World History / Mr.

Govea
13 Colonies
1. Virginia 8. Pennsylvania
2. Massachusetts 9. Maryland
3. Connecticut 10. Delaware
4. Rhode Island 11. North Carolina
5. New Hampshire 12. South Carolina
6. New York 13. Georgia
7. New Jersey

Research Questions
1. Governing the colony? (Who & how did they get to be in charge of the colony?)
2. Economics? (How did people earn a living? What agriculture gave them a need for labor?)
3. Religion & Culture? (Give an example of their culture.)

Colony name Economics Religion & Culture

Government
(Who & how did they get to
be in charge of the colony?)

The Virginia Colony’s Religion in the Virginia

Virgina King James I. After the economy relied heavily on Colony mainly
arrival at Jamestown. the mass production of consisted of Anglican
tobacco. Christians.

The economy of Colonial The

Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop.
By a group of puritans
from England under the
leadership of Governor
John Winthrop.
Massachusetts was based Massachusetts Bay
on manufacture and Colony was a Puritan
industries such as ship theocracy and non-
building and the Puritan like Quakers.
manufacture and export
of rum.
 John Haynes. Governor of
Connecticut the Massachusetts Bay
Colony led 100 people to
Hartford in 1636.
Roger Williams. The
Rhode Island colony was in fact settled
by five independent and
combative sets of people
between 1636 and 1642.
Capitan John Mason. The
New Hamspire land in the New World
was granted to Capitan
John Mason, who named
the new settlement after
his homeland in
Hampshire.
King Charles II gave New
New York York as a proprietary
colony to the Duke of
York, the future King
James II.
John Berkeley and George
New Jersey Carteret were named
proprietors of the colony;
they had the power to
appoint the governor of
the colony.
King Charles II of England.
Pennsylvania Was a proprietary colony
founded when William
Penn was awarded a
charter by King Charles II
in 1681.
George Calvert, 1st Baron
Maryland Baltimore, applied to
Charles I for a royal
charter for what was to
become the province of
Maryland.
The colonists made their
living fishing, whaling,
shipbuilding and shipping.
As well as Rhode Island
did it
The economy in
Connecticut was based on
timber products, the fur
trade, maple syrup,
copper, livestock
products, horses, rum,
whiskey and beer. As well
as Connecticut did it.
It was based on timber
products, the fur trade,
maple syrup, copper
livestock products, horses,
rum, whiskey, and beer.
Colonists made their living
fur, lumber trading,
shipping, the slave trade,
and as merchants and
tradesman in the colony’s
towns.
Major exports from new
jersey colony were rice,
wheat, indigo, grain, and
other agricultural
products.
The economy of
Pennsylvania colony
revolves around wheat,
grain, and agriculture.
Maryland’s economy was
based on one crop,
tobacco.
The Congregational
Church remained the
established church of
the colony.
Rhode Island became
a haven for Baptists,
Quaker, Jews, and
other religious
minorities.
The religion of
Puritans was strict and
austere.
New York colony was
not dominated by a
specific religion and
residents were free to
worship as the chose.
New jersey was not
dominated by the
puritans like in the
New England Colonies
and had religious
tolerance and
freedom for its
settlers.
The religion in the
Pennsylvania Colony is
the Quaker religion.
Roman Catholicism.
 Peter Stuyvesant. He
Delaware captured New Sweden for
the Dutch.
King George II. The king
North Carolina appointed the colony’s
governor and had the
right to approve its laws.
King Charles, was founded
South Carolina by eight English nobles
with a royal charter from
king Charles II.
James Oglethorpe. James
Georgia Oglethorpe as a refuge for
London’s indebted
prisoners.
Mr. Govea, it did it in this way because I think It looks more organized, hope it doesn’t matter. :)
The economy of Delaware
colony was mixed, they
made agriculture
profitable and farms
produced grain, rice and
indigo.
Economy was based
mainly on the growing of
tobacco.
South Carolina became
one of the wealthiest
early colonies largely due
to exports of cotton, rice,
tobacco, and indigo dye.
This colony was rich with
natural resources such as
fish, timber, and good
agricultural land.
Major religious groups
in the Delaware
colony included
Quakers, catholic,
Jews and Lutherans
North Carolina: There
was not dominating
religion in the North
Carolina colony.
Anglicanism was still
the established
church in South
Carolina.
Georgia had always
been sort of a
“melting pot” of
religion. There were
large groups of
Puritans, Lutherans,
and Quaker.