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Differences and similarities | 1650 | 1776 | Religious aspects | In the north, church membership was key to be accepted into the colony. The church controlled the laws and was the most acknowledge in the colony. However, in the south, instead of the church member being the boss, land owners were the dominant party. These land owners were the wealthiest and had control over the laws. A marked difference between the different colonies was the religious aspect. This was because in these territories settled various religious denominations in England who were persecuted in their homeland. Because of this, you cannot say that religious beliefs throughout the colonies were uniform. | After European settlement, religious history began more than …show more content…
Both lands had royal governors who controlled and riled. They both had the law that enforced the power of the first. This meant that the first child inherited everything from their parents. The north and the south also had legislatures that had the power to create, amend, and ratify the laws. Both structures of each of the governments were politically similar; therefore although on opposite sides, The south and the north still had similarities between them. Finally, I note that all the colonies shared the tradition of representative government. The English monarch complied with the rules of electing most colonial representatives, but they all should rule together with an elected assembly. The vote could exercise only the white male landowners, however most white men had property enough to vote.The constitution of the English colonies was essentially homogeneous. A governor represented the crown and gathered round him a group of counselors. Before him, the colonists were represented by an elected parliament based on a limited suffrage based on property. Constitutional basis was considered the axiom that anything not expressly belong somebody was owned by the king, theoretically, then, all the colonies. Accordingly the king could govern the colonies separately or assign them to individuals or companies. The only exception was Rhode Island and …show more content…
The north had small farms the south had larger ones called plantations. The main trade item in the north was lumber. The south had less raw materials then the north and mostly traded cotton. The cotton crop was so important to the southern colonies, it was nickname King cotton. At that time, the north wa starting to become more industrialized. The differences between the two sides were that the north had more raw materials for trade than the south, but the south had larger farms and work areas.The crop of tobacco was in both sides. They both supported the use of indentured servants, people who worked their debt off with labor work for land owners for seven years | The economic history of the United States has its roots in European colonization in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Marginal colonial economies grew into 13 small, independent farming economies, which joined together in 1776 to form the United States of America. In 230 years the United States grew to a huge, integrated, industrialized economy that makes up nearly a quarter of the world economy. The main causes were a large unified market, a supportive political-legal system, vast areas of highly productive farmlands, vast natural resources (especially timber, coal, iron, and oil), and an entrepreneurial spirit and commitment to investing in material and human capital. The economy has maintained high wages,

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