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Colonial Society - Coggle Diagram
Colonial Society
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Culture
Wealthy
Mainly landowners, plantation owners, merchants
Built large houses, had portraits painted, educated sons in British and American schools
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80% of free males were farmers, often tilling their own land
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Abundance of land and underrepresntation of nobility and poor allowed most people to work their own land; hence considered a middle-class world
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South Colonies
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland
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New England Colonies
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Conneticut, Rhode Island
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Middle Colonies
New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
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Religious tolerance varied; strict in Pennsylvania, lenient in New York
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