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, Plymouth
  • 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