englsih settlement
...her. Southern colonies lived much different lives then those of the lives of the middle and New England colonies. All Southern colonies-except for Georgia- were for slavery and saw nothing wrong in the act of owning people. People who lived in the southern colonies were mainly all big time farmers who had medium to big size plantations. Very few towns were built in the southern colonies because everyone was so spread out because of their huge plantations. Women were treated well in the south, since in the south there wasn’t much else a source of profit except for owning plantations and land was everything to them. So the southern colonies made a law stating that when women married they did not lose control of their land. This protected the women unlike women in the middle and New England colonies who lost their land once they married. Life in the south varied a lot compared to life in the Middle Colonies. Middle colonies were composed of-New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode island, and New Jersey. These colonies were set from Leaders of other colonies that wanted to separate from their former colonies. Pennsylvania was set up for the Quakers and like Rhode Island and all of other Middle colonies, it was very lenient on its religious laws as long as people were Jewish or atheist. A colony like New York was an easy colony for Immigrants to settle into because it was already ethnically diverse. All middle colonies had much better climates then those of the southern and New England colonies. Towns developed easily and schools and churches popped up all across the colonies. Middle colonies were politically much more democratic then the southern and New England colonies and were for a democracy. Life in New England was either for two sole reasons. One was for profit, which Virginia was set up for, and the other reason was for religious freedom, which Massachusetts Virginia, one of the New England colonies, was money filled, aristo...