APUSH Unit 2: The Thirteen Colonies

Massachusetts 1630

New Hampshire 1622

Connecticut 1636

Rhode Island 1636

New York 1626

New Jersey 1664

Pennsylvania 1681

Delaware 1664

Maryland 1632

Virginia 1607

North Carolina 1663

South Carolina 1663

Georgia 1732

Southern Colonies

Chesapeake Colonies

Middle Colonies

New England Colonies

New England

Geography: cold winters, rocky terrain→not reliant on plantation farms

New England

Motive: religious, pilgrims/puritans fleeing from religious persecution

New England

Economy: fishing and shipbuilding

massachusetts bay, Mayflower Compact, small family units, religious persecution, John Winthrop, City Upon a Hill, Roger Williams, Seperation of Church and State, Rhode Island, Anne Hutchinson

New England:

• had the ___________ colony

• ______ was the first inkling of democracy and a representative government

• they came in _____ because they were fleeing from _____

• really strict adherence to laws and ideologies

• Govener was ____ who wrote _____

• he banished ____ for wanting ______ and then he founded ____. Also banished ______ because she threatened religious leaders.

Salem Massachusetts, 1692, puritans

The Salem Witch Trials:

• happened in _____ in ___ by the ____

• accused people of witchcraft if they were “abnormal”

• was caused by deep rooted paranoia from Puritan beliefs

Middle Colonies

Geography: temperate and diverse

Middle Colonies

Motive: diverse reasons including religious freedom and wealth acquisition

Middle Colonies

Economy: agriculture and shipping, not huge plantations, trade reliant/trade hub of colonies

pennsylvania, quakers, Holy Experiment, toleration, William Penn

Middle Colony

• important colony:____

• Had the Religious Society of Friends, aka _____, who attempted the “_______” where they made a community of religiously persecuted minorities. Meaning religious ____. An influential member of the society was ____

• They were very free, educated, and had a good relation with natives.

Chesapeake and Southern Colonies

Geography: rich soil, mild/warm weather, long growing seasons, mostly unaffected by winters

Chesapeake and Southern Colonies

Motive: economic pursuit, for social mobility, attracted a lot of young single men

Chesapeake and Southern Colonies

Economy: agriculture plantations, cash crops (rice, indigo, tobacco), labor reliant, had indentured servants and then commonly used slavery (biggest participants in slave trade)

Jamestown, permanent, Joint stock Company, House of Burgesses

Chesapeake important colony: _____

• first ___ british settlement

• relied some on the Virginia Company which was a ______

• little rough at first (starving times) but new cash crops (tobacco) introduced by John Rolfe allowed them to flourish

• had a representative body called the _____

North and South Carolina, tabacco farms, rice farms

Important Southern Colonies:______

• they relied on slave labor, known for

• North Carolina: _______

• South Carolina:_____