Developments in  the northern English colonies

Maine,New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode island. All important English settlements of the north, but should we ask why? It all started at about 1600 when the Church of England forced the puritans out resulting in the puritans sailing to the "new world". The first settlement was Jamestown in Virginia, but some ships got set off course and landed below around the Massachusetts area to form Plymouth. To start all over the north farming was impossible, so the settlers resulted in befriends the Indians for some time. They taught them how to survive in the land and helped them progress through the starving times. There was some social issues brewing though. The puritans naturally were very strict about religion and when people such as Rodger Williams questioned their authority he was banished until he eventually formed the rogue islands also known as Rhode island. Many other significant figures came to RI as well such as Ann Hutchinson. In Connecticut the first real "constitution was developed and called the fundamental orders of Conn. This served as a way to govern the people. Maine was using as a trading outpost basically, it was significant to facilitating trade and harvesting raw materials like fish, and lumber. Since Massachusetts mainly made their living off of fish and ships since they're was not enough land to really have large scale farming projects.We could also say the north was the creation of the "family" Where women were more people of the home and bared many children while men worked hard forging their work ethic. We also saw the north fall victim to allot of the crowns rule, such as the molasses act, which limited what could come in and go out, like mercantilism. They also sent hundreds of soldiers in order to enforce the acts in Boston which really fed up the population which resulted in the roots of the soon to be american revolution.