THE NORTH
Those Cantankerous Yanks

New England was made up of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Fishing, whaling, and timber forests for shipbuilding created bustling seaports that distributed trade goods throughout the world. The center of business was Boston, the city that would become the birthplace of The Revolution!

THE MIDDLE COLONIES
Thriving Laborers and Worldly City Folk

New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware hosted a rolling landscape of grain fields and iron mines, and these resources created a thriving middle class. The cities of New York and Philadelphia were crammed with diverse nationalities that created the first steps toward a unique level of tolerance in America.

THE SOUTH
Independent Farmers, Arrogant Aristocrats and Lowly Slaves

Primarily small farmers and tradesmen lived in Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia, yet 75 percent of the wealth was owned by a small group of grand plantation owners. Their vast estates depended on African slaves to work the fields of tobacco and rice. Southerners were fiercely protective of their rights and their property.