1. The Thirteen Colonies 1.The Creation of: The New England colonies
The Middle Colonies
The Southern Colonies

2. The New England Colonies
2. Climate
Long harsh winters and short summers resulted in the shortest growing season of the three regions
3. Physical Features
Abundance of raw material
Lumbar
Fish
4. Geography
Mountainous
Rivers
The soil was very rocky and thin (not deep)

3. New England 1620 The Pilgrims Led by William Bradford
Left English Persecution
Governed by the Mayflower Compact
Constitutional Government realizing they were far from England
5. Settle in Plymouth (Cape Cod)
Modern-day Massachusetts

4. New England 1630 The Puritans 6. Led by John Winthrop
Escaped religious persecution from England
But still wanted to partake in the church of England
Winthrop was the first elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

5. Rhode Island 1636 Roger William
Complained about the political system of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Had a problem with the fact that there was no separation between Church and State
Was threatened with deportation
In 1636, Roger William moved south and established Providence, Rhode Island
7. The first colony to allow Religious Freedom

6. Connecticut 1636 Reverend Thomas Hooker
8. Another dissenter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and John Winthrop
Took 100 followers and established the Hartford Settlement along the Connecticut River Valley

7. Dissenters of John Winthrop's Governing
Anne Hutchinson
Challenged Puritan doctrine
9. Questioned the role of church leaders
BANISHED!!!
Reverend John Wheelwright
Also opposed the Puritan governance
, 100 followers and Wheelwright leave and settle Exeter (New Hampshire)

8. Growth of New England

9. The Middle Colonies Climate Physical Features
11. Longer Summers than New England resulting in a longer growing season
Physical Features
Coastal plains to the Appalachian foothills
Numerous waterways for trade and transportation
Fertile soil for productive agriculture
12. Became known as the “breadbasket” of the colonies
13. Natural resources include timber, furs, and agriculture

10. Settling New Netherland
The Dutch wanted to establish trading relationships in the New World
Henry Hudson explores the present-day coastline of New York and claims it for the Dutch, naming it New Netherland
14. Fort Orange (Albany) is established in 1614
1624 – Manhattan Island is purchased from the Mannahata and 15. New Amsterdam (New York City) is established
The Dutch take control of the Hudson River Valley

11. New Netherlands New York
Dutch settle smack-dab in the middle of Britain new economic harvest (the America’s)
King Charles II orders the British fleet to conquer New Netherlands
Peter Stuyvesant, the governor of New Amsterdam is very unpopular
When the British fleet arrives, no citizens join in the fight to defend and Stuyvesant surrenders the colony to the British

12. New York and New Jersey
1664 – after the capture of New Netherland, the King gives it as a gift to his younger brother, the Duke of York.
Gets renamed, New York
16. As another gift, friends of the family, Sir George Carteret and William Berkeley get a closely land grant as well
New Jersey

13. Pennsylvania and Delaware
William Penn
Son of an admiral and a Quaker (pacifist)
17. Penn was given a land grant for repayment of a debt
The king owed his father 16,000 pounds
Who need cash when you have a whole-lot of land
In 1681, Penn creates a Quaker colony on his new land and names it, Pennsylvania (Penn’s Woods)
18. Delaware is part of Pennsylvania until 1703 when it is granted it’s own right to assembly

14. Quakerism Founded by George Fox
Believed that on could have a personal relationship with God without the clergy
Sound familiar?
Believed that everyone was equal
Including women
Women were able to speak up in assembly
Pacifist that believed in non-violence and no slavery

15. Middle Colonies

16. Southern Colonies

17. The Southern Colonies Chesapeake Bay region (Virginia and Maryland)
Founded and explored with the Jamestown colony (John Smith)
20. Thick red clay made tobacco growing prominent
Chesapeake geography was not beneficial to town growth like that of New England
Deep water estuaries (rivers) allowed farmers to export product directly from their own docks
No deep-water port was needed
The Carolina’s and Georgia
21. The plantation system prevails
Due to a longer growing season (7 months), the cultivation of larger and more diverse crops (cash crops) were available
Georgia
Debtors colony
22.Those that owed a debt back in England were shipped off
Why fill up the English jails when you can get cheap labor?

18. Project
Use the time left in the period to work on your projects. Most of you should have numbers 1-5 completed on then Colonial section. Try to complete up to 10 on that section.
Groups:
Darnell/ Omar-New Jersey
Bryant/Celines-Georgia
Jessica/Eric- Pennsylvania
Sara/Tiffani-Rhode Island
Jacob/Michael-New York
Aridy/Luis-Virginia