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Off to Sea to See Colonial America
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Virginia 1607: Jamestown Wanted Gold and an English outpost
: Joint Stock Company : Royal Company
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Here It Is
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People of VA John Smith John Rolfe Thomas Dale
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Mel He Isn’t
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Crop of VA Tobacco
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Cash Crop
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Massachusetts 1620 in Plymouth 1629 in Bay Colony
Both lasted until 1691 Escape religious persecution. Make Puritan commonwealth
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Home of the Pilgrims
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Power Struggle Mayflower Compact 1620-1621 Joint-Stock: 1621-1691
Royal:
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You’re Fired!
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Power Continued Colonies merged in 1691 Royal colony from 1691-1776
Leaders were John Bradford and John Winthrop
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Not Columbus!!!
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Working Hard Fishing, lumber, shipbuilding, triangular trade, rum, and whaling.
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Oh Crap!!!!!
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New Hampshire Founded 1623 Exeter in 1638
Profit from trade and fishing Escape religious persecution
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Not Old, New!!!
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Power Structure Proprietary 1622-1641 Joint-Stock 1641-1679
Royal Joint-Stock was part of Massachusetts Bay
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Not That King!!!
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Leaders Benning Wentworth John Wentworth John Wheelright
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That’s a Leader!!!!
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Industry Trade and Fishing
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What a Whopper!!!
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New York Founded 1624 Founders wanted to expand and to trade
First of the middle colonies
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Map
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Power Colony of Dutch West India Co 1624-1664 Proprietary 1664-1685
Royal
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That’s Power!
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Leaders Peter Stuyvesant James, Duke of York Richard Nicolls
Thomas Dongan
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Not John Wayne
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Industry Wheat Milling Lumber Furs Sugar refining
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Industry Continued Distilling Shipbuilding Trade
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Colony Never Sleeps
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New Jersey Founded 1630 Expansion Trading Post
Refuge for Quakers from England
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Oatmeal Anyone?
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Power Colony of Dutch West India Co. 1630-1664 Proprietary 1664-1702
Royal
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Notice This?
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Leaders John Berkeley John Carteret
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The Earl
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Industry Trade Farming
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Big Green Tractor
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Maryland Founded 1632 Establish a Catholic settlement
Escape religious persecution
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Fear The Turtle
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Leaders Cecilius Calvert Also known as Lord Baltimore
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The Lord’s Bird
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Power Proprietary Royal Proprietary
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Don’t Mess with Maryland
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Industry Tobacco
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Tobacco? Really?
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Connecticut Founded 1634 Established a Puritan Settlement
Establish a fur trade route
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Map
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Type of Colony Self-governing 1636-1662 Corporate 1662-1776
First colony that goes the corporate route
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The Leader of Hair
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The Leader of Colony Thomas Hooker
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Hooker (not that kind)
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Industry Triangular trade
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Bored Yet?
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Rhode Island Founded in 1636
Founders wanted to escape religious intolerance of Massachusetts Bay Colony
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You Are Now Entering RI
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Governance Self-governing 1636-1644 Joint-Stock 1644-1663
Corporate Second corporate colony
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Yes Master Connecticut
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The Leader Roger Williams
Namesake for Roger Williams College in Rhode Island famous for its Law School
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The Head Rhode Island Red
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Industry Shipping Livestock Agriculture
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You Are Now Leaving RI
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Delaware Founded for trade reasons One of the middle colonies
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Guess Who?
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Governance Proprietary (Swedes) 1638-1655
Dutch West India Colony Proprietary (part Pennsylvania post-1682
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Governance 2 Royal Colony 1704-1776
Went from Swedish hands to British hands after the first proprietary switch through the Dutch India Colonial Company
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Who Wants Delaware?!
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Leaders Johan Pritz Johan Rising William Penn
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The Phillies Helper
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Industry Trade Farming
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Friends With Tractors
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Pennsylvania Founded 1644 Swedish Expansion Establish Quaker Colony
Means “Penn’s Woods”
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Oatmeal Guy!!!
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Governance Part of Swedish, Dutch, and English neighbors until 1681
Proprietary Royal Proprietary
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Eager Young Minds
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Industry Trade Farming Sound familiar? See a pattern?
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Now That’s Farming!
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Carolina North Carolina: 1655 South Carolina: 1670
Founded for land wealth and to strengthen English possessions in America
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North Carolina
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NC Governance Proprietary 1663-1712 Proprietary 1712-1729
Royal Was coupled with South Carolina until 1712
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South Carolina
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South Carolina Governance
Proprietary Royal
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The Leader
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Leaders of Carolina William Berkeley Anthony-Ashley Cooper John Locke
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John Locke
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Industry Ship Supplies Rice Indigo Tobacco
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Yay! Food!
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Georgia Established 1732 Settlement for debtors
Buffer between Spanish Florida and the British Colonies
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That’s No Bull…That’s a Dog
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Governance Proprietary 1732-1752 Royal 1752-1776
A very young colony compared to others
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The New Guy
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The Leader James Oglethorpe
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The Master of Debt
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Industry Rice Indigo Ship Supplies
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Wowie Zowie!
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You Made It!!!!
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