1. A charter is a document that gave colonies the legal rights to exist.
A legal document granting rights

2. Joint Stock Company
A business where different stocks can be bought and owned by shareholders.
First corporations
Seal of the King

3. Content Vocab: Proprietor
The owner of a business
A “proprietor colony” was granted by British government and had self-rule
Syn: owner, possessor

4. The Thirteen Colonies

5. Three reasons the Colonies were settled
Political
Religious
Economic reasons
The colonies earliest and largest cities developed along the coast line because of the good harbors available

6. The Colonies
Each colony was unique in it’s characteristics. However, they are grouped together based on location, reasons they were founded, and what types of industries they had.
New England Colonies
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Middle Colonies
Delaware
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Southern Colonies
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia

7. Geography of the Colonies

8. New England Colonies Geography Economic Social Political Family farms
Family farms
Church
Mayflower Compact
Trade
Family life
Town meetings
Fishing
Education
Public courts
Merchants
Rights for women
Self government
Shipbuilding
Orders of Connecticut

9. Middle Colonies
Fur trade
Women in home
Self government
Trade
Diverse settlers
Crops
Religious tolerance
Women own businesses
Some slaves

10. Religious Toleration Act
Southern Colonies
Cash crops
slaves
Religious Toleration Act
Plantations
Religious tolerance
House Of Burgesses
Agriculture
Slave labor
representative Government
Slaves
Indentured Servants
Labor Shortage

11. New England Colonies
The New England colonies had small farms and ship building.
Decisions were made in Town hall meetings where each member had a say in outcome.

12. Middle Colonies
The Middle colonies had some farming and later on factories.

13. Southern Colonies
Were agricultural with large plantations, originally producing tobacco but later on growing cotton.
Slaves worked on the plantations

14. Indentured Servants DO not copy
Indentured Servants DO not copy. Please summarize term in your notes after discussion
½ of 2/3rds of all immigrants to Colonial America arrived as indentured servants.
Employers paid for journey, room, and board
Labor shortages in America and joblessness in Europe made this an attractive job.
Criminals could become servants instead of dead
People could serve off their debts in the colonies
*** At times, as many as 75% of the population of some colonies were under terms of indenture.

15. Indentured servants continued
Due to poor living conditions, hard labor, and difficulties adjusting to new climates and native diseases, many servants did not live to see their freedom
Since they often spoke English and were white, runaway servants were more difficult to recapture than black slaves.
I.S. often fled and started life in different colony
I.S. replaced by slavery