Southern Colony Name Year Founded Maryland Virginia North

Southern Colony Name Year Founded Maryland ____ Virginia ____ North Carolina ____ South Carolina ____ Georgia ____ Leader/ Founder Colony Type (P/R) Religion(s)/ Beliefs Economy/ Crop(s) Reason for Settlement Misc.

Southern Colony Name Leader/ Founder Colony Type (P/R) Religion(s)/ Beliefs Economy/ Crop(s) Reason for Settlement Misc. Maryland __1634__ Lord Baltimore, George Calvert P Catholic Tobacco, Lumber, Fishing, Shipping Catholics could worship freely Act of Toleration Rep. Assembly Virginia __1607__ Virginia Co. P, J-S Co. , R in 1624 Church of England Tobacco Profit Starving time House of Burgess North Carolina Dissatisfied Virginians R in 1729 Various Rice, Tobacco, Plantations Profit Colonial Assembly, Poor, Not as much slavery 8 Nobles/ Charles II R Church of England Rice, Indigo, Plantations Profit Slavery James Oglethorpe R in 1752 Various Silk, Wine, Plantations Haven for debtors, Buffer zone Slavery Year Founded 1653, 1712 South Carolina 1663, 1712 Georgia __1732__

New England Colony Name Year Founded New Hampshire ______ Massachusetts ______ Connecticut ______ Rhode Island ______ Leader/ Founder Colony Type (P/R) Religion(s)/ Beliefs Economy/ Crop(s) Reason for Settlement Misc.

New England Colony Name Year Founded Leader/ Founder Colony Type (P/R) Religion(s)/ Beliefs Economy/ Crop(s) Reason for Settlement John Mason, R Puritan, Separatists Fur, Fishing, Shipbuilding, Lumber, Stone Religious Freedom R Puritan, Separatists Livestock, Fur, Fishing, Shipbuilding, Lumber Religious Freedom Mayflower Compact __1620, 1629__ William Bradford, John Winthrop R Connecticut Thomas Hooker Puritan, Separatists Fur, Fishing, Shipbuilding, Lumber Religious Freedom Fund. Orders, Fertile soil Roger Williams N/A Various, Dissenters Fur, Fishing, Shipbuilding, Lumber Religious Freedom “Sewer”, self governing New Hampshire __1623, 1679___ Massachusetts John Wheelwright Misc. _____1635_____ Rhode Island _____1636______

Middle Colony Name Year Founded New York _____ New Jersey _____ Pennsylvania _____ Delaware _____ Leader/ Founder Colony Type (P/R) Religion(s)/ Beliefs Economy/ Crop(s) Reason for Settlement Misc.

Middle Colony Name Year Founded Leader/ Founder Colony Type (P/R) Religion(s)/ Beliefs Economy/ Crop(s) Reason for Settlement Misc. Peter Stuyvesant (D), Duke of York (E) R Church of England Fur, Lumber Religious Freedom Stolen by British from Dutch R in 1702 Quaker Fur Religious Freedom Originally part of NY ____1664______ Lord Berkeley, Sir George Carteret P, R in 1681 Quaker Pennsylvania William Penn Fur, Lumber, Shipbuilding Religious Freedom 1 -house legislature Peter Minuit, New Sweden Co. P Quaker Fur Religious Freedom Stolen by D and E, Originally part of Penn. New York ____1664_____ New Jersey ____1682______ Delaware ___1638, 1701__