The Later

English

Colonies

Mr. HeathBlue Creek Elementary School

January 2013

Maryland • Founded for religious

freedom by George Calvert

• To find out more about George Calvert, click on his name.

• Passed a law of religious tolerance that allowed people of any religion to live in Maryland

• Grew tobacco and traded furs

George Calvert • George Calvert

converted to Catholicism• Catholics were

persecuted in England • King Charles granted

Calvert permission to start Maryland.

• George Calvert died before he could start the colony

• His son, Cecilius Calvert, became leader of Maryland.

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The Carolinas• Originally included what

is today North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia

• Owned by the eight noblemen called the Lords Proprietors

• Received the grant from King Charles II in 1663

• Settled by people from Virginia, England, France, Germany, and Switzerland

Northern Carolina • Most important products• Tobacco• Naval Stores—tar,

turpentine, pitch

Southern Carolina• Top Products• Rice and Indigo

Indigo was used to make blue dye for clothes.

New York • Located at the mouth

of the Hudson River• Founded by the Dutch• City of New

Amsterdam named after the capital of the Netherlands (Holland)

• New Amsterdam taken by England during war with the Dutch in the 1650s

New Amsterdam (Part of New

Holland)

New York • King Charles II gave New

Amsterdam to his brother, James, the Duke of York.

• Renamed New York • James later became King

James II of England

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New Jersey• James, Duke of York

divided New York and created the new colony of New Jersey.

• Gave New Jersey to Lord Berkeley and Sir George Calvert

New York

Pennsylvania New Jersey

Pennsylvania

Started by William Penn in the 1680s

Pennsylvania William Penn

• Wanted to be free to follow his faith

• Well educated • Became a Quaker• Persecuted for his

faith• Founded Pennsylvania

(“Penn’s Woods) • Became a haven* for

many religions

*haven = safe place

Pennsylvania Quakers

• Believed that everyone was equal in God’s site

• Believed that Christians did not need the church of England, its ministers, or ceremonies

• Refused to pay taxes for the church

• Refused to serve in the military

• Opposed slavery• Wanted fair treatment

for Native Americans

Delaware • Pennsylvania included

the land south of New Jersey and east of Maryland

• Known as New Sweden

• Settlers of New Sweden wanted to rule themselves

• William Penn granted them self-rule

• Became the colony of Delaware

Georgia • Last of the original 13

colonies • Founded by James

Otlethorpe • Wanted Georgia to be a

place for poor people to have a better life

• Haven for debt prisoners • Strict rules to make poor

people work • Rum illegal • Slavery outlawed (at

first)