The Original 13 Colonies Life and Work in the Colonies.
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The The Original Original
13 13 ColoniesColonies
Life and Work in the
Colonies
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New EnglandNew EnglandColonies
–Maine–New Hampshire–Connecticut–Rhode Island–Massachusetts
PlymouthMassachusetts Bay
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MassachusettsMassachusetts Plymouth
Pilgrims1620Leader: William Bradford– Mayflower Compact
First Document of Democracy in North America
Massachusetts Bay (more prosperous than Pilgrims)
1630s– John Winthrop– Massachusetts School
LawHarvard
Joined together to become the colony of Massachusetts in 1691
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Rhode Island and Rhode Island and ConnecticutConnecticut
Rhode Island Roger Williams
questioned Puritan leaders & was kicked out
Roger Williams bought land from Indians
Separation of Church and State
Connecticut Founded by Thomas
Hooker (left Mass. Bay) Fundamental Orders of
Connecticut First written
constitution in the Colonies
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Making Money in New Making Money in New EnglandEngland
Rocky Soil, Lots of TreesNot much Farming
– No need for slaves or indentured servantsDepended on shipping and
ship building– Good port = Boston– Lots of lumber for ships
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The Middle ColoniesThe Middle ColoniesColonies
New YorkFormerly New
NetherlandsFounded by Dutch
New JerseyPennsylvania Delaware
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New YorkNew York New York
– Formerly New Netherlands (1621)
– England took Dutch colony w/out a fight: 1664 - Named after King Charles’ brother – the Duke of York (proprietary colony)
– New Jersey given to two of the Duke’s friends
– Great Port – NYC – will become the busiest port in the US
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PennsylvaniaPennsylvaniaPennsylvania
– Quaker Colony founded by William Penn (1680s)
– Penn set up Philadelphia – the city of Brotherly Love
– Good relationship with the Indians
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Making Money in the Middle Making Money in the Middle ColoniesColonies
“bread basket” of the coloniesGrew food – grains and veggiesLarge estates and family farms
– Lots of jobsSlavery was prohibited in this sectionPhiladelphia was a good port for trade
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The Southern ColoniesThe Southern ColoniesColonies
–Virginia–Maryland–Carolinas–Georgia
Buffer between the Carolinas and Spanish owned Florida
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VirginiaVirginia Jamestown - 1607
– First North American colony– Founded by a joint stock company
(Virginia Co.) whose sole purpose was to make money for its investors.
– John Smith = leader of colony– John Rolfe discovered strain of
tobacco in Jamestown that could be sold to British
– Slaves first arrived in 1619 but were not legally slaves until the 1660s … more like indentured servants.
Virginia– House of
BurgessesFirst colonial
assemblyHoused in
Williamsburg
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MarylandMarylandSet up by Lord Baltimore – Colony
for CatholicsGrew tobaccoProtestants also moved inMaryland Act of Toleration
–First law dealing with religious freedom in the colonies
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Making Money in the Making Money in the Southern ColoniesSouthern Colonies
Plantation Agriculture – Cash Crops–Tobacco–Rice and Indigo
Labor provided by indentured servants and then by slaves (1660s)
Trade out of Jamestown, VA and Charleston, SC