Significant differences in religion, land tenure, relations with natives, political organization, as well as social organization distinguished the colonial experience of the colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The regions varied greatly in their practice of religion. "In the New England colonies the State Church had a powerful hold on the people like no other in America." (Elson). In the southern colonies the colonists followed the law of the Church of England. The pulse of religion did not pound with the same beat as in New England nor did the southern religious class ever acquire the prestige and power that quickly won it dominance in the puritan colonies of the north. Another feature of the south is few towns and almost no manufacturing." (18th Century America). One of the main differences between the colonies, is that while religious freedom did not exist in the New England colonies, the middle colonies had no single church or religion. …
