Thirteen Colonies Assignment

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Thirteen Colonies Assignment
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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?

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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)
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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

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2. Massachusetts (1620)

• Pilgrims (founders) and Puritans
• Better climate than Virginias
• Seeking religious freedom
• Corn, fishing, shipbuilding
• John Winthrop (Massachusetts Bay) and William
  Bradford (Plymouth)

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3. New Hampshire (1623)

• Potatoes, fishing, shipbuilding
• Founded by John Wheelwright
• Religious freedom, disagreement with other
  Puritans
• Anne Hutchinson

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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

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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

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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

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7. Delaware (1638)

• Founded by Peter Minuit
• Named after early governor De la Warr
• Agriculture

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8. North Carolina (1653)

• Named after King Charles (Carolus is the Latin
  word for Charles)
• Plantation agriculturetobacco, rice
• Founded by Virginia colonists seeking better land
• Planters had huge land grants some brought
  slaves from Barbados and indentured servants

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9. South Carolina (1663)

• Named after King Charles (Carolus is the Latin
  word for Charles)
• Plantation agriculturetobacco, rice
• Founded by English colonists seeking better land
• Planters had huge land grants some brought
  slaves from Barbados and indentured servants

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10. New Jersey (1664)

• Founded by English colonists
• Manufacturing
• Land given by Duke of York to George Carteret and
  John Berkeley, named after Carterets birthplace
  Jersey.
• Many Dutch, Quakers, and Puritans

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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

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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

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13. Georgia (1732)

• Philanthropic experiment provide land to the
  poor
• Named after Englands King George
• Rice, sugar, indigo
• Founded by James Oglethorpe
• Many groups Scots, Germans, Jews
• Rice, lumber, beef, pork