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    The document provides information about the 13 English colonies in the United States: - The Southern colonies included Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia. Virginia was the first colony, founded at Jamestown, but the settlers were explorers rather than farmers so life was difficult. Pocahontas married John Rolfe which improved relations. Maryland was founded for Catholics to have religious freedom. The Carolinas were owned by Lords and relied on rice plantations and slavery. Georgia was founded to prohibit slavery but that later changed. - The New England colonies included Massachusetts, founded by the Pilgrims who established the Mayflower Compact. The Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving with the Wampanoag tribe

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    The document provides information about the 13 English colonies in the United States: - The Southern colonies included Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia. Virginia was the first colony, founded at Jamestown, but the settlers were explorers rather than farmers so life was difficult. Pocahontas married John Rolfe which improved relations. Maryland was founded for Catholics to have religious freedom. The Carolinas were owned by Lords and relied on rice plantations and slavery. Georgia was founded to prohibit slavery but that later changed. - The New England colonies included Massachusetts, founded by the Pilgrims who established the Mayflower Compact. The Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving with the Wampanoag tribe

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    The document provides information about the 13 English colonies in the United States: - The Southern colonies included Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia. Virginia was the first colony, founded at Jamestown, but the settlers were explorers rather than farmers so life was difficult. Pocahontas married John Rolfe which improved relations. Maryland was founded for Catholics to have religious freedom. The Carolinas were owned by Lords and relied on rice plantations and slavery. Georgia was founded to prohibit slavery but that later changed. - The New England colonies included Massachusetts, founded by the Pilgrims who established the Mayflower Compact. The Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving with the Wampanoag tribe

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    13 COLONIES English Colonies in US


    SOUTHERN COLONIES
    VIRGINIA

    Jamestown -  John Smith -  Pocahontas- 

    • 1st colony • No work = no food • Marries John Rolfe –


    • Lazy people looking life good with Native
    for gold Americans and
    • Explorers, not farmers colonists
    = colony life was • Dies – war between
    difficult Native Americans and
    colonists
    JAMESTOWN - 

    Explorers, not
    Lazy people
    1st colony farmers = colony
    looking for gold
    life was difficult
    JOHN SMITH

     Founded Virginia
     No work = no food
    P O C A H O N TA S -   Marries John Rolfe – life
    good with Native
    Americans and colonists

    Dies – war between Native


    Americans and colonists
    Founded by Lord Baltimore the 2nd

    Catholics have religious freedom


    MARYLAND
    Catholics and Protestants fight

    Toleration Act of 1649 – first law for


    religious freedom
    CAROLINAS

    N O RT H C A R O L I N A

    8 Lord Proprietors (Owners) get


    land from English King

    North and South Carolina break


    apart

    North Carolina - Farmers


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    Rice Plantations

    SOUTH Many Europeans bring slaves


    CAROLINA

    More slaves than colonists

    • 20,000 slaves > 10,000 colonists


    GEORGIA

     Founder – Oglethorpe
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    • Wanted small farms and no slavery


    • Debt repayment (no jail, work for $)

     Oglethorpe no longer ruled 


    • Huge Rice plantations = Many slaves
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    EQUIANO

     Former slave
     Spoke out against
    slavery

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    SLAVE
    CODES

     Laws to control slaves


     Examples:
    • No meetings
    • No weapons
    • No freedom
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    NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
    MASSACHUSETTS - PILGRIMS

    English church
    Separate from Pilgrims must
    mad and
    English Church leave England
    punishes them
    PI LGRI MS

    Mayflower Compact

    First attempt at making own


    government
    Written law
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    THANKSGIVING

     Tisquantum (Squanto)
    • Taught Pilgrims how to farm
    • Celebrated first year of Pilgrims
    surviving
    • Wampanoag (Squanto's tribe)
    came and celebrated together

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    PILGRIM LIFE

     Not great farmers


     Had families not only men like Virginia
     Education important
     Women
    • Widows could own property
    • Sign contracts
    • Some court cases could be brought by women

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    P U R I TA N S

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