Virginia:
Massachusetts:
New Hampshire:
Maryland:
Connecticut:
Delaware:
North Carolina:
South Carolina:
New Jersey:
New York:
Pennsylvania:
Georgia:
- The hot & humid summers caused diseases to spread much faster, such as malaria & yellow fever.
- Only wealthy families could afford to educate their children
- Weak work ethic
Massachusetts:
- Short farming seasons (short summers, long winters)
- Rocky & poor soil that was unsuitable for crops
- Harsh, extreme winters - hard to survive
- No religious tolerance for any other forms of Christianity in Massachusetts Bay, only Puritans were accepted, even though they were persecuted in England
- Government was too strict / had too much power
- Lots of religious persecution
- Only a minority of the population got a vote in the general court
- Lots of conflicts because the population got too large and people wouldn’t agree on ideas, so the residents spread out and joined different colonies
New Hampshire:
- Short farming seasons (short summers, long winters)
- Rocky & poor soil that was unsuitable for crops
- Strict government
- Men and women didn't have equal rights, ex: Anne Hutchinson
Maryland:
- Diseases spread much faster, such as malaria and yellow fever
- The influx in immigration caused people to face frequent battles with malaria & typhoid
- Protestants swept the Catholics out of the legislature within a decade after the Maryland Acts of Toleration had been passed by the House of Delegates, causing religious strife
- Religious strife between Catholics & Protestants
- Although Baltimore tolerated all Christian sects in his province, the Protestants flooded out the Catholics of Maryland by immigration from Virginia
- No religious freedom for Jews
- Only wealthy families could afford to educate their children
Connecticut:
- Harsh winters & poor / rocky soil (short farming seasons)
- Farming was difficult for crops such as wheat due to poor soil (people had to remove large chunks of rocks to settle in certain areas)
- Weak governor
- There wasn't religious freedom in the areas inhabited by the Puritans
- Residents were forced to abide by laws based on scripture (blue laws); these laws could condemn any citizen who was convicted of blaspheming the name of God to death, and included death penalty for crimes that seem minor by modern standards.
Delaware:
- Only wealthy families could afford to educate their children
- Had a lot of swampland, leading to the spread of diseases
North Carolina:
- Diseases spread much faster, such as malaria & yellow fever
- Only wealthy families could afford to educate their children
South Carolina:
- Diseases spread much faster, such as malaria & yellow fever
- Only wealthy families could afford to educate their children
New Jersey:
- Only wealthy families could afford to educate their children
New York:
- Limited self government
- Under Dutch rule, they had suffered from ethnic tension
- Political instability under Dutch rule
- Residents suffered from protracted Indian warfare (which caused immigration to slow down) under Dutch rule
- Only wealthy families could afford to educate their children
Pennsylvania:
- Only wealthy families could afford to educate their children
- Conflicts with the Native Americans
Georgia:
- Diseases spread much faster, such as malaria & yellow fever
- The survival rayes for such diseases were low
- The settlers had no control of their own government (it was entirely governed by the trustees)
- The abundance of mountains made farming in certain areas difficult
- Afrer becoming a royal colony in 1752, all freemen were given the right to vote as long as they weren’t Roman Catholics
- Only wealthy families could afford to educate their children