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Because of their religious and ethnic diversity, the Middle Colonies were in a near constant state of conflict and turmoil.
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Over half of the settlers in the southern colonies in the seventeenth century came to English North America as indenturedservants.
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By 1730, the majority of South Carolina's population was black.
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While the production of cash crops was crucial to the southern colonies' prosperity, they nevertheless developed a quite diversified economy.
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Southern whites generally exaggerated the danger of slave rebellion in English North America.
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Unlike the Puritan church in New England, the Anglican church never became a powerful force in southern colonial life.
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New England households were usually extended; aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents often lived in the same house as a man, his wife, and his children.
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Throughout most of the seventeenth century, at least with respect to local issues, England's North American colonies were largely left to govern themselves.
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The Salem witchcraft episode in the 1690s restored the public's respect for Puritan ministers throughout New England.
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Yale University was the first institution of higher education in English North America.
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As in the South, colonial New England's economic prosperity depended on growing surplus cash crops for export.
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By 1760, all the Middle Colonies had popularly elected representative assemblies, for which most adult white males could vote.
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As in New England and the southern colonies, voters in the Middle Colonies usually deferred to the leadership of the landed gentry.
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The Paxton Boys were Scotch-Irish frontiersmen who marched on Philadelphia to try to gain more representation in the Pennsylvania assembly.
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