Northern Colonies Characteristics

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In The Northern (New England) colonies, immigration was based on two things, because of there being both pilgrims and puritans; fifty percent pilgrims, and fifty percent puritans. The pilgrims wanted to escape religious persecution, and the puritans wanted to purify the Church of England. Because of the fact that the pilgrims were separating from the Church of England, this meant that they did not want to support them economically or in battle. On the other hand, the puritans wanted to purify the church and were not totally against the church of england. Therefore the puritans may fight for the the crown with some exception of getting a say in purifying the church.

There were many economic characteristics unique to the north that can strongly benefit war effort. In The Northern colonies, there was lots of shipbuilding which could be as a benefit to war effort for transport and ship battles. There were lots of
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Villages and churches were the center of life. The Civic life included town meetings and gatherings. although the Social life involved churches, none of the churches represented the Church of England. They had been separating from the Church of England. Therefor, this could influence this being used to benefit the war effort in that they will not fight for the king, because the whole reason of colonizing was to get away from him and get him out of their Social/Political lives. Supporting this, the Social/Political lives also included religious reformers and separatists(Separated from the Church of England). On The other hand we have the puritans. as we can see over time, the puritans were more on the Church of England’s side, were as the pilgrims were totally against the church. Pilgrims separated, puritans purified. This can be summed up by saying that in the Social/Political aspects of things, puritans would be the ones supporting the king, not the