Founding the 13 Colonies
England’s First Colonies Protestant Reformation Puritans wanted to ‘purify’ the Anglican Church by removing all remaining aspects of Catholicism Left England when King James refused (1603) Economic Changes Tenant farmers in England were evicted in favor of raising sheep Wool farmers formed joint-stock companies which had the ability to venture out into the world
England’s First Colonies The Chesapeake Colonies Jamestown (1607) Headrights Maryland (1632) Proprietary Colony
Pilgrims and Puritans Plymouth Colony (1620) Massachusetts Bay Colony (1630) John Winthrop Rhode Island 1636 Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson Joined in 1644
Pilgrims and Puritans Connecticut New Hampshire (1677) Maine Thomas Hooker (1636) New Hampshire (1677) Captain John Mason Maine Sir Fernando Gorges Purchased by Massachusetts
New Colonies New York Pennsylvania and Delaware 1609 Dutch colony of New Amsterdam 1664 Charles II takes from Dutch Also took New Jersey Pennsylvania and Delaware 1681 Charles II grants Pennsylvania to William Penn to settle a debt 1682 Penn buys more land to the south which becomes Deleware
New Colonies The Carolinas The Georgia Experiment 1663 Charles II takes land and names it Carolina Two distinct regions, scattered population to the North, harbors and good farming land to the south The Georgia Experiment 1720s refuge for ‘worthy poor’ 1732 James Oglethorpe founded the colony Strict rules until the 1740s