Colonial Regions

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Fertile Land & Long Growing Season: Plantation System

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Southern Colonies

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"Bread Basket"

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Middle Colonies

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Cold Winters; Think Rocky Soil

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New Engalnd

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Diverse Groups of People; Quakers: first abolitionists

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Middle Colonies

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Whaling/Fishing: New England, Middle Colonies, Southern Colonies

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New England

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Cash crops: Tobacco, Indigo and Rice

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Southern Colonies

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Shipbuilding/Trading: New England, Middle Colonies, Southern Colonies

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New England

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First successful English settlement in the New World, 1607. Set up as a joint-stock company, Virginia House of Burgesses

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Jamestown

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Colonial region that focused on shipping and manufacturing

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New England Colonies (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island)

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Colonial region focused on cash crops like cotton and tobacco; slavery became much more important in the southern colonies than any other colonial region.

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Southern Colonies (Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia)