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Massachusetts
--people who wanted religious freedom
from King George and his Anglican
church
--Puritans – Protestants
--Separatists – Set up their own church
(Pilgrims)
--1620
--Founded by John Winthrop (Puritan)
--Boston
13 Colonies
New England Colonies
Connecticut
--Puritans had no religious
toleration (acceptance)
--Founded by Thomas Hooker
(Angry at Winthrop)
--Hartford
--1635
--First Constitution in America
13 Colonies
New England Colonies
Rhode Island
--Settled by people forced out of
Massachusetts
--Founded by Roger Williams
--1636
--Providence
--Practiced religious toleration
All faiths worshipped freely
13 Colonies
New England Colonies
New Hampshire
--Settlers from
Massachusetts
--John Wheelwright
--1638
--Portsmouth
--Religious Toleration
13 Colonies
New England Colonies
New York -
--Originally occupied by Dutch
(New Netherland)
--New Amsterdam (New York City)
--Great Harbor
--King Charles gave to his brother
(Duke of York)
--Jewish population
--1624
Middle Colonies
Middle Colonies
New Jersey -
--Lord John Berkeley and George
Carteret
--Offered land
--Freedom of religion
--Trial by Jury
--1638
Delaware -
--Established by people from
Pennsylvania
--Expand Trade
--1638
--Religious and culturally
diversity
--Dover
Middle Colonies
Pennsylvania -
--William Penn
--Quaker (society of friends)-
everyone is equal
Pacifist (refused to use
force or fight)
--Philadelphia (Brotherly Love)
--1682
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
Maryland -
--Lord Baltimore and George
Calvert
--Catholics
--Tobacco, corn, wheat, fruit
--Baltimore
--1634
--Mason-Dixon Line
Argued over boundary
Southern Colonies
Virginia -
--First Established Colony
--Virginia Company of London
--Jamestown
--1607
--Captain John Smith
--Gold, riches, trade
--Slavery first made law in 1660
--Tobacco
Southern Colonies
North Carolina –
--Charles Land
--8 Prominent members
--Selling and renting land
--Wilmington
--1660
--Farmers from Virginia
Southern Colonies
South Carolina –
--Charles Town
--8 Prominent members
--Good Harbor
--Rice
--Indigo
--More than half were slaves
Southern Colonies
Georgia -
--1733
--James Oglethorpe
--Debtors, poor people, prisoners
--Protection from Spanish Florida
--Savannah
--Most lived in small, well
organized towns
--Small farms because the soil
was rocky
--Small businesses
--lumber, clothing, candles,
soap, blacksmiths, shoemakers,
gunsmiths, furniture
New England Colonies Way of life
New England Colonies Way of life
--Shipbuilding was very important
--Water linked all colonies together and to the rest of the world
--Triangular Trade Route
--Sugar and molasses from the West Indies to New England
--New England turned the molasses into Rum and traded it with Africa
--Africa sold slaves
--Middle Passage
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Colonial spinning wheel
--Medium sized farms
--Wheat
--Livestock was shipped out
(very busy ports)
--Some small businesses
--Culturally diverse
Middle Colonies
Way of Life
Southern Colonies
Way of Life
-- Very big farms (Plantations)
--Tobacco and Rice
--No cities
--London controlled trade
--Navigation Acts – made sure only Great Britain
profited from the colonies
--smuggling (trading illegally)
--Slave codes (strict rules)
--could not leave plantation
--could not teach slaves to read and
write
--slaves could be whipped or burned to death
Section 2-
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__ 1. the acceptance of different beliefs
__ 2. to treat someone harshly because of that person’s beliefs or practices
__ 3. Protestants who, during the 1600s, wanted to reform the Anglican Church
__ 4. cash crop in many colonies, including Virginia
__ 5. Separatists who journeyed to the colonies during the 1600s for a religious purpose
A. tobacco
B. persecute
C. Pilgrims
D. Puritans
E. toleration
Define Match the terms on the right with their definitions on the left.
E
B
D
A
C