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Understanding the English Colonies in America: Origins, Economies, and Governance

Chapter 3 explores the English colonies in America, detailing their beginnings as distant settlements driven by the desire for wealth, religious freedom, and new opportunities. It highlights the varied reasons Europeans sought to establish colonies, such as natural resources and markets for goods. The chapter categorizes the colonies into New England, Middle, and Southern regions, each with distinct economies and social structures. Governance is also addressed, focusing on the role of charters, elected assemblies, and the limited voting rights that shaped colonial life.

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Understanding the English Colonies in America: Origins, Economies, and Governance

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  1. Chapter 3 The English Colonies in America

  2. What is a colony? • a settlement begun by people from a distant country

  3. Reasons Europeans wanted colonies • wealth & power • natural resources • market for goods made in home country • place to send unwanted people

  4. Reasons people wanted to leave Europe • religious freedom • better life • new opportunities

  5. Who were forced to go? • slaves from Africa • criminals • indentured servants

  6. New England Colonies • MA, RI, CT, NH • English settlers • came for religious freedom • economy: small farms, lumbering, fishing, shipbuilding, trade • farming difficult

  7. Middle Colonies • NY, PA, NJ, DE • economy: farming, lumbering, shipbuilding • came from many countries • came for many reasons

  8. Southern Colonies • MD, VA, NC, SC, GA • good soil & climate • grew cash crops • rich had plantations • used indentured servants and slaves

  9. Cash Crops

  10. Colonial Government • King gave colony a charter • most colonies had an elected assembly to make laws • most had a governor • some had councils • MA had town meetings • limited voting rights

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