In chapter three the most important concepts were how tobacco achieved stability in the Chesapeake society, what the New England way was, how agriculture shaped slavery, diversity in the middle colonies, and how the French and Spanish made a 17th century. Tobacco in the Chesapeake society was a huge cash crop to the  English and really reversed their instability. The English seized large amounts of native Americans so they could grow tobacco and this cash crop really set the Chesapeake apart from New England. The  New England way was basically a society solely based on religion. New England had joined the Chesapeake region and puritans flooded the area in the " Great Migration " making it hard for other religions to stay in the region. Puritanism had shaped the identity of the New England region. As slavery grew, a huge factor was agriculture. In this section the two major areas that were shaped by slavery were the Caribbean and southern Carolina. The Caribbean  was extremely dependent on sugar cane and they had a harsh form of plantation slavery where as southern Carolina was extremely depended on rice. Carolina also had a harsh system of slavery and actually was the only mainland colony to have a black majority in population. In the Dutch new Netherlands colony, they had a huge history of not only religious, but ethnic diversity. The Dutch and he Swedish established little outposts in between the Chesapeake and New England and the Dutch took over new Sweden. Yet in return England took over new Netherlands. All these tasks formed the middle colonies. Finally, the French empire became a stretched community from the Rockies to the Appalachians and depended greatly on trade. Since he French depended so much on trade they had an extremely good relationship with the Native Americans. Now as for the Spanish they conquered the pueblo revolt the Spanish tried to establish their frontiers in Texas and Florida but only a few settled in each area.