Compare colonists' "pursuits of happiness" in new england, the middle colonies, the backcountry, and the south. how did poorer colonists in each of these regions seek to maintain their autonomy from powerful landlords and institutions, and how did this effort shape the formation of regional identities?

The Puritans founded the northern colonies of New England. Puritanism evolved from the Protestant Reformation in England after King Henry VIII outlawed the Catholic Church in order to control religion in his country. Not all New England colonists were Puritans, but the Puritan religion was a major influence in the seventeenth-century New England way of life. Quakers began to populate the middle colonies around 1700, after the English crown had seized the colony of New Netherland, renamed it New York, and encouraged the creation of a Quaker colony led by William Penn.

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b: to eliminate competition from other farmers