1. The 5 W’s of the 13 Colonies
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2. Table of Contents
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3. Virginia Who founded it: What did they do to make a living?
Where did the settlers come from?
When was it founded:
Why was it founded:

4. Virginia Who founded it: What did they do to make a living?
Virginia Company
What did they do to make a living?
Profit from trade and farming
Where did the settlers come from?
England
When was it founded:
1607
Why was it founded:
Economic opportunities

5. Plymouth/Massachusetts Bay Colony
Who founded it:
Separatists & Puritans
What did they do to make a living?
Small farms, trade, whaling, shipping
Where did the settlers come from?
England
When was it founded:
1620 (Plymouth) & 1629 (Mass. Bay Colony)
Why was it founded:
Religious freedom

6. New Hampshire Who founded it: What did they do to make a living?
Where did the settlers come from?
When was it founded:
Why was it founded:

7. New Hampshire Who founded it: What did they do to make a living?
Settlers from Massachusetts Bay Colony
What did they do to make a living?
Trading, fishing, small farms
Where did the settlers come from?
MBC
When was it founded:
1623
Why was it founded:
Economic opportunities

8. Maryland Who founded it: What did they do to make a living?
Lord Baltimore
What did they do to make a living?
Trading, cash crops (tobacco)
Where did the settlers come from?
England
When was it founded:
1632
Why was it founded:
Religious freedom

9. Connecticut Who founded it: What did they do to make a living?
Thomas Hooker
What did they do to make a living?
Small farms, fishing, whaling
Where did the settlers come from?
Massachusetts Bay Colony
When was it founded:
1636
Why was it founded:
Religious and political freedom

10. Rhode Island Who founded it: What did they do to make a living?
Roger Williams
What did they do to make a living?
Small farms, fishing, whaling
Where did the settlers come from?
England
When was it founded:
1636
Why was it founded:
Religious and political freedom

11. New York Who founded it: What did they do to make a living?
(1st) Dutch
(2nd) Duke of York
What did they do to make a living?
Trading
Where did the settlers come from?
Netherlands then England
When was it founded:
1664
Why was it founded:
Economic opportunities

12. New Jersey Who founded it: What did they do to make a living?
Sir Carteret and Lord Berkeley
What did they do to make a living?
Trading, cash crops (pigs! Cows!)
Where did the settlers come from?
England
When was it founded:
1664
Why was it founded:
Economic opportunities

13. Pennsylvania Where did the settlers come from? Who founded it:
William Penn
What did they do to make a living?
Cash crops (wheat/corn), livestock, agriculture
Where did the settlers come from?
Quakers, Germans, Scotch-Irish, Dutch, (basically
anyone who wants to come)
When was it founded:
1681
Why was it founded:
Religious freedom for Quakers

14. Delaware Where did the settlers come from? Who founded it:
Taken over by the English
What did they do to make a living?
Livestock, cash crops, lumber, iron ore
Where did the settlers come from?
Started as part of Pennsylvania
When was it founded:
1701
Why was it founded:
Economic opportunities

15. The Carolinas Who founded it: What did they do to make a living?
North: Poor farmers
South: Rich nobles
What did they do to make a living?
Agriculture, Tobacco
Where did the settlers come from?
England
When was it founded:
1712 (became two colonies)
Why was it founded:
Economic opportunities

16. Georgia Who founded it: What did they do to make a living?
James Oglethorpe
What did they do to make a living?
Agriculture, Tobacco
Where did the settlers come from?
England – (Georgia was a place for debtors
To work off their debt)
When was it founded:
1732
Why was it founded:
Economic opportunities