1. Massachusetts Bay Colony
Founder: John Winthrop
Year: 1630
Who colonized: Puritans
Reason: Religious persecution and a failing wool industry
Major works/events: “City Upon a Hill” speech & Salem Witch Trials. Place of the first Thanksgiving.
Type of Government: Representative assembly: those who had ownership in stocks could participate in the government

2. Rhode Island Founder(s): Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson Year: 1644
Who colonized: Heretics who spoke out against the King of England
Reason: Religious persecution
Major works/events: N/A
Type of Government: Separation of Church and State

3. Connecticut Founder: Thomas Hooker Year: 1639
Who colonized: Followers of Thomas Hooker
Reason: Thomas Hooker and his followers were frustrated with their inability to find good land in Massachusetts and by the requirement that one must hold stock in the Bay Company in order to vote
Major works/events: Fundamental Orders of Connecticut – America’s 1st written constitution
Type of Government: Representative assembly: all adult men were allowed to vote for Governor and the General Court (legislature)

4. New Hampshire Founder(s): Founded by a Royal Charter Year: 1679
Who colonized: Settlers of Massachusetts heading North
Reason: space
Major works/events: N/A
Type of Government: Similar to Massachusetts

5. New York
Founder(s): Originally the Dutch and it was called New Amsterdam. James of York (English)
Year: 1614 but in it was taken over by the English in 1663 for fear that English colonist would smuggle goods out of New Amsterdam and not pay British taxes.
Who colonized: Fur traders
Reason: Fur traders
Major works/events: The Dutch allowed people of all nationalities to settle so we see the first Jewish settlers and 1000 slaves.
Type of Government: Separation of Church and State

6. New Jersey Founder(s): Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley
Year: 1644
Who colonized: English citizens and Puritan settlers
Reason: Carteret and Lord Berkeley offered land grants, religious freedom, and the right to assembly
Major works/events: N/A
Type of Government: Legislative assembly

7. Pennsylvania Founder(s): William Penn Year: 1684
Who colonized: Quakers, and Natives
Reason: Religious persecution who sought religious freedom
Major works/events: Treaty of Shackamaxon – a treaty with the native people establishes the capital of Philadelphia
Type of Government: Appointed a governor but allowed all men who owned land or pay taxes as long as they were Christian to vote for a legislative assemebly

8. Delaware Founder(s): William Penn Year: 1682
Who colonized: Purchased by Penn from the Duke of York (NY) to be part of PA but it became its own colony
Reason: Same as PA
Major works/events: Same as PA
Type of Government: Same as PA

9. North Carolina
Founder(s): John White (Roanoke Island) and Nathaniel Batts
Year: 1587 and then again in 1655
Who colonized: English Citizens. In Roanoke the colonists all disappeared
Reason: Originially trade but then to find suitable farm land
Major works/events: 1587 the first English child was born in the New World. The Lost Colony.
Type of Government: Royal Colony

10. South Carolina
Founder(s): Eight noble men known as the Lords of Proprietors
Year: 1663 in 1729 it became its own royal colony
Who colonized: Many settlers from the Caribbean Islands
Reason: Religious persecution
Major works/events: Fundamental Orders of Carolina (John Locke). Major source of trade for tabacco.
Type of Government: Fundamental Orders of Carolina

11. Georgia Founder(s): James Oglethrope Year: 1733
Who colonized: Poor debtors
Reason: To start an new life and escape the sins of their past
Major works/events: The colony banned rum, brandy, and slavery
Type of Government: Royal Charter

12. Virginia Founder(s): The London Company Year: 1607
Who colonized: Men who were trying to get rich
Reason: To make a profit
Major works/events: Jamestown becomes the first successful permanent English Colony
Type of Government: Royal Charter

13. Maryland Founder(s): Lord Baltimore Year: 1632
Who colonized: Catholics
Reason: Religious persecution
Major works/events: In 1649, the Maryland Toleration Act was passed which guaranteed religious tolerance to settlers, as long as the religion was a sect of Christianity
Type of Government: Royal Colony

14. Bellwork #2 (9/1/2015)
In the American Vision Textbook read the Mayflower Compact (page 1061). Why do you think the passengers on the Mayflower wrote up a plan for government?

15. Stations for Document Work
Please do not write on any of the documents
You can work together but everyone needs to submit their own answers!!!
Activity 1: “A City Upon a Hill”
Activity 2: Events that Fostered the Democratic Ideals in the English Colonies
Activity 3: SOAPSTone for the 13 Colonies: Life in Early American
Activity 4: Salem Witch Trial Documents!