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Thirteen Colonies Assignment. Find the following information for your colony. Who founded your colony? For what purpose was it founded? What did the colony grow or produce? Name one important person from your colony. Why was that person important? . Timeline. 1. Virginia (1607). - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Thirteen Colonies Assignment
Find the following information for your
colony• Who founded your colony?• For what purpose was it founded?• What did the colony grow or produce?• Name one important person from your
colony. Why was that person important?
Timeline
Virginia (1607) Massachusetts (1620)
New Hampshire (1623)
Maryland (1623) Connecticut (1635) Rhode Island (1635)
Delaware (1638) North Carolina (1653)
South Carolina (1663)
New Jersey (1664) New York (1664) Pennsylvania (1682)
Georgia (1732)
1. Virginia (1607)
• Founded by Virginia company, named after Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen (Sir Walter Raleigh)
• Became royal colony• Tobacco – important cash crop• Led by Captain John Smith
2. Massachusetts (1620)
• Pilgrims (founders) and Puritans• Better climate than Virginia’s• Seeking religious freedom• Corn, fishing, shipbuilding• John Winthrop (Massachusetts Bay) and
William Bradford (Plymouth)
3. New Hampshire (1623)
• Potatoes, fishing, shipbuilding• Founded by John Wheelwright • Religious freedom, disagreement with other
Puritans• Anne Hutchinson
4. Maryland (1634)
• Founded for English Catholics by Lord Baltimore
• Named after Queen Henrietta Maria of England
• Shipbuilding, corn, wheat, tobacco• First colony given to an individual, not a
company
5. Connecticut (1635)
• Founded by Thomas Hooker• Wheat, corn, fishing• Founded by Puritans seeking better land
and access to the fur trade• Self-governing colony, established
Fundamental Orders
6. Rhode Island (1636)• Founded by Roger Williams – believed true
church must have no relations with government
Critical Thinking: How did this help to influence American history?
• Agriculture, fishing, livestock• Dutch word for “Red” is “Rhode”• Become a place for people who believed
government had no place in religion
7. Delaware (1638)
• Founded by Peter Minuit• Named after early governor De la Warr• Agriculture
8. North Carolina (1653)
• Named after King Charles (Carolus is the Latin word for Charles)
• Plantation agriculture—tobacco, rice• Founded by Virginia colonists seeking better
land• Planters had huge land grants; some
brought slaves from Barbados and indentured servants
9. South Carolina (1663)
• Named after King Charles (Carolus is the Latin word for Charles)
• Plantation agriculture—tobacco, rice• Founded by English colonists seeking better
land• Planters had huge land grants; some
brought slaves from Barbados and indentured servants
10. New Jersey (1664)
• Founded by English colonists• Manufacturing • Land given by Duke of York to George
Carteret and John Berkeley, named after Carteret’s birthplace Jersey.
• Many Dutch, Quakers, and Puritans
11. New York (1664)
• Manufacturing, agriculture• Started as New Netherlands, a Dutch colony• Peter Minuit originally purchased New York
from Indians• Wall Street – name given by Dutch for old
protection wall• England won from the Dutch
12. Pennsylvania (1682)
• Founded by William Penn, Quakers• Wheat, corn, papermaking• Land given to Penn by King Charles• Encourage all faiths to come, had elected
assembly• Treated Indians well – good relations• Purchased land from Indians
13. Georgia (1732)
• Philanthropic experiment – provide land to the poor
• Named after England’s King George• Rice, sugar, indigo• Founded by James Oglethorpe• Many groups: Scots, Germans, Jews • Rice, lumber, beef, pork