13 Colonies

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13 Colonies
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Colonists disappeared without a trace.
Establish English colony in New World
Sir Walter Raleigh
Roanoke
Southern
1585
Founded as joint-stock company. House of
Burgesses (1619). Only 60 of 900 colonists
survived.
John Smith
Virginia
Southern
1607
Trade and profits
Set up as Dutch colony, taken over by English in
1664
Peter Minuit
New York
Middle
Trade and profits
1624
Led by John Winthrop. 18,000 settlers by 1642
New England
John Winthrop
Massachusetts
Religious freedom for Puritans
1620
Puritan harshness led these settlers north and
inland.
Escape for those constricted by religious and
economic rules
New England
John Mason
New Hampshire
1622
George Calvert
Founded by George Calvert. Slow growing (only 600
by 1650. Maryland Toleration Act (1649)
Religious freedom for Catholics
1634
Maryland
Middle
Leaders of Massachusetts asked Hooker and
followers to leave.
New England
Thomas Hooker
Religious and economic freedom
1635
Connecticut
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Rhode Island
New England
Roger Williams
Williams set up the most tolerant colony
Religious freedom
1636
Established by Sweden taken by English in 1664
Peter Minuit
1638
Trade and profits
Delaware
Middle
North Carolina
Group of proprietors
Joint business venture
1653
Trade and profits
Southern
Lord Berkeley
Established by Sweden taken by English in 1664
1618
New Jersey
Middle
Trade and profits
1670
South Carolina
Group of proprietors
Trade and profits
Rice major crop
Southern
Originally Quaker, this colony became home to
many European immigrants
Religious freedom for Quakers trade and profits
1623
William Penn
Middle
Pennsylvania
Buffer for Spanish colonies Restrictions on
blacks, size of plantations kept colony small.
James Oglethorpe
1733
Georgia
Southern
Debtor Colony
4
1622
1634
1635
5
1653
1618
1670
1623
1733