Distinctive Features of the 13 Colonies

Distinctive Features of the 13 Colonies:
Economical activities, Religion, and some influent figures which would be prominent.

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