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The New England Colonies had various type of religions. Massachusetts had a strong population of Puritans. Rhode Island provided many types of religion for the people settling there. Many people in Connecticut were mainly Puritan. The Middle colonies New York and Pennsylvania provided various religions. Some of the religion found in Middle colonies were Quakers, Catholics, Lutherans, and Jews and a few others. The southern colonies, Maryland and Georgia had no majority religion, so they had various religion such as Protestants, Catholics, such as Jews, But Virginia population was mainly occupied by the Church of England. The New England Colonies were mainly Puritan and no other colonies were like that. There were also colonies such as Rhode …show more content…
Massachusetts included crops and livestock farming, lumbering, shops, and shipping. Rhode Island Farming, lumbering, shipbuilding, fishing, whaling, trade. Connecticut did farming, shipbuilding, fishing, and whaling. The Middle colonies such as New York did Fur trapping, lumbering, shipping, slave trade, merchants, tradesman, farming, iron mining. Pennsylvania included farming, merchants and tradesman, lumbering, and shipbuilding. The economy in the southern colonies pretty much the same. Maryland economy was farming and ranching, lumbering, shipping, fishing, iron mining. The Economy of each colonies is mainly based on their region and location. If they were in a place with nice soil and long growing seasons they would be a lot of farmers. And if they were near whales they would be whalers. The differences are the location and geography the colony was. And the similarities were based off something that you can do anywhere such as lumbering, farming, and shipbuilding. These are the similarities and differences. These people in the colonies showed modern society how to do things based on your located.

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