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MassachusettsYear
Founded1620 (Plymouth)1630 (Mass Bay)
Reason Religious FreedomReligious Freedom
OtherInfo
Founders of Plymouth set out their government in the Mayflower Compact
These were separatists
Had town meetings – first democracy in the New World
Economy based on fishing, shipbuikding, subsistence farming, lumnber
Society governed by General Court in Mass. BayPuritan church controlled all aspects of society but family units were importsnt
New Hampshire
Year Founded
1620
Reason Trade and Fishing
OtherInfo
Originally settled by a man banished from Mass. Bay Colony
Allowed more freedom of religion and more men were allowed to
vote.
Economy same as Massachusette
Rhode Island
Year Founded
1636
Reason Religious Freedom
OtherInfo
Founded by Roger Williams when he was banished from Mass. Bay
Colony
Separation of church and state – landowners could vote, church
membership not requires
Economy same as that of other New England colonies
New York
Year Founded
1624
Reason Trade – primarily food stuffs and furs along with fishing
OtherInfo
Open to anyone who wanted to buy land
Did not depend on slavery
Had more religious diversity and tolerance than New England
Pennsylvania
Year Founded
1682 byWilliam Penn
Reason Religious Freedom
OtherInfo
A haven for Quakers but had other religions
Had friendly relationship with Native Americans
More people allowed to vote
Economy same as New York
Connecticut
Year Founded
1635
Reason Trade, Religious Freedom, and
Political Freedom
OtherInfo
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, the first written constitution in America – democracy demonstrated in egalitarian society
Economy basically same as Mass. Bay Colony
Society based on equality of all people but was influenced by the Puritan Church
New Jersey
Year Founded
1638
Reason(Why?)
Profit from selling land
OtherInfo
Religious diversityLarge families
Exported food stuffs and fursDid not depend on slavery
Delaware
Year Founded
1638
Reason Trade
OtherInfo
Same as Pennsylvania
Maryland
Year Founded
1634A proprietary colony of Lord
Baltimore
Reason Religious Freedom for
Catholics
OtherInfo
Though a haven for Catholics Maryland was tolerant of other
religionsTobacco was its cash crop
Depended on indentured servants and later slavery
Society was a plantation society (hierarchical)
Virginia
Year Founded
1607- Jamestown
Reason Trade – originally a charter colony it became a royal colony-
Depended on the cash Crop tobacco
OtherInfo
First successful British colony in North America
First elected representative assembly – Virginia House of Burgesses 1619
Plantation society
North Carolina
Year Founded
1660A royal colony founded for
economic gain
Reason TradeEconomy based on pitch, tar, and
other shipbuilding supplies as well as tobacco
OtherInfo
Was once part of Virginia and then became Carolina
Split with South Carolina in the mid 1700sPlantation society that depended on
slavery(A hierarchical society)
Religious tolerance but the Church of England was the main religion
South Carolina
Year Founded
1670 As a royal colony for economic gain
Reason TradeOriginal cash crops were rice
and indigo
OtherInfo
Was once part of “Carolina” but split with North Carolina in
the mid 1700sPlantation society that depended on slavery
Religious tolerance but the Church of England was the
main religion
Georgia
Year Founded
1733James Oglethorpe was
proprietor
Reason place for debtorsbuffer zone between Spain
OtherInfo
Did not originally allow slaveryGrew same crops as SC
Society – originally chartered as a penal colony but became a
plantation society that depended on slave labor
Practiced religious freedom
General Information
• All colonies developed their economies primarily because of geography
• The early colonists saw themselves as British
• They believed they had the same rights as all British people in England
•Congregational Church (Puritan) established educational institutions to train clergy
•All colonies had the right to elect a legislative assembly that had the power of the purse
•Trade developed because of the mercantalistic policies of England