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5b colonial regions
Transcript of 5b colonial regions
USI.5b: Colonial RegionsUSI.5b: Colonial Regions
Social Studies Instructional SpecialistPortsmouth Public Schools
Essential KnowledgeEssential KnowledgeLife in the colonies reflected the
geographical features of the settlements.
Economic specialization and interdependence existed in the production of goods and services in the colonies.
Essential QuestionsEssential QuestionsHow did climate and geographic
features and other available resources distinguish the three regions from each other?
How did people use the natural resources of their region to earn a living?
What are the benefits of specialization and trade?
How did political and social life evolve in each of the three regions?
Economic TermsEconomic TermsResources: natural, capital, humanSpecialization: focusing on one or
more productsInterdependence: two or more
people depending on each other for goods and services.
Specialization made the colonies interdependent.
Colonial RegionsColonial RegionsThe three colonial
regions are:New England (New
Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut)
Middle/Mid-Atlantic (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware)
Southern (Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia)
New England: ResourcesNew England: ResourcesNatural
resources: timber, fish, deep harbors
New England: ResourcesNew England: ResourcesHuman
resources: skilled craftsmen, shopkeepers, shipbuilders
Candle maker
New England: Geography New England: Geography and Climateand Climate
Appalachian Mountains, Boston Harbor, hilly terrain, rocky soil, jagged coastline.
Moderate summers, cold winters
New England: Geography New England: Geography and Climateand Climate
Boston Harbor
New England: Geography New England: Geography and Climateand Climate
New England: New England: SpecializationSpecializationFishing,
shipbuilding, industry, naval supplies
What items would be needed to supplyships? (Food, weapons, ammunition,clothing, soap, etc. These items arepart of the naval supplies industry.)
New England: New England: SpecializationSpecialization
New England: Examples of New England: Examples of InterdependenceInterdependenceNew England
depended on the Southern colonies for raw materials such as cotton and on the Middle Colonies for grain and livestock.
New England: Social/Political New England: Social/Political and Civic Lifeand Civic Life
Social/Political: Village and church as the center of life. Religious reformers and separatists.
Civic Life: Town meetings
New England: Social/Political New England: Social/Political and Civic Lifeand Civic Life
In the New England communities, if you did not belong to the village church, you were excluded from town meetings and votes. Many times the leader of the church led the village.
Town hall
Church
Mid Atlantic: ResourcesMid Atlantic: ResourcesNatural
resources: rich farmlands, rivers.
Mid Atlantic: ResourcesMid Atlantic: ResourcesHuman
resources: unskilled and skilled workers, fishermen.
Mid Atlantic: Geography and Mid Atlantic: Geography and ClimateClimateAppalachian
Mountains, coastal lowlands, harbors and bays, wide and deep rivers.
Mild winters and moderate climate.
Mid Atlantic: Mid Atlantic: Specialization Specialization
Livestock, grain, fish.
Mid Atlantic: Examples of Mid Atlantic: Examples of InterdependenceInterdependenceThe Mid Atlantic
colonies traded with both New England and Southern colonies to get the products they did not produce.
Mid Atlantic: Social/Political Mid Atlantic: Social/Political and Civic Lifeand Civic Life
Social/Political: villages and cities varied; diverse lifestyles, diverse religions.
Civic Life: Market towns
Market town
South: ResourcesSouth: ResourcesNatural
resources: fertile land, rivers, harbors.
South: ResourcesSouth: ResourcesHuman
resources: farmers, enslaved African Americans
South: SpecializationSouth: SpecializationTobacco, cotton, indigo, wood
products.
Indigo Cotton
South: SpecializationSouth: Specialization
Tobacco Wood products
South: Examples of South: Examples of InterdependenceInterdependenceThe Southern
colonies depended on the New England colonies for manufactured goods, including tools and equipment.
South: Social/Political and South: Social/Political and Civic LifeCivic Life
Social/Political: Plantations, slavery, mansions, indentured servants, few cities, few schools, Church of England.
Civic Life: counties