Instructional Active
The Three Colonial Regions
You have learned about three regions of colonies. Move each tile into the correct box based on what you have
learned
had diverse settlers
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
had plantation economies
were settled by Puritans
became centers of trade
had a House of Burgesses
elected own governors

New England Colonies: were settled by Puritans

Middle Colonies: became centers of trade

Southern Colonies: had plantation economies, had a House of Burgesses, elected own governors.

Explanation:

The New England Colonies were formed by the Puritans, who could practice and follow religious freedom with strict beliefs. The Puritans separated themselves from the Church of England after seeing too many practices of the Catholic Church, even after getting divided from it. Puritans tried to reform the Church but could not, which led them to find a better place to follow their zeal. Their purpose of coming to America was to acquire religious freedom.

The location of the middle colonies along the coast region made them a trading centre. The middle colonies allowed settlers involved in the production of shipbuilding, textiles, furs (beaver pelt), iron ore and wood from forests.

The southern colonies economy, based on farming, because of the geographical conditions and climate. The successful of tobacco cultivation helped the settlers in converting into planters with large acres of land to cultivate and helped them in emerging in a new class in the colonial period and also helped in establishing the first colonial legislature as the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1619.

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