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* Pennsylvania
* Maryland was established by Lord Baltimore as a safe colony for English Catholics. The main city is Baltimore.
* Tobacco farmers also had to grow food crops and livestock so they could be independent.
* They sent missionaries and soldiers to set up missions to convert the Native Americans.
* William Penn founded it as a Quaker colony and those were their ideals
* They came voluntarily to start a new life or for religious freedom. * They were criminals or political prisoners from England and Scotland who could earn their release if they worked for 7 years. * They were slaves brought from Africa. * They were indentured servants who worked without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for their trip to the new world.
* Pennsylvania’s main town was Philadelphia, designed by William Penn.
* North Carolina = small family farms, no port * cash crop = tobacco * poor colony * South Carolina = Charleston (excellent port) * cash crops = indigo and rice * enslaved Africans * rich colony
* It was established in order to provide the poor and debtors a fresh start and as a military barrier between the Spanish in Florida and the rich colony of South Carolina.
* They wanted the money gained from fishing and fur trading because it was profitable. Therefore, they were more respectful of Native American ways because they needed them as guides and allies.
* South Carolina takes control over its own territory because they want more say in the government.
* The theory that states that, when a nation’s trade grows, its gold reserves increase, it controls more territory and the nation becomes more powerful.
* Economic Reasons: Gold, Natural resources, Trade * Religious (God) – Spread Christianity * (Glory) Competition for new land (empire) and belief in the superiority of their people.
* **All adult male church members who also owned property could vote.
* Jamestown was the first settlement and the cash crop that saved the Virginia colony was tobacco.
* These were the trade routes that passed manufactured items from Europe to the Americas and Africa, Slaves from Africa to the Americas, and raw materials from the Americas to Europe.
* The boundary line set up between PA and MD who were in a fight over the border between their two states.
* Massachusetts * Connecticut * Rhode Island * New Hampshire
* France * Spain * Portugal * Britain/England/United Kingdom * The Netherlands/Dutch
* They got thrown out of MA for wanting to practice religion their way.
* Maryland * Virginia * North Carolina * South Carolina * Georgia
* It was a rich Dutch colony. The British wanted it for shipping and trade and so they sent the navy to attack it. The Dutch governor gave up to save his people-and their stuff. * The British king gave it to his brother, the Duke of York, who changed the name.
* New York * New Jersey * Pennsylvania * Delaware
* During the Great Migration in the 1630s, more than 15,000 Puritans came to Massachusetts to escape religious persecution and economic difficulties in England.
* The Atlantic Ocean
* The southern part of New York became New Jersey. The Duke of York gave it to two of his friends. The friends gave it back because it wasn’t making money because it didn’t have a port.
* They got blown off course and ended up in Plymouth, MA instead of Virginia so they made the first representative government, the Mayflower Compact.
* From Europe to America- grains, Metal tools, horses, cattle, sheep, Diseases like Smallpox and the flu. * From America to Europe- corn, potatoes, tomatoes, chili peppers, chocolate and tobacco * From Africa to Americas- Slaves