Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS Chappaqua,

NY

New England Colonies, 1650

Plymouth (1620)• “Pilgrims” – Separatists• Mayflower Compact (Self-government)• Thanksgiving Story – Wampanoag Indians with

Squanto

Massachusetts Bay (1630) • Puritans• John Winthrop

– “A city upon a hill” (Reagan & Obama)

• Puritans (Purify the English Church)

Puritan “Rebels”

Roger Williams

Anne Hutchinson

Rhode Island (1636)

• Roger Williams • Anne Hutchinson

Connecticut (1635)

• Fundamental Orders • (Self Government)

Middle Colonies

New Amsterdam (1625) = New York (1664)

• Founded by Dutch, but English took over and named it New York.

• Ethnic & Religious diversity

• (Wall St.)

Pennsylvania (1681)• William Penn (Pennsylvania =

“Penn’s Woods”)– Learned Indian language & lived

peacefully – “such trust that Quaker farmers

sometimes left their children in the care of Indians when they were away from home.” p90

• Quakers– No formal sacraments &

ministry – Pacifists– Religious tolerance – Spiritual equality b/w men &

women

Southern Colonies

MarylandVirginia

North CarolinaSouth Carolina

Georgia

Maryland (1634)

• Catholics

The Carolinas

• As a reward for helping him gain the throne, Charles II granted a huge tract of land between VA and Spanish Florida to 8 nobles in 1663

• It was broken into 2 royal colonies in 1729

Carolinas

• Charles Town • Trade with Creeks,

Chickasaws & Cherokees (deer skins & captured enemies as slaves)

Georgia (1732)

• General Oglethorpe • Refuge for poor

(penal colony) & religious freedom

• Military buffer against Spanish in Florida

• Savannah = cosmopolitan city

Georgia – The Last Colony

• A proprietary colony and the only colony to receive direct financial support from the home government in London

• Set up for 2 reasons– Defensive buffer – Rid England’s overcrowded jails of

debtors• Special Regulations

– Absolute ban on drinking rum– Prohibition of slavery

• Colony did not thrive because of the constant threat of Spanish attack

• Taken over by the British government in 1752 when Oglethorpe and his group gave up– Bans on slavery and rum dropped– Colony grew slowly by adopting the

plantation system of South Carolina

Virginia---1607•Jamestown

Joint Stock CompanyVirginia Company

Captain John SmithJohn Rolfe

Attract new settlers for Dutch and Swedish

colonists

Representative Govt•House of Burgesses

Royal Colony

Maryland--1634 Lord BaltimoreReligious toleration—those who believed in Christ---allowed persecuted Catholics to settle in Maryland

Representative govt

Proprietary Colony

North/South CarolinaIn 1663

John Locke

8 English nobles

Setup a new colony based upon social

classes…Failed and divided into 2 parts

Representative govt

Royal Colony

Georgia—1732 James OglethorpeProvide a place for

debtors could start a new life---Acted as a

buffer against Spanish Florida

Royal Colony

Colony/Date Person Responsible Why Founded Governed/Owner