Colonial Differences Essay

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Colonial Differences America has always been a land of great diversity. This dates back to the first English settlements in North America. In the beginning, the colonies were divided up into three distinct areas: northern colonies, middle colonies, and southern colonies. Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island comprised the northern colonies; New York, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania made up the middle colonies; and Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia composed the southern colonies. The colonial areas had countless similarities and differences when it came to religion, politics, economics, and social issues which account for the way the world is currently. All of these colonies each relate to locations that we as a society know of today. The northern colonies were made up of what we identify as today, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. At one time, the Northern colonies were made of different provinces. Religion played a major role in these colonies, their government was based on religious views. The northern colonies were founded by Puritans thus making the northern colonies predominantly Puritan. Not all of the northern colonies were Puritan; some of them were Catholic. (There were other religions but these were the prominent ones). The southern colonies consisted of the states we distinguish now as, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia. Unlike the northern colonies, religion did not play a major role in these colonies. The religion in the southern colonies was generally an Anglican and Baptists with a mixture of other religions. The four colonies of the Middle Colonies are Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York (and Vermont), and New Jersey. The middle colonies had a variety of diverse religions within the colonies. These colonies all differed from religion but in a sense
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