Transcript The 13 Colonies - Scarsdale Schools

The 13 Colonies
New England, Middle, and Southern
New England
Protestant Reformation
Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Massachusetts Bay
Colony
John Winthrop-led Puritans to Mass.
Bay & became 1st governor (assembly)
Puritans (Persecution)
Witch Trials - 1692
Anne Hutchinson - questioned minister’s
teachings fled to RI
Town meetings- discuss issues & vote
Connecticut
Thomas Hooker - said governor had too
much power & wanted to limit govt.
Wrote Fundamental Orders of Conn:1.
vote to all men who were prop owners 2.
limited governor’s power (rep govt)
Rhode Island
Began by Roger Williams- spoke out
against the leaders in Mass. Bay (too
much power)
Based on religious tolerance(let others
practice their religion)
Separation of church and state
Middle Colonies
New York (New Netherlands)
Proprietary colony
cash crop
cultural diversity
Pennsylvania - Quakers
New York/New
Netherland
Settled as a trading center (fursbeavers) - religious freedom
Settled by the Dutch- taken by the
English w/ little fight
New Jersey developed out of NY as a
proprietary colony give land - receive
payment
Pennsylvania
Settled by William Penn - Quaker Protestant reformers who believed that
all people were equal, no war
Protestants, Catholics, Jews flocked
here
Southern Colonies
Jamestown
Cash crop
Carolinas
Maryland
Georgia
Slave codes
Carolinas
rise of plantations -indigo, tobacco,
cotton
Slaves needed for plantations
Maryland
Catholic settlement by Lord Baltimore
built for religious freedom
Act of Toleration- religious freedom for
all Christians
Georgia
James Oglethorpe settled it as a place
where debtors could make a fresh start
Slave codes
treated enslaved Africans as property
not as human being
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