13 English Colonies Chart 13 English Colonies Chart Slide 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! Slide 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 Slide 4 Virginia
Year = 1607 Reason Founded = economic opportunity tobacco
Founder(s) = Virginia Company - joint stock company Early
Settlement = Jamestown Self Government = House of Burgesses Slide 5
Massachusetts Year = 1620 Reason Founded = Escape religious
persecution Founder(s) = 1620 Separatists & 1630 - Puritans
Early Settlements = Plymouth & Mass. Bay Self Government =
Mayflower Compact Mayflower Compact Slide 6 Rhode Island Year =
1636 Reason Founded = Religious freedom Founder = Roger Williams
after he was forced to leave Massachusetts Bay colony Early
Settlement = Providence Slide 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. Slide 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
Slide 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 Slide 10 Pennsylvania Year = 1681 Reason Founded =
Haven for Quakers but offered religious freedom Founder = William
Penn Early Settlements = Philadelphia largest city in the colonies
Slide 11 Slide 12 New Hampshire Year = 1623 Reason founded =
Trading and Fishing Founders = Proprietors Early Settlement =
Exeter Slide 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 1 st written
constitution (plan of government) in North America Government =
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut - 1 st written constitution (plan
of government) in North America Written to govern the colony Slide
14 Slide 15 The Dutch colony, New Netherland, was a threat to
England Slide 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 1664 - the
Duke of York became the owner of the colony - renamed New York
Slide 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
Slide 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 Slide 19 Slide 20 Slide 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. Slide
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. Slide 23
