1. The English Colonies

2. The Southern Colonies

3. I.Virginia Jamestown, VA
A Virginia Company of London started it in VA.
B.First permanent English settlement in North America.
C Problems with illness- climate- had a starving time.
D. John Smith took over.

6. E. Powhatan brought food and helped the colonists plant corn.
F. Disease and famine caused another starving time.

7. 7. 1612- Rolfe introduces tobacco- Jamestown gets rich.
8.John Rolfe marries Pocahontas, a Powhatan princess.

9. 9. 1619- First house of Burgess is started
First house of Burgess is started. This is the first house of representatives in North America.
Indians fight colonists over land.

11. G. 1676- Bacon burns Jamestown

12. II.Maryland A. A colony for Catholics
B. Started by Lord Baltimore (George Calvert)
C. Religious freedom
D. Proprietary Colony- the owners controlled the government.
E.Tobacco was an important crop

13. III. Carolinas A.Founded in 1663.
B. Was divided into North and South by the king.
C. Encouraged Slavery
D. Started as a proprietary colony, but was then bought by the king and made a royal colony
E. Grew rice and indigo
F. French Protestants called
Huguenots settled there

14. IV.Georgia A. Founded by James Oglethorpe
B. A colony for people who owed money
C.Oglethorpe outlawed slavery, but when Georgia became a royal colony slavery was permitted.
D. Spanish tried to take over this colony to get to the Carolinas

15. The New England Colonies

16. In the early 1500’s King Henry VIII of England broke away from the Catholic Church and started the Church of England.

17. Not everyone liked the new church.

18. Puritans are members of the Church of England who wanted to purify the Church of England.
(purify= to make simpler)

19. Separatists wanted to separate from the Church of England
Separatists wanted to separate from the Church of England. Pilgrims are separatists.

20. I. Colony of Massachusetts

21. _________ Wrote the Mayflower Compact-
A. The Pilgrims
 _________ Wrote the Mayflower Compact-
colonists agreed to have fair laws to
protect the general good
________ Starving Time
_________ Separated from the Church of
England
_________ Celebrated the first Thanksgiving
_________ Samoset and Squanto helped them
plant crops
_________ Asked the Virginia Company if they
could settle in Virginia
_________ Ended up off the coast of Plymouth, MA instead of
Virginia in 1620
_________ formed a joint stock company in hopes of making a
profit

22. B. The Puritans (wanted to purify the Church of England)
So many came, it was called the ________ ____________.
In 1629, they started the _________ ________ Colony.

23. 4. ____________ _____________ was in charge (1st governor).
5. Had a __________ _________ , a type of self government to help run the colony.
6. Towns were built around the meeting house where people prayed and made laws.

24. II Colony of Connecticut

25. A. Started in _____________ (year) by ___________ ________________.
B. The ________________ ____________ of _________________ made their government more democratic.
C. Allowed people besides Puritans to vote.

26. III Colony of Rhode Island

27. A. Founded in 1636 by __________ _______.
B. Roger Williams did not support the taking land from ____________ ___________ without paying them.
C. Williams believed in ___________ _______________ for all members of the community.
D. ________ _______ also went there because she believed people could pray at home and did not need guidance from ministers.

28. IV Colony of New Hampshire

29. A. Set up in 1638 by John Wheelright
B. Had a compact similar to the Mayflower Compact.
C. In 1679, it broke away from Massachusetts and became its own colony.

30. The Middle Colonies

31. I. New York continued

32. A. An _____________ fleet captured New Amsterdam without a shot being fired.
B. New Amsterdam became ____________ ________________.

33. II. New Jersey

34. A. Given to ___________ ______________ and ____________ ______________ by the Duke of York.
B. This colony lay between the ___________ and _____________ rivers.
C. There was a diverse population including ___________, ____________, __________, and _____________.

35. III. Pennsylvania

36. A. _____________ ____________ founded the colony as a place where _____________ could freely practice their religion.
B. The government consisted of an ____________ _______________; an example of self-governmnet.
C. Religious freedom
D. Philadelphia means the ___________ of ______________ ____________.

37. IV Delaware

38. A. Broke away from ____________.