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Rhode Island
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
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Reason for settlement
Keep family together
Religious freedom
Independence
Geography
Rocky and cold
Narrow costal plain
Economy
Rich in fish
Farming
Women worked
mostly in the home
Major Port
Boston, Massachusetts
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 New York
 Connecticut
 New Jersey
 Pennsylvania
 Delaware
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Reason for settlement
Practice religion
Make money
Did not bring their families
Geography
Part rural
(farms)
Part industrial (cities)
Economy
Sold wheat and grains
Produced iron and paper
Very diverse population
Major Port
New York City, New York
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Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
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Reason for settlement
Make money
People built big houses
and tried to keep the
culture of England
alive
Kept families together on
plantations
Economy
Almost entirely farming
Yeoman farmers and slave labor
Geography
Open fields
Warm climate
Rural
Major Port
Charleston, South Carolina
Southern Colonial home
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This would be your main source of
income if you lived in which region
during colonial America:
New England
Middle
South
 Fishing was the main source of income
for the New England Colonies.
 The south relied on agriculture
 The middle colonies relied on a
combination of agriculture and
industry
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Middle & South
New England & South
New England & Middle
 In the Middle colonies, people did not generally raise
families. These colonists were usually single, young
adults trying to make money.
 The New England, and Southern colonists moved to
America to have a better life for their family, and make
money or practice their own religion.
If you lived during the colonial era,
what colonial region would you
have liked to live in? Why did you
choose that region?
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