Founded by Pilgrims and Puritans

The Thirteen Colonies:

 Massachusetts - Founded by Pilgrims and Puritans - Pilgrims: separate from Church of England * Came on Mayflower * Wrote Mayflower Compact - Puritans: purify Church of England - Colony to be an example – a moral society - Heretics or nonbelievers could be banished

 Rhode Island - Banished dissenters from Massachusetts - Religious freedom – total separation of church and state

King Philip’s War - Wampanoag chief Metacom [called King Philip by English] organized an alliance to wipe out the settlers - 1675 - Startled Puritans - Many Indians killed  Connecticut - Adopted the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut [a Constitution] - All adult males, not just church members, elected the governor - Expansion from Massachusetts

 New Hampshire - A royal colony ------ New York: - Originally Dutch [New Netherland] - In 1664, British seized and renamed New York - King granted to his brother, James, the Duke of York

 New Jersey: - James granted a portion of his land to two of the king’s closest advisers - Name in honor of one of the men from the island of Jersey

 Pennsylvania - To pay a debt, king gave the land to William Penn - Penn was a Quaker - Advocated pacifism and the “inner light” of every individual – no need for Church ministers - Complete religious freedom

 Delaware - Penn bought more land - Later this land became the colony of Delaware

 Maryland - Lord Baltimore was given a land grant - Granted religious freedom to Catholics who in England faced persecution  Virginia - Jamestown - Tobacco - House of Burgesses

 North Carolina - From Virginia - Tobacco

 South Carolina - from Carolus, the Latin word for Charles, the king - Plantation economy  Georgia - A colony where the poor could start over - A haven for people in debtors prison - Banned slavery but did not last For each term or name, write a sentence explaining its significance: •Jamestown •joint-stock companies •indentured servant •Puritan •King Philip’s War •William Penn •Quaker •mercantilism •Navigation Acts  “The time may come…when the colonies may become populous and with the increase of arts and sciences strong and politic, forgetting their relation to the mother countries, will then confederate and consider nothing further than the means to support their ambition of standing on their [own] legs.” ~ quoted in The Colonial Period of American History PREDICTING EFFECTS: Consider Nehemiah Grew’s prediction for the colonies in the Personal Voice above.  How do you think the British government would respond to his prediction? What issues do you see arising as potential sources of tension between the colonies and Great Britain?

TAKING NOTES: Identify the effects of each of the causes listed in the chart below. Cause Effect Virginia colonists need labor to grow tobacco Puritans are persecuted in England William Penn acquires Pennsylvania Parliament passes the Navigation Acts 