Founders & Reasons for founding
Which colony was founded as a place for English debtors?
Georgia
Which was the first successful permanent colony of settlers in Nothern America and on what year did they settle there?
Jamestown, Virginia
This crop made Jamestown profitable
Tobacco
The Puritans wanted to do this to the Church of England
Purify it: remove catholic practices from it
Colonies like Virginia and the Carolinas depended heavily on this labor system
Slavery
William Penn founded this colony for Quakers.
Pennsylvania
The Pilgrims landed here in 1620
Plymouth, Massachusetts
The Middle Colonies were called what and why?
The “Breadbasket Colonies” because they grew lots of wheat/grain
Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded mainly for this reason
Religious freedom (specifically Puritan community)
Georgia helped protect the English colonies from this European power in Florida
From the Spanish
Roger Williams founded this colony for religious freedom after being banished from Massachusetts
Rhode Island
New York was originally called this when it was controlled by the Dutch
New Amsterdam
New England colonies made money by fishing, trading, and this industry
Shipbuilding
Maryland passed the Toleration Act to protect this group
Christians
Pennsylvania welcomed many cultures because of its founder’s beliefs. What was his name?
William Penn
This colony was started as a safe place for Catholics by Lord Baltimore
Maryland
The Mayflower Compact (1620) was an early example of this
Self-government
This colony became wealthy growing this blue dye plant
South Carolina, indigo
Rhode Island and Pennsylvania were known for this social quality
Religious tolerance
This colony eventually split into two colonies because of differences in economy and population
North Carolina and South Carolina
Name all the 13 colonies
Virginia, Massachusetts, Maryland, Delaware, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, North Carolini, South Carolina, Georgia
What are Crown colonies, Proprietary colonies, and Charter colonies?
1.English colonies in America that could be ruled directly by the King. 2. Colonies whose property was granted to individuals who governed them. 3. Colony governed by elected colonists under a charter
This Southern colony became known for large rice plantations and Charleston as a major port
South Carolina
Wealthy landowners who controlled society in the Southern colonies were called this
Plantation elites / planters
This boundary line, drawn in the 1760s between Pennsylvania and Maryland, later became a symbolic dividing line between the Northern and Southern states
Mason-Dixon Line