1. Southern Colony Name Leader/ Founder Colony Type (P/R) Religion(s)/
Year Founded
Leader/
Founder
Colony Type (P/R)
Religion(s)/
Beliefs
Economy/
Crop(s)
Reason for
Settlement
Misc.
Maryland
________
Virginia
North Carolina
South
Carolina
Georgia

2. Southern Colony Name Leader/ Founder Colony Type (P/R) Religion(s)/
Year Founded
Leader/
Founder
Colony Type (P/R)
Religion(s)/
Beliefs
Economy/
Crop(s)
Reason for
Settlement
Misc.
Maryland
__1634__
Lord
Baltimore,
George Calvert P
Catholic
Tobacco, Lumber, Fishing, Shipping
Catholics could worship freely
Act of Toleration
Rep. Assembly
Virginia
__1607__
Virginia Co. P,
J-S Co.,
R in 1624
Church of England
Tobacco
Profit
Starving time
House of Burgess
North Carolina
1653, 1712
Dissatisfied Virginians
R in 1729
Various
Rice, Tobacco,
Plantations
Colonial Assembly,
Poor,
Not as much slavery
South
Carolina
1663, 1712
8 Nobles/
Charles II R
Rice, Indigo, Plantations
Slavery
Georgia
__1732__
James
Oglethorpe
R in 1752
Silk, Wine, Plantations
Haven for debtors, Buffer zone

3. New England Colony Name Year Founded Leader/ Founder Colony Type (P/R)
Religion(s)/
Beliefs
Economy/
Crop(s)
Reason for
Settlement
Misc.
New Hampshire
____________
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island

4. Puritan, Separatists New England Colony Name Year Founded Leader/
Founder
Colony Type (P/R)
Religion(s)/
Beliefs
Economy/
Crop(s)
Reason for
Settlement
Misc.
New Hampshire
__1623, 1679___
John Mason,
John Wheelwright R
Puritan, Separatists
Fur, Fishing, Shipbuilding, Lumber, Stone
Religious Freedom
Massachusetts
__1620, 1629__
William Bradford,
John Winthrop
Livestock, Fur, Fishing, Shipbuilding, Lumber
Mayflower Compact
Connecticut
_____1635_____
Thomas
Hooker
Fur, Fishing, Shipbuilding, Lumber
Fund. Orders,
Fertile soil
Rhode Island
_____1636______
Roger Williams
N/A
Various, Dissenters
“Sewer”, self -governing

5. Middle Colony Name Year Founded Leader/ Founder Colony Type (P/R)
Religion(s)/
Beliefs
Economy/
Crop(s)
Reason for
Settlement
Misc.
New York
_________
New Jersey
__________
Pennsylvania
Delaware

6. Middle Colony Name Year Founded Leader/ Founder Colony Type (P/R)
Religion(s)/
Beliefs
Economy/
Crop(s)
Reason for
Settlement
Misc.
New York
____1664_____
Peter Stuyvesant (D), Duke of York (E) R
Church of England
Fur, Lumber
Religious
Freedom
Stolen by British from Dutch
New Jersey
____1664______
Lord Berkeley, Sir George Carteret
R in 1702
Quaker
Fur
Originally part of NY
Pennsylvania
____1682______
William Penn P,
R in 1681
Fur, Lumber, Shipbuilding
Religious Freedom
1-house legislature
Delaware
___1638, 1701__
Peter Minuit, New Sweden Co. P
Stolen by D and E,
Originally part of Penn.