Distinctive Features of the 13 Colonies:
Economical activities, Religion, and some influent figures which would be prominent.
Economical activities, Religion, and some influent figures which would be prominent.
C.
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Name
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Foundation and settlers
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Year
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Products
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Features
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Religion
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Figures
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E
W
E
N
G
L
A
N
D
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MASS
Massachusetts
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As Plymouth
Colony
& Mass. Bay Colony By Thomas Dudley, Winthdrop |
1620
1630 |
fishing, corn, livestock, lumbering,
shipbuilding
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Salem witch trials. 1692-1693.
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Calvinist Puritans. There were some
Congregationalists too.
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John Endecott 1st Gov.
John Winthrop
12 years Gov. |
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N. H.
New Hampshire
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John Wheelwright
|
1623
|
potatoes, fishing, textiles, shipbuilding
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Royal colony
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Puritans
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Captain John Mason
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CONN
Connecticut |
Thomas Hooker
puritans |
1635
|
wheat, corn,
fishing |
Formed to expand from Mass. Bay
|
Congregationalists
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R. I.
Rhode Island |
Roger
Williams, theologian
|
1636
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Agriculture (livestock, dairy, fishing),
Manufacturing
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Williams was a puritan, then Baptist,
banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony
because of beliefs in religious freedom and the need for separation of Church
and State
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M
I
D
D
L
E
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N. Y.
New York |
Duke of York
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1664
|
shipbuilding, iron works, cattle, grain,
rice, wheat, indigo
|
Settled by the Dutch
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Dutch Reformed and Anglicans.
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PA
Pennsylvania |
William
Penn, Quaker.
|
1682
|
wheat, corn, cattle, dairy, textiles,
papermaking, shipbuilding
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“Holy Experiment”. Equal before God. Pacifist
groups. 1688, first American anti-slavery protest
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Quakers. Lutherans, Anabaptists, Amish, Mennonites, Moravian
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N. J.
New Jersey
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Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret
|
1664
|
ironworking, lumbering
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Settled by Swedish, Dutch and English
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Lutherans, Dutch reformed, Quakers
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DEL
Delaware
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Peter Minuit & New Sweden Company
|
1638
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Fishing,
Lumbering
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Lutherans, Anglicans, Dutch Reformed
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S
O U T H E R N |
MD
Maryland
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Lord Baltimore
|
1634
|
shipbuilding, iron works, corn, wheat, rice,
indigo
|
Catholicism
|
Frederick Douglass
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VA
Virginia
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As Jamestown,
by the London Company
|
1607
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Plantation agriculture: tobacco, wheat, corn)
- Cash crop
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Fertile land
|
To convert natives to Christianity
|
John Smith
Pocahontas
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N
C
North
Carolina
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Virginians
|
1653
|
Plantation agriculture (indigo, rice,
tobacco)
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Anglicans
a few Baptists |
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S C
South Carolina
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8 Nobles of Charles II
|
1663
|
Plantation agriculture (indigo, rice,
tobacco, cotton, cattle)
|
Sara and
Angelina Grimké (suffrage)
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GA
Georgia
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James Edward Oglethorpe
|
1732
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indigo, rice, sugar
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Founded because of religious freedom. Anglicans & Moravians
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MLK
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