2: Settling the 13 Colonies

Financial Support and Colonial Organizations

• $Joint-stock companies$$$Joint-stock companies$$

  • 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$$$Charter$$

  • 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$$$Charter Colonies$$

  • Under those factors, colonies were known as this

• $Proprietary Colonies$$$Proprietary Colonies$$

  • colonies given to individuals or groups

• $Royal Colonies$$$Royal Colonies$$

  • 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$$$Pilgrims$$, went to the New World

• September 1620, they sailed from Plymouth, England

• $Ship name: Mayflower$$$Ship name: Mayflower$$

• arrived in America on November 11

• $Mayflower Compact: to keep peace in the colony; 1st self-government in the New World$$$Mayflower Compact: to keep peace in the colony; 1st self-government in the New World$$

• After arrival, they built their colony$$, Plymouth$$

• $Squanto$$$Squanto$$ taught them how to grow crops

• $William Bradford:$$$William Bradford:$$ 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