Module3 lesson1masteryassignment1
- 1. Module 3 Assignment 1 BY: Faye Moore
- 2. New England Colonies • Rhode Island • Connecticut • Massachusetts • New Hampshire
- 3. New England Colonies • Shipbuilding was important because of the large easy to navigate ports • Pilgrims and puritans settled here mostly for religious freedom • Largely subsistence farming and fishing communities
- 4. Middle Colonies • Delaware • Pennsylvania • New York • New Jersey
- 5. Middle Colonies • This is where most people came to practice their own religion(Quakers) • Most socially, politically, and economically diverse • Fertile soil and religious promise
- 6. Southern Colonies • Maryland • Virginia • North Carolina • South Carolina • Georgia
- 7. Southern Colonies • Main reason to moving here was to make more money • Almost entirely agricultural • Plantations grew cash crops
- 8. Effects of Triangular Trade • One of the consequences of the triangular trade was that New England had a lot of rum-making distilleries because that’s what they contributed also they motivated other countries to start shipbuilding • Racism was born • White superiority • Slave profits created diverse enterprise • The Americas was making so much money that they eventually started to govern themselves
- 9. Effects of The Great Awakening • People are now not afraid to confront religious authority • If you don’t like something about a religion then you can branch off and start your own • Colonists realized that political power does not reside with English monarch but in self governance • Prepared America for war of independence
- 10. Effects of the Enlightenment • Leaders of the revolution took a lot of ideas from Enlightenment thinkers • Locke’s concept of natural rights inspired some rights in America • Also the fact that not necessarily a king has to rule and anybody can rule was adapted from the enlightenment • The concept of checks and balances also came from the Enlightenment