Colony |
Year Founded |
Leader/Founder |
Government |
Reasons founded |
Massachusetts |
1620 1629 |
William Bradford Brad Winthrob |
male church members who owned property were allowed to vote |
Religious Freedom |
Connecticut |
1635 |
Thomas Hooker |
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
Based on freedom of religion and political freedom |
Rhode Island |
1636 |
Roger Williams |
All men who owned property could vote, Seperation of church and state |
Seperation of church and State, Religious Tolerance |
New Hampshire |
1623 |
Sir Ferdinand Gorges |
Trading in fishing villages, Crown appoints government but the colony is allowed to elect its own assembly |
Predominately fishing and trading villages in Massachusetts and they wanted their own colony |
New York |
1664 |
Duke of York |
The Duke of York appointed a govenor |
Economic reasons by Deutch, taken over by english |
New Jersey |
1664 |
Duke of York Lord Berkley |
similar to New York; elected assembly |
Duke of York didn't want 2 colonies |
Pennsylvania |
1682 |
William Penn |
law-making was left up to people and representatives |
Quakers could worship freely; religious tolerance |
Delaware |
1638 (Founded by deutch) 1664 (Became part of penslyvania) 1701 (Became a seperate colony) |
The Dutch became part of Pennsylvania and then a separate colony |
granted separate legislature, but still had to answer to Pennsylvania's government |
They asked Penn for a separate government; religious tolerance |
Maryland |
1632 |
Lord Baltimore |
A Feudal Society |
A safe haven for Catholics |
Virginia |
1607 |
Virginia Company |
House of Burgesses |
Profit |
North Carolina |
1663 1712 |
Poor Tobacco Farmers |
Not Much of Government People settled in the woods low population |
To get away and make money from trade and farming |
South Carolina |
1663 1712 |
Poor Tobacco Farmers |
Governor appointed by king elected assembly |
Same as North Carolina |
Georgia |
1732 1752 (royal colony again) |
James Ogelthrope |
English liberties; freedom of religion unless you were Catholic; 1752- King appointed governor and elected assembly |
haven for debtors; buffer between Spanish and Chesapeake |