Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Would I Want to Live in the New England, Middle, or Southern Colony?

If I were to choose to live in either the New England, Middle or Southern colony, I would definitely choose to live in the middle. The middle colonies were just so much more diverse and had many different types of cultures. They also had good soil for farming, which, if I lived back then, I probably would've done a lot of farming. Also in the middle colonies they had religious toleration and tolerated any kind of beliefs. The middle colonies also had a democracy, so people could directly be involved in government, instead of a monarchy. There were many great reasons why I would want to live in the middle colonies.
The Southern and New England colonies had many disadvantages compared to the middle colonies. First of all, they didn't have religious toleration like the middle colonies; in New England, it was if you're not Puritan, you're out. They were beaten, fined, banished and even killed for not having Puritan beliefs. Second, in the South and New England, you were still controlled by a monarchy, ruled by the King and Queen. In the middle colonies, you had your own democracy. Finally, in the South and New England, there wasn't a lot of diversity. In the South, most of the population was African-American and white, and in New England, it was mostly Puritan.
The middle colonies really had an advantage over the Southern and New England colonies.