1. Chapter 3 Lessons 2 and 3 The 13 English ColoniesEQ
Which colonies make up each of the three colonial regions and how are the three regions different? (Use lots of details!)

2. Q1: New England Colonies
New England colonies Included: - New Hampshire - Massachusetts/Maine (part of Mass., counts as one) - Rhode Island - Connecticut
Note: New England Colonies are shaded in green on this map!

3. Q2: Pilgrims and the Mayflower
Group of pilgrims called Separatists broke ties with Church of England (felt it held onto too many Catholic traditons/practices)
Fled to Americas to avoid religious persecution on ship called the Mayflower (landed in Plymouth, Mass.)
Signed document called Mayflower Compact
Compact established self government and majority rule

5. More Info: The Mayflower Compact:
November 11, 1620
Written and signed before Pilgrims got off ship
Not a constitution, but an agreement to form a crude govt. and submit to majority rule
Signed by 41 adult males
Led to adult male settlers meeting in assemblies to make laws in town meetings

6. Plymouth Plantation

7. More Info: That First Year…
Winter of
Only 44 out of the original 102 survived
None chose to leave in 1621 when Mayflower sailed back
Fall of 1621  First “Thanksgiving”
Colony survived with fur [especially beaver], fish, and lumber
Plymouth stayed small and economically unimportant
1691  only 7,000 people
Merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony

8. Q3: Religious Freedom Puritans = Wanted to purify Church of England
: Puritan families left in great #s for New England colonies
Called the Great Migration
Over 20,000 made trip across Atlantic Ocean

9. More Info: Characteristics of New England Settlements
Low mortality  average life expectancy was 70 years of age
Many extended families
Average 6 children per family
Average age at marriage:
Women – 22 years old
Men – 27 years old.

10. Q4: New England Way Of Life
Religion heavily influenced New England colonies
Puritans worked with Indians to learn how to survive in new land
Led to “New England” way of living (duty, godliness, hard work, honesty)
Began fishing and growing wheat and corn mostly for themselves but some of which was shipped back to England

11. Extra Info: Salem Witchcraft Trials
New England colonies originally centered on church
By late 1600s began to change
Several girls from Salem pretended to be bewitched and falsely accused others of witch craft
Witch hunts began in 1692, with over 100 people arrested and tried, and 20 found guilty and put to death
Ppl took trials as a sign from God to return to strict Puritan lifestyle

12. Q5: Middle Colonies Included: New York New Jersey Pennsylvania
Delaware
*Note: The Middle
Colonies are
shaded purple
on this map.

13. Q5 Cont.: Middle Colonies
Middle Colonies located between New England colonies to the north and Southern Colonies to the south

14. Q6: Most Diverse Colony Area
Groups who came to the middle colonies included:
- Swedes, Dutch, English, Germans, and Africans, and others

15. Q7: The Quakers Another religious group
No ministers or Bible, needed “inner light”
Treated Native Americans fairly
Why they came: Many were whipped, imprisoned, and hanged for their beliefs while in England

16. Extra Info: The Quakers
Called Quakers because they “quaked” during intense religious practices.

17. Q8: Living in the Middle Colonies
Religious freedom attracted many groups to move to middle colonies
Hudson and Delaware rivers supported shipping and commerce
River valleys had rich soil and mild winters, great for farming and raising livestock

18. Q9: Southern Colonies: Included: - Maryland - Virginia
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- Georgia
*Note: The
Southern
Colonies are
shaded in red on this map!

19. Q10: Location Factors
Bordered by Appalachian mountains to west and Atlantic Ocean to east
Largest colonial area
Climate and soil good for warm weather crops like tobacco and rice

20. American Long Grain Rice
Indigo
American Long Grain Rice
Corn
Cash Crops grown by
Southern Colonies
Tobacco Plant

21. Extra Info: Late-Coming Georgia
Founded in 1733
Last of the 13 colonies
Named in honor of King George II
Founded by James Oglethorpe

22. Extra Info: Georgia--The “Buffer” Colony
Chief Purpose of Creating Georgia:
As a “buffer” between the valuable Carolinas & Spanish Florida & French Louisiana.
Received subsidies from British govt. to offset costs of defense
Export silk and wine
A haven for debtors thrown in to prison
Determined to keep slavery out!
Slavery found in GA by 1750.

23. Summary! What did I learn?
Write a 4-6 sentence summary answering the EQ’s using details!
Remember the EQ’s were:
Which colonies make up each colonial area?
Describe how each colonial area is different. (Use lots of details!)