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England Colonies:

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English, Puritans, and Farmers, Merchants, boat building, fishing and limited farming. Very strict religion. Large families, free blacks and could own land and trained. Schooling for boys and girls (Bible reading). Harvard here. Government involved town meetings, could speak out, voting and self-government.

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Middle

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.Quakers, Dutch, French, Germans, Scot-Irish; Diversity! Farming, mining and trading. Quakers, Catholics, Jews, protestants’ TOLERANCE! Farming and some manufacturing. Fewer slaves, Quakers are against slavery. Fewer schools, started bu religious groups, PRINCETON! Mixture of town meetings and County governments.

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Southern

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