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