Attachment A: Characteristics of Early Exploration and Colonization in the New World __________________________
Region
New England
Middle
Atlantic
Southern
(including
Virginia)
Group(s)/Origin
Reasons for Settlement
Products/Commerce
Present-Day
States
Attachment B: Characteristics of Early Exploration and Colonization in the New World—Key ____________________
Region
Group(s)/Origin
Pilgrims: England
New England
Puritans: England
Reasons for Settlement
Religious freedom
To create a Puritan
commonwealth
Products/Commerce
Present-Day
States
Lumber, shipbuilding, trade,
molasses, fur trade, fishing,
subsistence farming
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Shipbuilding, small-scale
farming, trade
Delaware
Maryland
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
English, Dutch, and German settlers
Middle
Atlantic
Economic opportunity
Quakers: England
Religious freedom
Huguenots: France
Cavaliers (noblemen with land grants in
Virginia from the king): England
Poor English and Scots-Irish
immigrants: England
Southern
(including
Virginia)
Economic opportunity
Cash-crops: indigo, rice, tobacco
Debtors and other prisoners: England
Noblemen: England
Indentured servants: England
Enslaved persons: Africa
Business venture
(Virginia Company of
London)
Plantations
Georgia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia