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American Colonies

Colony

Roanoke

Founded

1585

Region Founder

Plymouth

Anglican

Southern

1620

1626 Middle

Massachusetts 1630 Bay

New John England Winthrop

New Hampshire

1 of 3

Peter Minuit

New York

1630

New John England Mason

Puritan

Corporate

None

Proprietary, then royal

Puritan

Corporate

Puritan

Corporate, then royal

Note Colonists disappeared without a trace.

Tobacco

Trade and profits

Founded as joint-stock company. House of Burgesses (1619). Only 60 of 1st 900 colonists survived.

Mixed Religious farmiing freedom for Separatists

Mayflower Compact. Led by William Bradford

Royal

John Smith

New William England Bradford

Economics

Establish English colony in New World

Sir Walter Southern Raleigh

1607

Virginia

R e l i g i o n Government Original Purpose

Trade and profits

Mixed Set up as farming, furs Dutch colony, taken over by English in 1664

Mixed Religious farming, freedom for fishing, Puritans shipbuilding

Led by John Winthrop. 18,000 settlers by 1642

Escape for Mixed those farming constricted by religious

Puritan harshness led these settlers north and inland.

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and economic rules

1634 Maryland

Middle

George Calvert

None Proprietary (Anglican after 1692)

1636 New Thomas England Hooker

Connecticut

1636 Rhode Island

New Roger England Williams

Puritan

Corporate

None

Corporate

None

Proprietary

Tobacco

Founded by George Calvert. Slow growing (only 600 by 1650. Maryland Toleration Act (1649)

Mixed farming

Leaders of Massachusetts asked Hooker and followers to leave.

Mixed farming

Williams set up most tolerant colony

Religious freedom for Catholics

Religious and economic freedom Religious freedom

1638 Delaware North Carolina

1653

Middle

Peter Minuit

Southern

Group of proprietors Anglican

Middle

Lord Berkeley

Southern

Group of proprietors Anglican

Proprietary

Trade and profits

1660 New Jersey South Carolina

1670

1682 Pennsylvania

Middle

None

Proprietary

Proprietary

None

Proprietary

Anglican

Royal

William Penn

Established by Sweden; taken by Dutch, then English.

Trade and profits.

Trade and profits Trade and profits

Rice

Joint business venture

Mixed farming

Established by Sweden; taken by English in 1664

Rice

Rice major crop.

Wheat, mixed Religious farming freedom for Quakers; trade and profits Rice

1733

Georgia

Southern

James Oglethorpe

Debtor colony.

Originally Quaker, this colony became home to many European immigrants Buffer for Spanish colonies Originally outlawed slavery and restricted size of land grants to 500 acres.

Based on several sources, including The American Journey by Goldfield

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