13 colonies

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13 colonies

• And how and why they were founded.

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Why they were founded

• The colonies were founded because people were
  looking for more land .The people that traveled
  there were travelers searching for religious
  freedom.

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The thirteen colonies

• Delaware was founded in 1639 by Peter Minuit.
• Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn in 1682.
• New York was found by Duke of York in 1664.New
  Jersey was found in 1664 by Lord Berkeley and sir
  George Carteret.Rhode Island was found in 1636 by
  Roger Williams.Connecticut was found in 1635 by
  Thomas Hooker.Massachusetts was found in 1630 by
  John Winthrop.New Hampshire in 1638 by John
  Wheelwright.Maryland was found in 1663 by lord
  Baltimore.Virginia was found in 1607
• By John Smith.North Carolina was found in1653
  by Virginia colonists.South Carolina was found in
  1663 by English colonists. Georgia was found in
  1732 by James Oglethorpe .

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Geographic characteristics

• The New England colonies soil rocky which means
  low amounts of agriculture.The Southern colonies
  has good rich soil and lots of land for farming..
  Middles Colonies there are many harbors for
  fishing and lots of plains.

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Key Founding Fathers

• The key founding fathers were the English
  colonists and Peter Minuit.

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Key Founding Fathers

• The key founding fathers were the English
  colonists and Peter Minuit.

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Their Daily Life

• Their daily life was,they grew their own food and
  the women cooked,cleaned and took care of the
  kids.The men chopped wood,grew crops and
  hunted.The children played with toys that were
  hand made by them.They also went to school and
  did chores.

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Religion

• The Middle colonists left for religious
  freedom.The New England colonists also left for
  religious freedom,so did the Southern colonists.

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Economic Conditions

• They grew their own food and had lots of
  agriculture in all of the regions.they also all
  traded foods that they grew.They manufactured
  newspapers to the people.

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Slavery

• All of the regions had slavery.They treated the
  slaves like animals.The slaves did lots of hard
  labor.

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CREDITS

• The Colony of North Carolina edited by New York
  copy right in 2001by Susan Whitehurst and a
  Google search on colonies maps.