SouthernColony NameYear Founded

Leader/Founder

Colony Type (P/R)

Religion(s)/Beliefs

Economy/Crop(s)

Reason for Settlement

Misc.

Maryland

________

Virginia

________

North Carolina________

SouthCarolina

________

Georgia

________

SouthernColony Name

Year Founded

Leader/Founder

Colony Type (P/R)

Religion(s)/Beliefs

Economy/Crop(s)

Reason for Settlement

Misc.

Maryland__1634__

LordBaltimore,

George Calvert

P Catholic Tobacco, Lumber, Fishing, Shipping

Catholics could worship freely

Act of Toleration

Rep. Assembly

Virginia__1607__

Virginia Co.

P, J-S Co.,

R in 1624

Church of England

Tobacco Profit Starving time

House of Burgess

North Carolina

1653, 1712

Dissatisfied Virginians

R in 1729

Various Rice, Tobacco,Plantations

Profit Colonial Assembly,

Poor,Not as much

slavery

SouthCarolina

1663, 1712

8 Nobles/Charles II

R Church of England

Rice, Indigo, Plantations

Profit Slavery

Georgia__1732__

JamesOglethorpe

R in 1752

Various Silk, Wine, Plantations

Haven for debtors, Buffer

zone

Slavery

New EnglandColony NameYear Founded

Leader/Founder

Colony Type (P/R)

Religion(s)/Beliefs

Economy/Crop(s)

Reason for Settlement

Misc.

New Hampshire

____________

Massachusetts

____________

Connecticut

____________

Rhode Island

____________

New EnglandColony NameYear Founded

Leader/Founder

Colony Type (P/R)

Religion(s)/Beliefs

Economy/Crop(s)

Reason for Settlement

Misc.

New Hampshire

__1623, 1679___

John Mason,

John Wheelwright

R Puritan, Separatists

Fur, Fishing, Shipbuilding,

Lumber, Stone

Religious Freedom

Massachusetts

__1620, 1629__

William Bradford,

John Winthrop

R Puritan, Separatists

Livestock, Fur, Fishing, Shipbuilding,

Lumber

Religious Freedom

Mayflower Compact

Connecticut

_____1635_____

ThomasHooker

R Puritan, Separatists

Fur, Fishing, Shipbuilding,

Lumber

Religious Freedom

Fund. Orders,

Fertile soil

Rhode Island

_____1636______

Roger Williams

N/A Various, Dissenters Fur, Fishing, Shipbuilding,

Lumber

Religious Freedom

“Sewer”, self -

governing

MiddleColony NameYear Founded

Leader/Founder

Colony Type (P/R)

Religion(s)/Beliefs

Economy/Crop(s)

Reason for Settlement

Misc.

New York

_________

New Jersey

__________

Pennsylvania

__________

Delaware

__________

MiddleColony NameYear Founded

Leader/Founder

Colony Type (P/R)

Religion(s)/Beliefs

Economy/Crop(s)

Reason for Settlement

Misc.

New York

____1664_____

Peter Stuyvesant (D), Duke

of York (E)

R Church of England

Fur, Lumber ReligiousFreedom

Stolen by British from

Dutch

New Jersey

____1664______

Lord Berkeley,

Sir George Carteret

R in 1702

Quaker Fur ReligiousFreedom

Originally part of

NY

Pennsylvania

____1682______

William Penn

P, R in 1681

Quaker Fur, Lumber, Shipbuilding

Religious Freedom

1-house legislature

Delaware

___1638, 1701__

Peter Minuit,

New Sweden Co.

P Quaker Fur Religious Freedom

Stolen by D and E,

Originally part of Penn.