About the Massachusetts Colony...
1. The first settlement in Massachusetts was Plymouth, founded in 1620.
2. The Pilgrims established the Mayflower Compact, which among other things, outlined the rules for the colony.
3. In 1629, the Pilgrims founded another colony called the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
About the Massachusetts Colony...
1. The Pilgrims were dependent on the local native peoples to help them for survival.
2. The Puritan settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony were open to people of different religions.
3. Only about half of the original Mayflower passengers survived.
About the Rhode Island Colony...
1. Unlike the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Rhode Island was founded as a place for people of all religions.
2. The charter for Rhode Island was granted by the King, rather than by the local native peoples.
3. America's oldest Baptist church, and second oldest synogauge were founded in Rhode Island.
About the New Hampshire Colony...
1. In 1698, New Hampshire became a colony seperate from Massachusetts.
2. For some of its history, New Hampshire was called the Upper Province of Massachusetts.
3. The first settlement in New Hampshire was Portsmouth.
About the Connecticut Colony...
1. Its first English settlers were Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
2. The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut is sometimes considered America's first Declaration of Independence.
3. John Haynes was Connecticut's first Governor.
About the New York Colony...
1. The area that is now New York was explored by Henry Hudson, Samuel de Champlain, and Giovanni da Verrazzano.
2. The first settlement in what is now New York was called New Netherland.
3. New York was originally claimed by the English, but in 1664, it was taken over by the Dutch.
About the New York Colony...
1. New York would become New Amsterdam.
2. Puritans began migrating to the area that is now New York in the 1630s and 1640s.
3. The area that is now New York was said to have been purchased for $24 worth of trinkets.
About the Pennsylvania Colony...
1. In the land that is now Pennsylvania, the Swedes displaced the Dutch. The Dutch, in turn, were eventually displaced by the British.
2. Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn, who established it as a refuge for Quakers, and for religious freedom.
3. Philadelphia would grow into one of the most important cities in all of the 13 colonies.
About the Delaware Colony...
1. The area that is now Delaware caused conflict between the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland
2. Fort Christina was the first settlement in what is now Delaware.
3. In 1776, Delaware established a government independent from Maryland.
About the Maryland Colony...
1. Tobacco would eventually become Maryland's cash crop.
2. It was one of the few British territories to be mostly Catholic.
3. Maryland's 1649 Religious Toleration Act granted freedom to all religious groups.
About the Virginia Colony...
1. In 1698, Virginia's original settlement - Jamestown - was made capital of Virginia.
2. Settlers to Jamestown arrived on one of three ships: The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery
3. John Rolfe established the colony's cash crop - a new type of Tobacco in 1614.
About the Virginia Colony...
1. In 1619, the House of Burgesses, often called America's first representatitve government, met for the first time.
2. Middle Plantation was largely ruined during Bacon's Rebellion in 1767.
3. Eventually, the colony's capital was moved away from Jamestown, because the area was plagued with mosquitoes and had poor drinking water.
About the North Carolina Colony...
1. Roanoke Island was the frist permanent English settlement in North Carolina.
2. Virginia Dare became the first English child born in the New World at Roanoke Island in 1587.
3. By 1590, the colonists from Roanoke had completely disappeared.
About the South Carolina Colony...
1. The land that is now North and South Carolina was granted to a group of noblemen known as the Lords Proprietors.
2. North and South Carolina became seperate colonies in 1792.
3. France, England, and Spain had all attempted to settle the area that is now South Carolina.
About the Georgia Colony...
1. Georgia was named after the King of England.
2. It was founded as a refuge for England's poor people and debtors.
3. Georgia was one of the first colonies settled in the New World