domingo, 24 de agosto de 2014

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


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