Middle Colonies: Bread Basket, Had a colony founded by William Penn, Quakers , Mostly used town meetings for local politics , Focused on growing grains , Barley, wheat, rye , Cattle Farms , Pretty good soil but not good enough for massive cash crops , Moderate climate, Most diverse religiously and socially, Religious schools and small public schools, Most diverse group of people, Southern Colonies: Plantations , Most towns or cities built along waterways, Most slaves , Cash Crops, Tobacco, Rice , and Indigo , Richest part, First legislative government in the colonies the House of Burgesses , Had a colony founded for Catholics, Best soil , Took most influences from the English , Heavily invested and reliant on the Slave Trade, Long growing seasons , Jamestown 1607, New England Colonies: Pilgrims and Puritans, First Constitution in the Colonies Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Mayflower Compact First push for Representative Government, Fishing, Lumber, Transatlantic Trading & Slave Trading, Rocky bad soil, Long Winters, Least amount of slaves in the colonies, Dominated by Churches and Church Assemblies , Whaling, Bigger families , Smaller farms , In the North Eastern part of the US, Plymouth 1620,

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