Comparing the Four Colonial Regions

Write the similarities and differences between the four colonial regions of British North America. Students will articulate what they know about two regions of British North America. Assignment: This assignment asks students to choose two of the four regions of British North America and begin to describe their similarities and differences between 1607 and 1720. In your response to this question, discuss ethnic diversity, social class structure, and religion. 1) For students to understand the difference in settlement patterns from region to region within British North America (BNA). 2) For students to understand that both groups were hoping to profit in one form or another from their interactions with the other groups: the Europeans through the discovery and removal of raw materials back to the mother country with an indigenous labor force; the Indians through trade, as allies against other Indian foes, and as a potential source of new technologies. 3) For students to understand the labor systems that emerged during the seventeenth century from the search for wealth in the colonies. 4) For students to understand the origins of African slavery in North America. This was a rational economic choice on the part of Virginia and Carolina planters who recognized a drop in the availability of English laborers to replenish their workforces. 5) For students to understand the social and economic differences between the southern colonies and the northern colonies as a result of staple crop production; slave societies versus societies with slaves.