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Title: 13 Colonies


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13 Colonies
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The New England Colonies
Massachusetts (Maine)
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
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Reasons for coming to the USA.
  • Some people didnt like the Church of England.
  • They wanted the Church to be more pure. These
    people were called Puritans.
  • They decided to start a colony in the North East
    part of the USA.

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Settling in Massachusetts
  • John Winthrop was the leader of the Puritans.
  • Massachusetts means at or near the great hill in
    Algonkian, Native American language.
  • The colonys first settlement was Boston along
    the Charles River.

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pbell/enl310/winthrop.htm
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Colonial Life
  • Massachusetts and Connecticut had laws saying
    that if there were 50 families, a teacher needed
    to be hired and a school setup.
  • These schools were called grammar or writing
    schools.

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Schools
  • Boys went to grammar schools while girls went to
    dame school.
  • There was no chalkboards, maps, or paper.
  • School teachers were strict and were allowed to
    hit their students or make them wear a dunce hat.

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Thomas Hooker
  • He left Massachusetts to live in Connecticut
    because he didnt like the way the Puritans
    lived.
  • IN 1639,Connecticut had the FIRST WRITTEN LAWS IN
    NORTH AMERICA.

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Roger Williams
  • Roger Williams believed you should tolerate other
    peoples beliefs in God.
  • He left Massachusetts and started a colony,
    Providence.

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history/0003.html
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Anne Hutchinson
  • Anne Hutchinson was a woman who believed you
    could go directly to God so you could pray to God
    without going through a priest.
  • She moved to Providence with Roger Williams and
    started the Rhode Island Colony.

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Life in the Colonies
  • The Puritans had their own laws for Courtship.

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Middle Colonies
NY
  • The Middle colonies included
  • New York (NY) , New Jersey (NJ) , Delaware (DE),
  • and Pennsylvania (PA).

PA
NJ
DE
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Climate
  • Good farming land (grains) Livestock, rivers and
    hills. Harbors.

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Lan_Farm_Trust.htm
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People Groups
  • People came from Germany, Scotland Ireland.
  • -Quakers (plain living, peaceful, against slavery
    and dancing)
  • -Germans (Pennsylvania Dutch, skilled workers and
    loved music).
  • -Scotch-Irish farmed and hunted.

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Interesting Facts about Middle Colonies
  • -Called Breadbasket of Colonial America. The
    farmers raised a surplus so they could sell.
  • -Germans invented Pennsylvania rifle Conestoga
    wagon.
  • -Philadelphia means brotherly love.

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nmah/carriage.htm
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William Penn
  • -William Penn owned Pennsylvania and made it a
    place for religious freedom.

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VC/visitor_info/hello_pennsylvania/paprofile.htm
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Southern Colonies
MD
VA
NC
  • The Southern Colonies included Maryland (MD),
    Virginia (VA), North Carolina (NC), South
    Carolina (SC), and Georgia (GA).

SC
GA
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Southern Colonies Climate
  • Rich land, plenty of rain a long growing
    season. Coastal plains, swamps, forests, harbors.

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cogent/gallery.htm
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People Groups
  • -Maryland was a safe place for Roman Catholics.
  • -South Carolina settled by French.
  • -Georgia founded by Oglethorpe for new start for
    debtors in England.

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Interesting Facts about Southern Colonies
  • -Planters duties to see that crops were planted,
    records kept, took care of everyone.
  • -Slavery was necessary for Southern plantation.
  • The cash crop for Virginia was Tobacco.

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