1. Founding the 13 Colonies

2. England’s First Colonies
Protestant Reformation
Puritans wanted to ‘purify’ the Anglican Church by removing all remaining aspects of Catholicism
Left England when King James refused (1603)
Economic Changes
Tenant farmers in England were evicted in favor of raising sheep
Wool farmers formed joint-stock companies which had the ability to venture out into the world

3. England’s First Colonies
The Chesapeake Colonies
Jamestown (1607)
Headrights
Maryland (1632)
Proprietary Colony

4. Pilgrims and Puritans Plymouth Colony (1620)
Massachusetts Bay Colony (1630)
John Winthrop
Rhode Island 1636
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
Joined in 1644

5. Pilgrims and Puritans Connecticut New Hampshire (1677) Maine
Thomas Hooker (1636)
New Hampshire (1677)
Captain John Mason
Maine
Sir Fernando Gorges
Purchased by Massachusetts

6. New Colonies New York Pennsylvania and Delaware
1609 Dutch colony of New Amsterdam
1664 Charles II takes from Dutch
Also took New Jersey
Pennsylvania and Delaware
1681 Charles II grants Pennsylvania to William Penn to settle a debt
1682 Penn buys more land to the south which becomes Deleware

7. New Colonies The Carolinas The Georgia Experiment
1663 Charles II takes land and names it Carolina
Two distinct regions, scattered population to the North, harbors and good farming land to the south
The Georgia Experiment
1720s refuge for ‘worthy poor’
1732 James Oglethorpe founded the colony
Strict rules until the 1740s