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Thirteen Colonies Assignment

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. 1. Virginia (1607).

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Thirteen Colonies Assignment

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  1. Thirteen Colonies Assignment

  2. 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?

  3. Timeline

  4. 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

  5. 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)

  6. 3. New Hampshire (1623) • Potatoes, fishing, shipbuilding • Founded by John Wheelwright • Religious freedom, disagreement with other Puritans • Anne Hutchinson

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 7. Delaware (1638) • Founded by Peter Minuit • Named after early governor De la Warr • Agriculture

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

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