1. (New England, Middle & Southern)
Colonial Regions
(New England, Middle & Southern)

2. New England Colonies Massachusetts Connecticut New Hampshire
Rhode Island

3. New England Colonies Massachusetts
Massachusetts Bay Company
Puritans, came for religious freedom.
Settled present day Massachusetts
1st settlement, Boston.
Same location as John Smith and the Pilgrims.

4. New England Colonies Geography
Boston was settled along the Charles River
Negative: Rocky hard soil
Positive:
Forests with natural resources
Oceans and Rivers provided aquaculture

5. New England Colonies Religion
Settled as an example for the rest of the world.
1630: 700 people
1640: 20,000 people
Education
Very important
Should be able to read the bible
Free schools to all children
Way of Life
Covenant
A special promise or agreement.
Every free man promised that his family would live by the rules of the Puritan church.
New England Colonies Religion

6. New England Colonies Conflict in the promise land?
Puritans wanted everyone to have the same views.
Is that realistic?
Roger Williams
Everyone should tolerate different religious beliefs.
Anne Hutchinson
Believed that people could talk directly to God.
Both were tried in court
Williams
Providence, Rhode Island
1st European Colony that was religiously free
Hutchinson
Portsmouth, Rhode Island

7. New England Colonies Still more conflict?
Thomas Hooker
Each church should be independent
Should choose own leaders
1636
100 followers went with him to Connecticut.

8. New England Colonies Conflicts all around….
More English settlers equals?
Less land for Native Americans.
Roger Williams paid the Narragansett for their land.
Pequot War of 1637
Peace for 40 years
Colonists traveled to present day
New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine.
Wampanoag
Leader: Metacoment
King Phillip
Son of Massasoit
Fought to keep the Wampanoag lands
Last stand of Native American Resistance.
New England Colonies Conflicts all around….

9. Middle Colonies
Delaware
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey

10. Middle Colonies New York- New Jersey Peter Stuyvesant Duke of York
Gift to Berkley and Carteret
Middle Colonies

11. Quakers 1681 King Charles granted William Penn land
“quake before the power of the lord.
Jailed for beliefs in England.
Wanted Religious freedom.
Quakers: Society of friends.
God was in their heart, no need for ministers.
Plain clothes furniture and food.
Anti slavery
Respecting Native Americans
Quakers

12. Quakers and Compromise
Pennsylvania
“Penn’s Woods”
Settlement of Philadelphia
Brotherly Love
Penn sent a letter to the Lenni Lenape
Live peacefully
Neighbors and Friends
Paid for the land.
Peaceful relations.
Quakers and Compromise

13. Middle Colonies- Where did Delaware come from?
Rapidly growing Nation.
Part of Penn became Delaware.
Europeans came looking for a better life.
,000
,000

14. Middle Colonies Geography
Atlantic Ocean to the Appalachian Mountains.
Rivers crisscrossed the colonies.
New York Harbor, busiest port of the 13 colonies.
Rich farm land.
Main food region.
Breadbasket of the colonies.
Grew a lot of wheat.

15. Middle Colonies – Variety of people.
Dutch had already settled by 1600’s.
Jewish people from Portugal.
German farmers
Called Penn. Dutch
Built first Conestoga Wagon.

16. Middle Colonies- Variety of people.
Scots- Irish
Came from Scotland through Northern Ireland.
Africans
Enslaved
Some were free
Few had same rights.

17. Middle Colonies-Overview
Variety of people.
Variety of skills and trades.
The start of the cultural blend in America.

18. The Southern Colonies Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina
Georgia

19. Southern Colonies -Founders
King Charles 1
Lord Baltimore a charter.
Catholics- Freedom of Religion.
Founded Maryland.
Controlled by Proprietors.
Men who control the land.

20. Southern Colonies-Beyond Maryland
Maryland had spread to Virginia.
1663 King Charles II gave 8 proprietors Carolina which split.
James Oglethorpe
1729 Received a charter to found Georgia(after King George II).
Started a colony for debtors and poor people in America.
Debtors
People who owe money.
Southern Colonies-Beyond Maryland

21. Southern Colonies- Georgia
Chief Tomochichi
Leader of the Yamacraw.
Lived on land located around creeks and rivers.
Met with Oglethorpe
Signed a treaty for Savannah, Ga.

22. Other benefits of Georgia.
Separated Carolinas from the Spanish and French land in America.
Saying, “England would get rich by sending their poor abroad.”
Other benefits of Georgia.

23. Southern Colonies- Geography
Foothills of the Appalachian
Atlantic Coast
Red Clay
Great for growing:
Corn
tobacco
Growing season was 7 months.
Rice
Indigo
Plant that produces a blue dye
Southern Colonies- Geography

24. Georgia’s dark side Oglethorpe did not allow slavery.
Proprietors “rented” enslaved Africans from South America.
1750’s slavery was established.
Slavery grew from 1,000 to 4,000.
,000 people in GA.
4,000 lived in slavery.
Georgia’s dark side

25. Southern Colonies- Overview
Maryland was founded for Religious freedom for Catholics.
1732 Georgia became the 13th colony.
Been over 100 years since the first settlement had been established.
In less than 50 years, the 13 colonies will become the United States of America.