APUSH 13 colonies characteristics

Virginia (VA)

Founded: 1607

Type of Colony: Joint-Stock, Royal company

Founder: John Smith/ John Rolfe

Dominant Religion: Anglicans

Purpose: to make money

Economy Emphasis: Tobacco

Extra:1619: House of Burgesses Representative Gov.

Massachusetts (MA)

Founded: Plymouth 1620, MBC- 1629, Together: 1630

Type of Colony: Joint Stock, Royal Company

Founder: William Bradford/ J. Winthrop

Dominant Religion: Puritan

Purpose:Religious Refuge

Economy Emphasis: Shipping, Farming, and Trade

Extra: Mayflower Compact: set of laws for self Gov.

New York (NY)

Founded: 1626/ 1664

Type of Colony: Joint-stock Company

Founder: P. Minuet

Dominant Religion: None

Purpose: To Make Money

Economy Emphasis: Fur trade, general/mixed

New Hampshire (NH) & Maine (ME)

Founded: 1620's

Type of Colony: Royal

Founder: F. Gorges & J.Mason

Dominant Religion: Puritans (less strict

Purpose: to make money and they wanted space

Economy Emphasis: Fur and Fishing

Maryland (MD)

Founded: 1634

Type of Colony: Propriety

Founder: Calverts, Lord Baltimore

Dominant Religion: Protestants, Catholics

Purpose: Catholic refuge

Economy Emphasis: Tobacco

Connecticut (CT)

Founded: 1637

Type of Colony: Joint-stock Company

Founder: T.Hooker

Dominant Religion: Puritans

Purpose: Spill-over from MA; money w/ fur

Economy Emphasis: Fur Trade

Rhode Island (RI)

Founded: 1640

Type of Colony: Joint-stock Company

Founder: Roger Williams

Dominant Religion: None

Purpose: Separation btw church and state

Economy Emphasis: None

Delaware

Founded: 1637

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Carolinas

Founded: 1653; 1719

Type of Colony: Proprietary

Founder: Group of

Dominant Religion: Anglican/none

Purpose: To make money through trade

Economy Emphasis: Rice & Sugar

New Jersey (NJ)

Founded: 1702

Type of Colony: Proprietary

Founder: John Berkeley

Dominant Religion: None

Purpose: For land and money

Economy Emphasis: Trade, farming, and dairy

Pennsylvania (PA)

Founded: 1682

Type of Colony: Proprietary

Founder: William Penn

Dominant Religion: Quakers, None

Purpose: Quaker refuge and to make money

Economy Emphasis:

Extra: Don't believe in war

Georgia (GA)

Founded: 1734

Type of Colony: Proprietary

Founder: James Oglethorpe

Dominant Religion: Mildly Anglican

Purpose: Military buffer and reform

Economy Emphasis: Mixed Agriculture

North-New England

◦ Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island

◦ separatists, puritanism-very strict ideology

▪ you have to be part of the elect (predestined to go to heaven)

▪ you have to live like a saint and work hard to demonstrate it

◦ moved to America as congregations (entire churches would move)

◦ everyone lived around the church

◦ high life expectancy, low death rate

◦ high literacy because they had to be able to read the bible theocracy-church

membership required for voting or holding a position in office

◦ trade economy, little currency, mixed commercial (ship building, exporting,

lumber), limited agriculture

South

◦ Virginia, maryland, Carolinas, and Georgia

◦ agriculture centered around cash crops (something you can mass produce

that is popular)

◦ lawlessness, self-interest

◦ most people who immigrate are individuals, bachelors, and poor

◦ they are loose Anglicans, just have to have respect for the king and pay your

taxes

◦ slavery is used the most