Though the Northern & Southern colonies were close to each other, they held many similarities and differences. America was a place of dreams until immigrants began sailing to its’ shores. An influx of immigrants came to America in the 17th century were English, but there were also Dutch, Swedes and Germans in the middle region, a few French Huguenots in South Carolina and elsewhere, slaves from Africa, mainly in the South, and a scattering of Spaniards, Italians and Portuguese all through the coloni...