Use the key below to label and color the accompanying map. You are to label each colony with the name of the colony on the map. Then you will pick a different color for each colony and accompanying key box below. Color them the same color on the map as the box next to the colonies name below. - Settled: 1638. Founded Georgia- Settled: 1732. The colony by the Dutch Peter Minuit (for was carved from the Carolinas by ), it was seized by the King George II (its namesake) to , which yielded it to the create a buffer zone between British, who made it part of Spain’s holdings to the south and Pennsylvania (to Maryland’s the English colonies to the north. anger). This colony was named Also, it’s founder James Oglethorpe after the early colonial Governor of created it as a refuge for debtors Virginia, Lord de la Warr. In 1704 working toward their freedom. Penn granted the three lower English, German, Swiss, and counties of Delaware their own Scottish settled here. All religions assembly. These counties later were welcomed. In 1752 due to broke away to form the Colony of unrest it became a royal colony. Delaware. Connecticut- Settled: 1635. Pennsylvania- Settled: 1643. This Named after the Algonquin word colony had once been home to Quinnetukqut (“Beside the Long Dutch and the Swedish colonists. Tidal River”), it was founded by The English King Charles II owed Thomas Hooker, who was driven the Penn family money. In out of Massachusetts for his repayment he awarded William toleration religious views. In 1639 Penn (a Quaker) large piece of land they adopted the Fundamental in the Americas to form a colony in Orders of Connecticut, which were 1681. The King hoped this would in effect a constitution. These encourage Quakers to leave Britain. extended the rights to vote to non- Its name means “Penn Woods”. church members and limited the Penn formed the colony to fostered power of the governor. Also, they religious toleration and brotherly expanded the ideas of love. representative government.

New Jersey- Settled: 1633. It was Massachusetts- Settled: 1620. It named for the Isle of Jersey. In was colonized by the Pilgrims and, 1664 it was given as a gift by the later, Puritans during the Great Duke of York to friends Sir George Migration. Both groups were forced Carteret and Lord John Berkeley. to flee England due to oppression Carteret was Governor. This by the Church of England. colonies real estate, trade potential, Ironically, these groups intolerance and natural resources drew of other religions and religious settlers. differences would lead to the founding of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Maryland- Settled: 1634. Charles New Hampshire- Settled: 1623. I Granted Lord Baltimore its Given as a Crown grant to John charter as a haven for British Mason (from New Hampshire, Catholic; it was said to be named England), it was settled by refugees for the King’s wife, Queen Mary but from Massachusetts Pilgrims. Its in reality it was named in honor of first European settlement was near the Virgin Mary. An outpost of Portsmouth in 1623. In 1638 John religious tolerance, it also Wheelwright set up the town of pioneered tobacco as a crop. Exeter. The town’s founders drew up the Exeter Compact based on North Carolina- Settled: 1653. In the Mayflower Compact. 1663, Carolina was founded as a colony when King Charles II split Virginia- Settled: 1607. This was this off from Virginia. King Charles the first successful English colony. II gave this to his loyal nobles. It began as a business venture; only Carolina’s name came from 60 of the original 900 settlers “Carolus,” Latin for Charles. survived. Named for Elizabeth I, Farmers grew rice in the north, the “Virgin Queen”; Its House of tobacco in the south. Indigo was Burgesses was the first also grown here (these are slave representative assembly in the crops). 1729 Carolina became a British Colonies. In 1724 this royal colony ruled by governors colony became a royal colony. appointed by the King. Also, in that year Carolina was divided into New York -Settled: 1624. The North Carolina and South Carolina jewel of the Dutch holdings in the due to agricultural rivalries. New World; known originally as “”. It was seized by South Carolina- Settled: 1670. A the British in 1664. James, the Spanish colony here in 1526 lasted Duke of York (brother of King only a single year; 144 years later, Charles II) renamed this after English settlers moved in from himself and became the proprietor, Barbados. In 1670 English settlers owner, of all of New Netherlands. from there built Charles Town, later called Charleston. Just as in Rhode Island- Settled: 1636. Barbados slaves were used from Roger Williams, banished from the beginning. After 1685, Massachusetts for advocating the Charleston became a refuge for separation of church and state, Huguenots, French Protestants, founded this most tolerant of the seeking religious freedom. In 1729 original 13 colonies. Anne Carolina became a royal colony and Hutchinson also fled here after was split into two. being force to leave Massachusetts to for her religious views.