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1. Colony Review The Thirteen English Colonies
2. Virginia Founding of Jamestown (1607)
Joint-stock London Company
Charter from King James I
Too many gentlemen
John Smith takes charge
New settlers reinforce in 1610
3. Virginia Tobacco Cultivation
John Rolfe cultivates West Indies species in Virginia ? good cash crop
Virginia Company grants 50 acres to each new settler
4. Virginia Survival Assured
Virginia company goes bankrupt
1200 settlers in 1624, becomes a royal colony
5. Massachusetts Plymouth (1620)
Protestant pilgrims, persecuted by Anglicans, sail for new world on Mayflower
Blown off course, land at Plymouth
William Bradford leads colony to survival, with help of natives
Later absorbed by Massachusetts Bay Colony
6. Massachusetts Massachusetts Bay (1630)
Puritans organized by Massachusetts Bay Company, gain charter from Charles I
Led by John Winthrop, 1000 settle in Massachusetts, mostly at Salem, Cambridge, Boston
Puritans continue to move there, 20,000 strong by 1640
Colonial government pro-puritan, anti-dissent
7. Rhode Island (1636) Roger Williams, Salem minister, challenges Puritan rule
Expelled in 1635, founds Providence, Rhode Island
Anne Hutchinson goes to Rhode Island
1644 government permits religious freedom, separation of church and state
8. Connecticut (1636) Thomas Hooker, Cambridge pastor, led congregation to settle Hartford, Connecticut; not religious dissenters, wanted better lands
Received a royal charter 1662
9. New Hampshire (1638) Settled by Massachusetts colonists leaving for political, religious, economic reasons
Under control of Massachusetts but gained royal charter in 1679
10. Maryland (1638) George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore, a Catholic convert, gained a grant to settle here
Called a propriety colony, as it belongs to an owner
Calverts son brought first settlers there in 1634
Freedom of religion ? Catholics & Protestants
Tobacco farmers
11. The Carolinas (1663) Propriety colonies
North settled by Virginians
South settled by other Brits and Europeans
Raised rice, indigo, tar & pitch, traded furs
Settlers opposed propriety, gained royal charters
12. New York (1664) English seize New Netherland, King Charles assigns it to James, the Duke of York
Renamed New York, Dutch retain land, language, rights, legislative assembly
Becomes royal colony when James becomes king 1685
13. New Jersey (1664) James granted area between Hudson &Delaware Rivers to friends Lord John Berkeley & Sir George Carteret
Already had some Dutch and Swedish settlements
Propriety sold to Quakers, but later became royal colony 1702
14. Pennsylvania (1681) William Penn received charter in return for debt owed him by Charles II
Penn founds it for business and place for Society of Friends
Quakers no formal organization, humility, hard work, charity, brotherly love (? Philadelphia), pacifists
15. Pennsylvania (1681) Religious freedom, popularly elected legislature, fertile land, fair treatment of natives
Attracted many British, German and Swiss Quakers, Mennonites, Amish
16. Delaware (1682) William Penn received grant to Delaware, but Swedish and Dutch already there wanted self rule ? Penn grants them own assembly
17. Georgia (1732) Philanthropist James Oglethorpe secures charter from George II
Outpost against Spanish Florida & home to debtors
Developed large plantations employing slave labor
Became royal colony 1752