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Summarize the distinct characteristics of each colonial region in the settlement
and development of British North America, including religious, social, political, and economic
differences.

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New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies 

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New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies 

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The geography of the New England colonies supported what industry?

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The geography of the New England colonies supported what industry?

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Fishing

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1) Puritan- A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay
2) Quakers- English dissenters who broke from Church of England, preach a doctrine of pacifism, inner divinity, and social equity, under William Penn they founded Pennsylvania
3) Townshend Acts- A tax that the British Parliament passed in 1767 that was placed on leads, glass, paint and tea
4) Virginia House of Burgesses- The first representative assembly in the new world. Created due to distance between Great Britain and the colonies
5) Plantation System-
Agricultural system in the South which relied on slave labor to work the large farms and estates