![]() Representative governments flourished in the English colonies. Image from Wikipedia Colonial Governments The remaining New England colonies provided timber□, beaver, shipbuilding, and Cod for the mother country□. The middle colonies of New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey focused on wheat production and trade. Virginia and Maryland provided tobacco, South Carolina and Georgia provided rice and indigo, and North Carolina harvested tar and pitch. The southern colonies such as Jamestown (also known as a Chesapeake colony) focused primarily on cash crops. Unfortunately, when England ran into monetary issues, they enforced the navigation acts, thereby ending salutary neglect and causing problems in the relationship with the colonies. England enforced the system with navigation acts however, much of the time England allowed the colonies a bit of freedom known as salutary neglect. The economic system of mercantilism set the stage for the colonies to become sources of resources as well as a market for England. The year 1607 represents the creation of England’s oldest permanent colony of Jamestown and 1754 designates the end of the colonial period as a result of the beginning of the Seven Years War. The years of Period two are significant as well. Some of the most important aspects of the colonial period are the establishment of colonial economies, government structures, religious attributes, and the social make-up of the three regions (New England, Middle, and Southern colonies). ![]() This unit will help us better understand the origins of life in early America. These origins include motives for colonial settlement, the evolution of government, their economies, religions and culture. A guiding question is: How did both Europeans and Americans influence these origins?ĭuring this time period, the British established their thirteen colonies in the new world. Their competition led to both alliances and conflicts between the colonists and the Native Americans living in America. Both the Europeans and Americans had to decide how they were going to be settled and governed. ![]() Exploring and obtaining new colonies in the Americas were a big part of this competition. Moving on to 1607 - 1754: Contextualizing the Unitīritain, Spain, France, and the Netherlands were all competing against each other for land, riches and power in the world between c. ![]()
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