1. CYurky Homer-Center HS US History 8
Founding the colonies
CYurky
Homer-Center HS
US History 8

2. Crash Course
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The original 13 English Colonies were founded over a 125 year period.

4. Virginia (1607) King James gave charter to London Company
Jamestown was first successful colony
Made profits growing Tobacco
John Smith made colony productive
House of Burgesses was first “representative government” in America

5. Massachusetts (1620) Pilgrims came to America for religious freedom
Settled at Plymouth Rock
Traded with the Indians
Puritans followed and formed Massachusetts Bay Colony
Set up settlement at Boston

6. New Hampshire (1629) Explored by French and British
Settlers from Massachusetts moved into the region
King James I gave a charter to John Mason
Became farmers

7. Maryland (1634)
Colony for Roman Catholics (also experienced persecution)
George Calvert (Lord Baltimore) obtained land from King Charles I.
Named after Queen Henrietta Maria
George died, so claim given to his son Cecil.
Traded with the Indians
Successful farmers
Passed the Toleration Act which gave freedom of religion to all Christians

8. Rhode Island (1636) Puritans didn’t allow freedom of religion
Roger Williams moved to Providence and established new colony

9. Connecticut (1636) Thomas Hooker left Massachusetts Bay
Led a small group of people south
Settled around Hartford
Wrote first constitution
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

10. Delaware (1638) Fort Christina settled by Swedish
Dutch captured in 1654
English took over 1664 and finally

11. Carolinas (1663)
Land explored by French (Verrazano) and Spanish (de Soto)
Sir Walter Raleigh tried to settle at Roanoke
Settlers from Virginia moved into the region
Charles II gave the land to eight nobles who were friends of his
In the early 1700s the colony was split into North and South

12. New york (1664)
Explored by French (Verrazano) and English (Henry Hudson)
Dutch established colony “New Netherland”
Peter Minuit bought Manhattan Island from the Indians
Built settlement of New Amsterdam
Dutch leader Peter Stuyvesant eventually lost the colony to the English in 1674

13. New Jersey (1664) First settled by Dutch (Holland) Fur traders
When English captured New Netherland, took region
King gave charter to two friends Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret

14. Pennsylvania (1681) First settled by the Swedish
King Charles gave charter to William Penn to repay debt
Penn brought Quakers to the colony
Established Philadelphia
“Holy Experiment” where all religions could exist side by side
Traded with the Indians

15. Georgia (1733)
Originally the land was the frontier between the Carolinas and Spanish Florida
Indians often attacked
James Oglethorpe suggest a new colony
Suggested that the colony be opened for the poor in English jails
King George II gave Oglethorpe a charter
Founded Savannah