Thirteen Colonies Assignment

Find the following information for your

colony• Who founded your colony?• For what purpose was it founded?• What did the colony grow or produce?• Name one important person from your

colony. Why was that person important?

Timeline

Virginia (1607) Massachusetts (1620)

New Hampshire (1623)

Maryland (1623) Connecticut (1635) Rhode Island (1635)

Delaware (1638) North Carolina (1653)

South Carolina (1663)

New Jersey (1664) New York (1664) Pennsylvania (1682)

Georgia (1732)

1. Virginia (1607)

• Founded by Virginia company, named after Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen (Sir Walter Raleigh)

• Became royal colony• Tobacco – important cash crop• Led by Captain John Smith

2. Massachusetts (1620)

• Pilgrims (founders) and Puritans• Better climate than Virginia’s• Seeking religious freedom• Corn, fishing, shipbuilding• John Winthrop (Massachusetts Bay) and

William Bradford (Plymouth)

3. New Hampshire (1623)

• Potatoes, fishing, shipbuilding• Founded by John Wheelwright • Religious freedom, disagreement with other

Puritans• Anne Hutchinson

4. Maryland (1634)

• Founded for English Catholics by Lord Baltimore

• Named after Queen Henrietta Maria of England

• Shipbuilding, corn, wheat, tobacco• First colony given to an individual, not a

company

5. Connecticut (1635)

• Founded by Thomas Hooker• Wheat, corn, fishing• Founded by Puritans seeking better land

and access to the fur trade• Self-governing colony, established

Fundamental Orders

6. Rhode Island (1636)• Founded by Roger Williams – believed true

church must have no relations with government

Critical Thinking: How did this help to influence American history?

• Agriculture, fishing, livestock• Dutch word for “Red” is “Rhode”• Become a place for people who believed

government had no place in religion

7. Delaware (1638)

• Founded by Peter Minuit• Named after early governor De la Warr• Agriculture

8. North Carolina (1653)

• Named after King Charles (Carolus is the Latin word for Charles)

• Plantation agriculture—tobacco, rice• Founded by Virginia colonists seeking better

land• Planters had huge land grants; some

brought slaves from Barbados and indentured servants

9. South Carolina (1663)

• Named after King Charles (Carolus is the Latin word for Charles)

• Plantation agriculture—tobacco, rice• Founded by English colonists seeking better

land• Planters had huge land grants; some

brought slaves from Barbados and indentured servants

10. New Jersey (1664)

• Founded by English colonists• Manufacturing • Land given by Duke of York to George

Carteret and John Berkeley, named after Carteret’s birthplace Jersey.

• Many Dutch, Quakers, and Puritans

11. New York (1664)

• Manufacturing, agriculture• Started as New Netherlands, a Dutch colony• Peter Minuit originally purchased New York

from Indians• Wall Street – name given by Dutch for old

protection wall• England won from the Dutch

12. Pennsylvania (1682)

• Founded by William Penn, Quakers• Wheat, corn, papermaking• Land given to Penn by King Charles• Encourage all faiths to come, had elected

assembly• Treated Indians well – good relations• Purchased land from Indians

13. Georgia (1732)

• Philanthropic experiment – provide land to the poor

• Named after England’s King George• Rice, sugar, indigo• Founded by James Oglethorpe• Many groups: Scots, Germans, Jews • Rice, lumber, beef, pork