Colonies information

William Bradford is the founder of what?

Plymouth

What year did Plymouth settle?

1620

Mayflower Compact was an important characteristic of what place?

Plymouth

What year did Plymouth joined Massachusetts?

1691

John Winthrop was the founder of what?

Massachusetts

What year did Massachusetts settle?

1630

Massachusetts was what until 1686?

Theocracy

What government was Plymouth and until what year?

self governed until 1691

Roger Williams was the founder of what?

Rhode Island

What year did Rhode Island settle?

1636

Why did Roger Williams make a colony?

Because he was banished, to opposed Puritan rule

What is an important characteristic of Rhode Island?

Separation of Church and State

Thomas Hooker was the founder of what?

Connecticut

What year did Connecticut settle?

1636

Why was Plymouth founded?

to keep religious community and English identity

Why was Massachusetts founded?

to establish a perfect Puritan Society

Why was Connecticut founded?

Land; Hooker and followers left the Massachusetts Bay Colony

What is the Fundamental Order?

The first written constitution in the colonies ( also known as blue laws)

Puritans ( John Mason) was the founder of what?

New Hampshire

What year was Connecticut settlement date?

1623

Why was New Hampshire made?

opposition to government in Massachusetts

New York was known as what?

New Netherlands in 1626

What year was New Netherlands taken over?

by the English in 1664

Who were the founders of New York?

Dutch West India Company (Henry Hudson)

What reason was New York formed?

trade with Indians; land

as New Netherland 1623, and taken by English in 1664 to become what colony?

New Jersey

Who founded New Jersey?

The Dutch West India company

What reason was New Jersey made?

trade with Indians, land, Quakers ideals

Taken from Dutch and given to Berkeley and Cartert. Bought and developed by Quakers for who?

New Jersey

What year was Pennsylvania settled?

1682

William Penn founded what colony?

Pennslyvania

Why was Pennsylvania formed?

for trade and profit; wheat as well as Quaker Ideal

The Holy Experiment tied pacific and guaranteed religious freedom and political liberty for what colony?

Pennsylvania

New Sweden 1638; taken by the Dutch then English become what colony?

Delaware

The Swedish Colonist founded what?

Delaware

Delaware was founded because of what?

trade with Indians; land

Part of Pennsylvania until 1776 but had own legislature in what colony?

Delaware

Jamestown was know as what colony?

Virginia

What year is Virginia made?

1607

London Company and John Smith founded what?

Virginia

Find gold and Northwest Passage convert Indians to Christianity; tobacco main crop was done by what colony?

Virginia

First successful colony. Colonist guaranteed “rights of Englishman” House of Burgesses (1619) - first elected legislature in colonies in what colony?

Virginia

What year was Maryland settled?

1634

George Calvert aka Lord Baltimore founded what Colony?

Maryland

Why was Maryland founded?

As a refuge for Catholics

The Tolerance Act in 1649 was done by what colony?

Maryland

8 proprietors found what colony?

They actually founded two which were North and South Carolina

What year did North Carolina Settled?

1653

What year did South Carolina Settled?

1670

Why were North and South Carolina were made?

land, trade and profit; rice

Democratic society happen very early in what colony?

North Carolina

Rich rice growing region and one the wealthiest colonies is who?

South Carolina

What year was Georgia made?

1733

James Oglethorpe and other trustees founded what colony?

Georgia

Why was Georgia formed?

To protect south Carolina; help poor debtor, rice

What government did Georgia have?

Proprietary 1732-1752 and Royal 1752-1776

Didn’t develop until goal of helping debtors abandoned then settlers seeking land developed which colony?

Georgia