(Protestant) Called Puritans…wanted their church to be more

pure

2- Expanding European empires/countries

3- Money from trading with other countries

New England Colonies Massachusetts Connecticut New Hampshire Rhode Island

Middle Colonies Delaware Pennsylvania New York New Jersey

Southern Colonies Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia

Where you lived influenced your way of life.

New England colonies: fishing, timber and shipping.

Middle colonies: farming

Southern colonies: rice and tobacco plantations for this cash crop warm weather ideal for this.

Higher birth rates…greater population…more cities

Better transportation (boats, carriages)

Industry #1…controlled production of goods.

Geography/fear of Indians force close relations

Requires Public Education

Diversity of Agriculture

Forests for shipbuilding

Wide gap between rich and poor

Slaves were made to work the land

Few cities and poor transportation

Agriculture #1

Cash crops indigo, rice, and tobacco

Plantations so travel not as important Everything you needed was on plantation

site

Mayflower Compact Signed by Pilgrims coming

over on Mayflower ship from England.

Document stating they were still loyal to the King of England but wanted to have their own laws.

Town Meetings Plymouth, MA. Everyone comes together

and votes on issues and make laws…still seen today!

Fundamental Orders of 1638 Document sent to England

that would guarantee the existence of their current way of life

Did not want to live under England’s laws in America.

1ST WRITTEN CONSTITUTION OF NEW WORLD

Jamestown, VA

Joint-Stock Colony When wealthy English

men put money together and invested in a trading company

Began to export tobacco to England

Plantation Systems division of the land into smaller units under private ownership

tobacco, rice, sugar cane and cotton were labor intensive