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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