Massachusetts

--people who wanted religious freedom

from King George and his Anglican

church

--Puritans – Protestants

--Separatists – Set up their own church

(Pilgrims)

--1620

--Founded by John Winthrop (Puritan)

--Boston

13 Colonies

New England Colonies

Connecticut

--Puritans had no religious

toleration (acceptance)

--Founded by Thomas Hooker

(Angry at Winthrop)

--Hartford

--1635

--First Constitution in America

13 Colonies

New England Colonies

Rhode Island

--Settled by people forced out of

Massachusetts

--Founded by Roger Williams

--1636

--Providence

--Practiced religious toleration

All faiths worshipped freely

13 Colonies

New England Colonies

New Hampshire

--Settlers from

Massachusetts

--John Wheelwright

--1638

--Portsmouth

--Religious Toleration

13 Colonies

New England Colonies

New York -

--Originally occupied by Dutch

(New Netherland)

--New Amsterdam (New York City)

--Great Harbor

--King Charles gave to his brother

(Duke of York)

--Jewish population

--1624

Middle Colonies

Middle Colonies

New Jersey -

--Lord John Berkeley and George

Carteret

--Offered land

--Freedom of religion

--Trial by Jury

--1638

Delaware -

--Established by people from

Pennsylvania

--Expand Trade

--1638

--Religious and culturally

diversity

--Dover

Middle Colonies

Pennsylvania -

--William Penn

--Quaker (society of friends)-

everyone is equal

Pacifist (refused to use

force or fight)

--Philadelphia (Brotherly Love)

--1682

Middle Colonies

Southern Colonies

Maryland -

--Lord Baltimore and George

Calvert

--Catholics

--Tobacco, corn, wheat, fruit

--Baltimore

--1634

--Mason-Dixon Line

Argued over boundary

Southern Colonies

Virginia -

--First Established Colony

--Virginia Company of London

--Jamestown

--1607

--Captain John Smith

--Gold, riches, trade

--Slavery first made law in 1660

--Tobacco

Southern Colonies

North Carolina –

--Charles Land

--8 Prominent members

--Selling and renting land

--Wilmington

--1660

--Farmers from Virginia

Southern Colonies

South Carolina –

--Charles Town

--8 Prominent members

--Good Harbor

--Rice

--Indigo

--More than half were slaves

Southern Colonies

Georgia -

--1733

--James Oglethorpe

--Debtors, poor people, prisoners

--Protection from Spanish Florida

--Savannah

--Most lived in small, well

organized towns

--Small farms because the soil

was rocky

--Small businesses

--lumber, clothing, candles,

soap, blacksmiths, shoemakers,

gunsmiths, furniture

New England Colonies Way of life

New England Colonies Way of life

--Shipbuilding was very important

--Water linked all colonies together and to the rest of the world

--Triangular Trade Route

--Sugar and molasses from the West Indies to New England

--New England turned the molasses into Rum and traded it with Africa

--Africa sold slaves

--Middle Passage

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Colonial spinning wheel

--Medium sized farms

--Wheat

--Livestock was shipped out

(very busy ports)

--Some small businesses

--Culturally diverse

Middle Colonies

Way of Life

Southern Colonies

Way of Life

-- Very big farms (Plantations)

--Tobacco and Rice

--No cities

--London controlled trade

--Navigation Acts – made sure only Great Britain

profited from the colonies

--smuggling (trading illegally)

--Slave codes (strict rules)

--could not leave plantation

--could not teach slaves to read and

write

--slaves could be whipped or burned to death

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__ 1. the acceptance of different beliefs

__ 2. to treat someone harshly because of that person’s beliefs or practices

__ 3. Protestants who, during the 1600s, wanted to reform the Anglican Church

__ 4. cash crop in many colonies, including Virginia

__ 5. Separatists who journeyed to the colonies during the 1600s for a religious purpose

A. tobacco

B. persecute

C. Pilgrims

D. Puritans

E. toleration

Define Match the terms on the right with their definitions on the left.

E

B

D

A

C