1. 13 English Colonies Chart

2. Choose Three Colors Color lightly over the words w/ pencil or crayon
“New England Colonies”
“Middle Colonies”
“Southern Colonies”
Color the corresponding colonies lightly on the map the same colors
CAREFULLY!

3. Lay out your map and your chart
Find the same three colors you used on the map for the…
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
Color lightly over the corresponding labels on the chart with the same colors
Put your colors away and have a pen or pencil to write with

4. Virginia Year = 1607 Reason Founded = economic opportunity – tobacco
Founder(s) = Virginia Company - joint stock company
Early Settlement = Jamestown
Self Government = House of Burgesses

5. Massachusetts
Year = 1620
Reason Founded = Escape religious persecution
Founder(s) =
1620 – Separatists &
Puritans
Early Settlements = Plymouth & Mass. Bay
Self Government =
Mayflower Compact

6. Rhode Island Year = 1636 Reason Founded = Religious freedom
Founder = Roger Williams – after he was forced to leave Massachusetts Bay colony
Early Settlement = Providence
-Roger Williams-founded first Baptist church in America-opposed forced attendance at church & English colonists taking Native American lands by force-founded Rhode Island-guaranteed religious freedom and separation of church and state.

7. Williams’ belief, was that all individuals and religious bodies were entitled to religious liberty as a natural right, and that civil governments did not have the authority to enforce religious laws.

8. Rhode Island Year = 1636 Reason Founded = Religious freedom
Founder = Roger Williams – after he was forced to leave Massachusetts Bay colony
Early Settlement = Providence
Government – Separation of church and state
-Roger Williams-founded first Baptist church in America-opposed forced attendance at church & English colonists taking Native American lands by force-founded Rhode Island-guaranteed religious freedom and separation of church and state.

9. Maryland
Year = 1632
Reason Founded = Haven for Catholics but offered religious freedom
Founder = George Calvert, Lord Baltimore
Early Settlement = Baltimore
Government = Religious Toleration Act (1639) offered religious freedom to all Christians in the colony
To attract more settlers promised religious freedom to all Christians (Catholics and Protestants)

10. Pennsylvania
Year = 1681
Reason Founded = Haven for Quakers but offered religious freedom
Founder = William Penn
Early Settlements = Philadelphia – largest city in the colonies
-Founded as a refuge for Quakers-welcomed different religions and ethnic groups-allowed anyone who believed in God to settle there (included Jews)
-Quakers believed that each person could know God directly through “an inner light”-neither ministers nor the Bible was needed-also believed in treating Native Americans fairly-were whipped, imprisoned, and hanged in Massachusetts

11. -Great Migration forcing congregations to set up new colonies-Mass settlers began to move north but still economically dependent on Mass- New Hampshire founded in 1638 when John Wheelwright established the town of Exeter NH separate colony in 1679-Maine separate state in 1820

12. New Hampshire Year = 1623 Reason founded = Trading and Fishing
Founders = Proprietors
Early Settlement = Exeter
- New Hampshire founded in 1638 when John Wheelwright established the town of Exeter NH separate colony in 1679

13. Connecticut
Year = 1636
Reason Founded = Puritans seeking more land during the Great Migration
Founders = Thomas Hooker moved his Puritan congregation
Early Settlement = Hartford
Government = Fundamental Orders of Connecticut - 1st written constitution (plan of government) in North America
Written to govern the colony
-Fundamental Orders of Connecticut-were in effect a constitution-1st written constitution in North America-extended voting rights to non-church members and limited the power of the governor-expanded the idea of representative government

15. The Dutch colony, New Netherland, was a threat to England
-Threat because of trade expanding settlements and location New Netherland was originally Dutch colonies-city of New Amsterdam was the center of trade
Problems: (1) lacked settlers (2) poor leadership (3) wars with local Natives
Located between New England to the north and the Chesapeake region to the south
In 1664 the Dutch settlers surrendered to England without a fight

16. New York
Year = 1624
Reason Founded = Trade for the Dutch West Indies Company
Founders = The Dutch
Important Events = New Amsterdam surrendered to the English in August the Duke of York became the owner of the colony - renamed New York
King gives land to his brother, the Duke of York-Capital (New Amsterdam) and colony renamed New York
Early 20th century Dutch Revival buildings on Pearl Street in lower Manhattan recall the Dutch origins of the city. The original 17th century architecture of New Amsterdam has completely vanished (aided by the fires of 1776 and 1835), leaving only archaeological remnants.

17. Delaware Year = 1638 Reason founded = Trade and land Founders = Sweden
Early Settlements = Fort Christina renamed Wilmington
was part of Pennsylvania until it broke away after 1704
Originally settled in 1638 by Sweden-lost colony to Dutch-who lost to English-was part of Pennsylvania until it broke away after being granted their own assembly

18. New Jersey
Year = 1664
Reason Founded = Awarded by the Duke of York to two English nobles
Founders = George Cateret and Lord John Berkeley
Government = offered religious and political freedoms
Land given to two English nobles-named for the Isle of Jersey-promised large grants of land and a representative assembly

21. North & South Carolina Year = 1663
Reason Founded = Given as a reward for loyalty to King Charles II
Founders = Proprietors
Early Settlements = Charles Town later becomes Charleston - Split into two colonies in 1729.
Founders received the land from King Charles II as a reward for their loyalty to him-named in his honor (Carolus is Latin for Charles) -cash crops were rice, indigo, and tobacco-settlers in north and south had many differences and the colony split in two in 1729

22. Georgia Year = 1732 Reason founded = Haven for debtors or poor people
Founder = James Oglethorpe
Important events = English government wanted to use it as a military outpost against Spanish Florida.
Founded as a refuge for debtors