Turn your Colonies Flip Book over to the back. Using your pencil, divide the back into four equal squares.

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Turn your Colonies Flip Book over to the back.
Using your pencil, divide the back into four
equal squares.
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Title each square as follows New England
Colonies Economy
Middle Colonies Economy
Southern Colonies Economy
Royal Colonies (Government)
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Middle Colonies Economy

• Plantations grew grain and wheat to export
• Small Family Farms

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Southern Colonies Economy

• Plantations grew cotton, tobacco, and rice to
  export
• The Plantation System used slavery to make a
  larger profit

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• Some small family farms

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Royal Colonies (Government)
1. King appoints Governor
2. King appoints Council to advise the governor
3. Colonists elect assembly but it has limited
power
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Front of Foldable Labels

• 1st Label Your name
• 1st Label 13 Colonies (title of foldable)
• 2nd Label 1620 Massachusetts (New England
  Colonies)
• 3rd Label 1644 Rhode Island
• 4th Label 1636 Connecticut
• 5th Label New Hampshire

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Front of Foldable Labels

• 6th Label Pennsylvania 1681 (Middle Colonies)
• 7th Label New Jersey
• 8th Label 1613 New York
• 9th Label 1776 Delaware
• 10th Label Virginia 1607 (Southern Colonies)
• 11th Label 1634 Maryland
• 12th Label 1670 North Carolina
• 13th Label 1670 South Carolina
• 14th Label 1733 Georgia

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New England Colonies
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New England Colonies Economy

• Small family farms
• Small businesses
• Fishing
• Lumber

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Massachusetts
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Massachusetts
Founded by The Pilgrims (Plymouth) Puritans
(MA Bay)
Founded for
Religious freedom
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Government

• The Mayflower Compact (1620)

• Began town meetings democracy

• Only Puritan church members could vote

Massachusetts
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Rhode Island
Founded by Rev. Roger Williams
Founded for
Religious freedom
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Government

• Had freedom of religion

• Separation of church state

• Dealt fairly with Native Americans

Rhode Island
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Connecticut
Founded by Rev. Thomas Hooker
Father of American Democracy
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Founded because
Hooker and his followers thought the Puritan
leaders had too much power.
Connecticut
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Government
Connecticut

• Hooker wrote the Fundamental Orders of
  Connecticut as a government (1639) (first written
  constitution in the colonies)

• F.O.C. said that ALL men could vote (not just
  church members)

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New Hampshire
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New Hampshire
Founded by
People who were banished from the Massachusetts
colony
Founded because They wanted to get away from
strict Puritan rule in MA Bay
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Government
Part of Massachusetts first, and then became a
Royal Colony
New Hampshire
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Middle Colonies
The Breadbasket Colonies
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Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania
Founded By William Penn
the Quakers
Founded for
Freedom of religion for Quakers
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Government

• Had freedom of religion

• Said the government should care for the poor

Pennsylvania
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The Quakers were against the slave system that
was growing in the Southern colonies.
Pennsylvania
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New Jersey
Founded By
2 Lords Proprietor
Founded to make money
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New Jersey
Economy

• Fur trade
• Farming

Government

• Royal Colony

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New York
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New York
Founded by
The Dutch called New Netherlands (colony) and
New Amsterdam (New York City)
Won by England and re-named for the Kings
brother, the Duke of York.
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New York
Founded to Make money
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New York
Economy

• Fur trade
• Farming wheat

Government

• Royal Colony

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Delaware
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Delaware

• Originally part of New York

• Then sold to Pennsylvania

• Finally became itself in 1776

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Southern Colonies
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Virginia
The English at Jamestown in 1607
Founded by
Founded to
Make Money
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Virginia
Government

• Had the first representative assembly, The
  Virginia House of Burgesses

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Maryland
Founded by
Cecilius Calvert, also called Lord Baltimore
Founded for
Religious freedom for Catholics
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Government
Maryland

• Proprietary Colony

• First written protection of freedom of religion
  with the Toleration Act of 1649

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North South Carolina
8 Lords Proprietor
Founded by
Founded to
make money
North Carolina
South Carolina
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Economy
NS Carolina

• North Carolina - small family farms

• South Carolina rice plantations

Government Royal Colony
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Georgia
James Oglethorp
Founded by
Be a safe place for debtors to start over
Founded to
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Georgia
Government Royal Colony