Thirteen Colonies

New Jersey

• 1660 (Dutch) 1664 (English)

• Financial: Began as a group of small trading communities near present day Hoboken and Jersey City.

• From 1676-1702 it was split up into two colonies, act and West Jersey

Rhode Island

• 1636

• Religious disagreements with the leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony - Roger Williams felt there should be separation of church and state, and felt Native Americans should be paid for their land

• Roger Williams purchased the land from the Narragansett

  
  

Deleware

• 1631/1664/1704

• Delaware’s history is too convoluted to fit neatly in this chart.

North Carolina

• 1663/1712

• Economic - people migrated out of Virginia and into the land that became Province of Carolina- wanted to grow sugar and cotton

• 598: Roanoke was the first failed attempt at colonizing in North Carolina

• Province of Carolina split into North and South in 1712

  
  

South Carolina

• 1663/1712

• Economic - people migrated out of Virginia and into the land that became Province of Carolina- wanted to grow sugar and cotton

New Hampshire

• 1679

• Economic: For 50 years, it was a fishing region governed by Massachusetts, but the independent minded New Hampshire residents kept fighting with MA gov’t, so NH finally made separate colony in 1679

• Its location meant it was on the frontier between the French colonies to the north and the rest of the English colonies to the south.  As a result, many  military conflicts were fought in New Hampshire - with the French and the Native Americans

Virginia

• 1607

• Economic- The Virginia company of London was hoping to find gold and to generate wealth from an untapped source and funded the project

• When John Smith left, there was no one to make them work. The settlers were so concerned with finding gold they forgot to cultivate food for themselves and starved.

  
  

New York

• 1609

• Economics-  Peter Minuit traded jewelry for Manhattan island, which later became New Amsterdam.

• King Charles II gave the land to his brother, Duke of York before owning it and  Governor Stuyvesant surrendered new netherland, causing it to become new york.

Massachusetts Bay colony

• 1630

• Religious- The people on the boats headed to Massachusetts were supposed to be an example for the rest of England. They were Puritans attempting to show the right way of living

• City on a hill was John Winthrop's way of saying that they would be in the eyes of all of England and had to show the rest of the world what they thought the true path was.

Maryland

• 1634

• Economics/Religious- Catholicism was a persecuted minority and Lord Baltimore wanted to have land for them to be able to practice their religion. He also was aware of the profit that would gain him.

• The Maryland act of toleration, passed in 1649 allowed religious freedom to all Christians, until pushback from Protestants

Connecticut

• 1636

• Religious- While Thomos Hooker had no problem with the religious teachings, he did not agree with linking voting with the church membership and seeked to separate them.

• The fundamental orders of Connecticut meant an elected governor and a two house legislature. It also served as an example for other colonial charters

Pennsylvania

• 1681

• Economic/Religious- They wanted both to help relieve dept and to have religious freedom

• The Quakers were pacifists, which means the opposed war and violence as the solution to a problem. They also refused to fund it by not paying their taxes and they never fought in any of England's wars.

Georgia

• 1733

• Economics- James Olgethrope and a group of investors used people imprisoned for debt for their experiment.

• -They couldn't own slaves

  -They couldn't have alcohol 

  -They couldn't sell or trade their land 

• King George wasn’t concerned with the idea until it was pointed out that this could serve as protection from the Spanish Florida