Southern Colonies

Southern Colonies

Colony Name / Founder/Religion / Year / Purpose / Geography/Climate / Economy
Virginia / Cpt. John Smith / 1607 / Trade & Profit
Economics / Fertile land,
Long Growing Season, warm / Cash Crops –
Tobacco
Maryland / Lord Baltimore
George Calvert
Catholics / 1634 / Refuge for Catholics
(Safe place) / Fertile land,
Long Growing Season, warm / Cash Crops-
Tobacco
Sassafras
North Carolina / Group of 7 Proprietors
(owner) / 1653 / Economics:
Trade and Profit / Fertile land,
Long Growing Season, warm / Cash Crops-
Tobacco
South Carolina / Group of 7 Proprietors / 1663 / Economics:
Trade and Profit / Fertile land,
Long Growing Season, warm / Cash Crops-
Tobacco
Indigo
Georgia / James Oglethorpe / 1733 / Debtors (Poor People who could not pay what they owed)
Buffer from Spanish Florida / Fertile land,
Long Growing Season, warm / Cash Crops-
Indigo
Rice

Middle Colonies

Colony Name / Founder/Religion / Year / Governance / Geography/Climate / Economy
New York / Peter Minuit/Dutch
Trade and profit / 1626
1664 the English take them over / Flat land, fertile soil, swift rivers, wide valleys / Farming, especially grains, STAPLE CROPS, livestock, trading, mining, craftsmen(cottage industries)
New Jersey / Sweden: Lord Berkeley
Trade and profit / 1660
1664 the English take them over / Flat land, fertile soil, swift rivers, wide valleys / Farming, especially grains, STAPLE CROPS, livestock, trading, mining, craftsmen(cottage industries)
Delaware / Sweden
Trade and profit / 1638
1664 the English take them over / Flat land, fertile soil, swift rivers, wide valleys / Farming, especially grains, STAPLE CROPS, livestock, trading, mining, craftsmen(cottage industries)
Pennsylvania / William Penn/ Freedom for Quakers: (pacifist &
all men are equal)
Refuge for Quakers / 1682 / Flat land, fertile soil, swift rivers, wide valleys / Farming, especially grains, STAPLE CROPS, livestock, trading, mining, craftsmen(cottage industries)

New England Colonies

Colony Name / Founder/Religion / Year / Purpose/Governance / Geography/Climate / Economy
Massachusetts
(Plymouth) / John Winthrop
William Bradford
/Puritans
Religious freedom( for themselves, government tied to church) / 1620 / Mayflower Compact – 1st Self Government = “A Civil Body Politick”
Puritan Town Hall Meetings / Rocky Soil
Short Growing Season
Heavily Wooded
Cold
Swift Rivers / Subsistence Farming – Growing only enough to feed you and your family
Whaling, Fishing, Lumber,
Shipbuilding, & Trade
Connecticut / Thomas Hooker
Puritan
(Left Massachusetts because of the theocracy)
Religious & Political Freedom / 1635 / Fundamental Orders of Connecticut – Separated Church and State (Non – church members could vote) / Rocky Soil
Short Growing Season
Heavily Wooded
Cold
Swift Rivers / Subsistence Farming – Growing only enough to feed you and your family
Whaling, Fishing, Lumber,
Shipbuilding, & Trade
Rhode Island / Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
Puritan (Thrown out of Massachusetts because they disagreed about religious doctrine)
Religious Freedom / 1636 / Rocky Soil
Short Growing Season
Heavily Wooded
Cold
Swift Rivers / Subsistence Farming – Growing only enough to feed you and your family
Whaling, Fishing, Lumber,
Shipbuilding, & Trade
New Hampshire / John Mason
Puritan
Religious Freedom / 1623
(Was part of Massachusetts until 1791) / Rocky Soil
Short Growing Season
Heavily Wooded
Cold
Swift Rivers / Subsistence Farming – Growing only enough to feed you and your family
Whaling, Fishing, Lumber,
Shipbuilding, & Trade