2: Settling the 13 Colonies

Financial Support and Colonial Organizations

• $Joint-stock companies$
    * Jamestown was funded by this type of company
    * People could invest by buying shares of stock at a price
    * businessmen invested the shareholders’ money

• $Charter$
    * King gave every joint-stock company a charter
    * Purpose: establishes a colony
    * had rules for its location and its administration
    * The actual permission to found a colony

• $Charter Colonies$
    * Under those factors, colonies were known as this

• $Proprietary Colonies$
    * colonies given to individuals or groups

• $Royal Colonies$
    * King had authority

The New England Colonies

• Settlers in search of religious freedom
• Puritans: believed Anglican Church didn’t worship according to the Bible
• Separatists: didn’t believe Anglican Church should be purified
• held their own worship services
• separate from the church

Plymouth

• Separatists that were known as $Pilgrims$, went to the New World
• September 1620, they sailed from Plymouth, England
• $Ship name: Mayflower$
• arrived in America on November 11
• $Mayflower Compact: to keep peace in the colony; 1st self-government in the New World$
• After arrival, they built their colony$, <strong>Plymouth</strong>$
• $Squanto$ taught them how to grow crops
• $William Bradford:$ made a celebration of thanksgiving to God

The New England Colonies

• Massachusetts Bay
• Rhode Island
• Connecticut
• New Hampshire

The Middle Colonies

• New York
• New Jersey
• Pennsylvania
• Delaware

The Southern Colonies

• Virginia
• Maryland
• The Carolinas
• Georgia