The Thirteen English Colonies New England Colonies Colony: Date: Founded By: Reasons: Importance: Plymouth 1620 ______Religious Freedom Mayflower Compact Massachusetts 1630 ______, Religious Freedom; ______government Bay Massachusetts Bay Build ______through election to General Court Company

1691 Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay joined New Hampshire 1622 John Mason, Sir Profit from ______and Colonists from ______and Maine Ferdinando Gorges ______moved into area; by 1650s under ______control

New Hampshire 1679 Connecticut 1636 ______Expansion of ______, ______and ______: (1) any ______freedoms; man owning property could vote; ______(2) limited power of governor government Rhode Island 1636 ______Religious ______Separates _____ and ______buys land from unlike Massachusetts Bay Colony Narragansetts

Middle Colonies Colony: Date: Founded By: Reasons: Importance: New 1624 Dutch under ______, ______, ______population Netherlands ______

1664 Royal charter from Charles Takes valuable ______New York II to his brother, James, and ______from rival Duke of ______Delaware 1638 ______settlers ______

1664 Seized by ______Take land from rival

1682 Land grant to ______Known as Lower Countries Provides ______with ______, ______colony coastline New Jersey 1664 Lord Berkeley, Sir George Division of ______Few colonists; remains mostly Carteret; ______Because too large to govern; Native American lands colony ______and ______and ______freedoms 1702 Becomes a royal colony Protection of religious freedom and right of assembly to vote on local matters Pennsylvania 1682 ______, ______and Quakers’ “______” proprietary colony ______freedoms Attracts ______population; pays Leni-Lenape for their land Southern Colonies Colony: Date: Founded By: Reasons: Importance: Jamestown 1607 ______Company ______, ______Establishes self-government under the ______Virginia 1624 Becomes royal colony Continues ______under James I ______Maryland 1632 Land grant from Charles I ______and Roman Catholics; elected assembly; to Lord ______; on ______freedoms ______his death to his son, Cecil, providing religious freedom to all Lord ______; first Christians ______colony The Carolinas 1663 Land grant from Charles II ______, ______, ______and ______cultivation; to eight ______freedom need for large numbers of laborers leads to African enslavement North Carolina 1712

South Carolina 1729 ______sold their right to king; became royal Established representative colonies assemblies Georgia 1732 ______; Haven for ______; Originally southern part of ______colony ______against ______; initially only small Spanish Florida farms and no ______; grows slowly and ______allows ______and plantations.

Economic Development in the Thirteen English Colonies Colonies Environment Economy Results New England ______, ______soil with ______farming; Family-farmed land with an occasional long ______winters and ______, hired hand or ______; short growing seasons ______, little use for slavery; trade with England ______; ______and West Indies, including ______for slaves Middle ______; Major ______crops: Some large estates; family farms large ______climate with Wheat, Corn, Rye, enough to hire farm workers or keep longer growing season “______; little ______”; late trade and ______except for plantations in manufacturing centers Delaware. Southern ______soil; ______Small farms for ______, Most farms were small and worked by winters with a ______; labor intensive farm families at a ______growing season; ______, ______, ______; almost ______waterways for irrigation and ______agriculture on ______plantations with transportation plantations; little manufacturing hundreds of ______were the or Southern-owned shipping; few exception; few free blacks in towns and large cities cities