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Unformatted text preview: Education and culture. • Post Revolutionar y War the southern colonies focused on agriculture leading to mass slavery and eventually the Civil War. • Majority of Northern Colonist were generally opposed to slavery. There are many contributing factors to the different ways in which the northern and the southern colonies were developed. This matrix will provide a small glimpse into the political, religious and social factors that were there in the beginning and a short time after the colonies began to develop. The matrix above outlines some of the major influences that effected the development of the northern and southern colonies and shows how the colonies were different in beliefs and ideals. Politically the northern colonies were built on religion while in the south the colonies were developed mainly for economic reasons. These same political structures affected both religion and society through purpose and economics....
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- Spring '11
- Economics, Faith, Southern colonies, North Colonist