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A colony is a place that's settled by a group of people outside their home country and belongs to or is ruled by that home country. By the mid 1700s, England had set up 13 colonies along the east coast of America. These colonies all had some things

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in common, but they can be divided into three groups that each had a certain way of life. Now let's start in the northeast. Look and you'll see the new England colony, Connecticut Rhode island maine, new Hampshire and massachusetts. People came mainly from England for religious freedom

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to practice their religion the way they need. But Theresa family and try to feed, um, can prove to be difficult for a few reasons. The soil was rocking the climate code that can barely grow more food than their bellies could hold. So to make money, they

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wailed and fished and from all the number there, they built ships and since they needed to trade, boston became a port city, that's how they got paid a. In New England. They had town meetings in the meeting house. That's where people found seeding. The men discussed

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the issues of the town and the meeting houses where church services were down now, religion was a major inspiration and it was integrated in kids education Lastly for black people living in New England. Some live free, but they were treated different and even worse. Many women

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slaves when skilled jobs or house work for no pay. I've got something y'all will want to see follow me through the 13 colonies. New England, the middle and southern and each region shared Rachel discovers in. Some came for freedom of religion, some came to get money

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and make a living. Others were forced here to work as slave. The 13 colonies became 13 states. Now when the middle colonies, their new york, New jersey pennsylvania and Delaware. Yeah. And they were the most diverse home to german french irish dutch, the work work. And

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it hurts when we mentioned black, somewhere free somewhere, slave laborers breaking their backs and the climate was more mild. It was wild the wheat in many brain stockpile. Plus they had factories supplying the people with paper textiles and iron. And big cities like new york and

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Philly and merchants and artisans of all kinds really the Maryland, Virginia, north and south Carolina and Georgia. Southern colonies where you'll find the climate that's much warmer than up north and with rich soil. They grew crops of all sores. So of course in the southern colonies,

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plantations were the base of their economy. Large farms where cash crops were produced like cotton, rice and tobacco. When they used the labor of african slaves who were taken from their home countries enforced on the plantations. They were beating the treated as less than human, though

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the work slaves did kept the economy moving. Slavery was critical to plantation, but the harm it causes wasn't part of the equation that history cuts deep repeat. Before we escaped, 13 colonies became 13 states. I've got something y'all will want to see. Follow me through the

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13 colonies New England, the Middle and Southern, and each region shared Rachel discovers in. Some came for freedom of religion, some came to get money and make a living. Others were forced here to work as slave. The 13 colonies became 13 states.