The Colonies

The Colonies

Northern Colonies

Domestic duties

Ran household

Religious

Puritans

Challenged By

Roger Williams

Anne Hutchinson

Fishing

Trade

Unsuitable for crops

Middle Colonies

By Truman Walker

Ran businesses

Grocery Stores

Clothing

Housewives

Religious Diversity

Ethnically Diverse

Mercantilism

Industry

Fertile Soil

Rivers

Southern Colonies

Role of Women

Less Women than men

More bachelors

Lower birth rate

Society

Cities

Urban Professional Class

Lawyers and financiers

Social Ladder

Great Planters at top

e.g. Washington, Lee

Small Farmers

Indentured servants

Landless whites

Slaves

Economy

Environment was good for tobacco

Need for labor

African slave trade

Slave codes

Middle passage

Indentured Servants

Freedom dues

Head-right system

Very Profitable

Regional Differences

Water was used for transportation

Seaports