Part II - Colonies Quiz

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Recommended: Make three points of comparison between the southern and new england way of life

Society is a word that can mean so many different things, and it can involve so many different people. Like today, all of the colonies were contained of many different people, or they were diverse. Although those people may not have been from that many divergent areas, that doesn’t mean that they would not run a whole group of humankind in a whole contrastive way. This can be verified just by reading about the New England colonies. Varying areas in New England (Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony-Boston, Providence, Connecticut, and New Hampshire) all took their ways of life, or culture, in a completely discrete fashion.
Although I mentioned earlier that New England could be considered diverse, that is only in a few scenarios. Behind all of that is a community full of indistinguishable humans beings.
Religion was huge to the people of New England. One group based in a sector of the colony was Massachusetts Bay Colony-Boston, or MBC. These individuals were enormously strict about their religion, Puritan, which was created to “purify” the Anglican religion or remove the Catholic influence. Anglican was the official language of England at the time and this religion was a major reason why so many fled from the country.
As for the other bodies of civilization summoned into the New England region, they were not only religiously tolerant but were forgiving of simple mistakes that the villagers would make.
The majority of the population living in this distinct place, who settled on today’s Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire, lived off of the Puritan authoritative laws. New people were always arriving at the ports of these peculiar settlement areas because of their surplus of natural resources (plants, fish, etc...

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...e colonies. Unlike those two ‘provinces,’ the South, covering Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, and North and South Carolina, was made up of mostly Anglicans. The king moved the settlers to this land for money, just like he did for the settlers of the Middle colonies. Since Anglican was the official language of England, as I said earlier, this would be the reason it turned out that way.
If you compare the South to the other groups of civilization in America, other than the Native Americans, you could say that they were far from what society is like today, just like the other colonies were.
Looking back at all of the three colony groups, we can conclude that the New England colony was full of psycho, religious maniacs, the Middle consisted of people from all over the place, and the South was made up of slaves and upper class members who would not get their hands dirty.

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