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

2. Title each square as follows: New England Colonies’ Economy
Middle Colonies’ Economy
Southern Colonies’ Economy
Royal Colonies (Government)

3. Middle Colonies’ Economy
Plantations grew grain and wheat to export
Small Family Farms

4. Southern Colonies’ Economy
Plantations grew cotton, tobacco, and rice to export
The Plantation System used slavery to make a larger profit

5. Some small family farms

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

7. Front of Foldable Labels
1st Label Your name
1st Label 13 Colonies (title of foldable)
2nd Label Massachusetts (New England Colonies)
3rd Label Rhode Island
4th Label Connecticut
5th Label New Hampshire

8. Front of Foldable Labels
6th Label Pennsylvania (Middle Colonies)
7th Label New Jersey
8th Label New York
9th Label 1776 Delaware
10th Label Virginia 1607 (Southern Colonies)
11th Label Maryland
12th Label North Carolina
13th Label South Carolina
14th Label Georgia

9. New England
Colonies

10. New England Colonies’ Economy
Small family farms
Small businesses
Fishing
Lumber

11. Massachusetts

12. Massachusetts Founded by: The Pilgrims (Plymouth) & Puritans (MA Bay)
Founded for:
Religious freedom

13. The Mayflower Compact (1620)
Government:
The Mayflower Compact (1620)
Began town meetings & democracy
Only Puritan church members could vote
Massachusetts

14. Rhode Island Founded by: Rev. Roger Williams Founded for:
Religious freedom

15. Had freedom of religion
Government:
Had freedom of religion
Separation of church & state
Dealt fairly with Native Americans
Rhode Island

16. Connecticut Founded by: Rev. Thomas Hooker
“Father of American Democracy”

17. Founded because:
Hooker and his followers thought the Puritan leaders had too much power.
Connecticut

18. 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)

19. New Hampshire

20. 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

21. Part of Massachusetts first, and then became a Royal Colony
Government:
Part of Massachusetts first, and then became a Royal Colony
New Hampshire

22. “The Breadbasket Colonies”
Middle Colonies
“The Breadbasket Colonies”

23. Pennsylvania

24. Pennsylvania Founded By: William Penn & the Quakers Founded for:
Freedom of religion for Quakers

25. Had freedom of religion
Government:
Had freedom of religion
Said the government should care for the poor
Pennsylvania

26. The Quakers were against the slave system that was growing in the Southern colonies.
Pennsylvania

27. New Jersey
Founded By:
2 Lords Proprietor
Founded to: make money

28. New Jersey
Economy:
Fur trade
Farming
Government:
Royal Colony

29. New York

30. New York
Founded by:
The Dutch & called New Netherlands (colony) and New Amsterdam (New York City)
Won by England and re-named for the King’s brother, the Duke of York.

31. New York
Founded to: Make money

32. New York
Economy:
Fur trade
Farming wheat
Government:
Royal Colony

33. Delaware

34. Delaware Originally part of New York Then sold to Pennsylvania
Finally became itself in 1776

35. Southern Colonies

36. Virginia The English at Jamestown in 1607 Founded by: Founded to:
Make Money

37. Had the first representative assembly, The Virginia House of Burgesses
Government:
Had the first representative assembly, The Virginia House of Burgesses

38. Maryland Founded by: Cecilius Calvert, also called Lord Baltimore
Founded for:
Religious freedom for Catholics

39. Government: Proprietary Colony
Maryland
Proprietary Colony
First written protection of freedom of religion with the Toleration Act of 1649

40. North & South Carolina 8 Lords Proprietor Founded by: Founded to:
make money
North Carolina
South Carolina

41. North Carolina - small family farms
Economy:
N&S Carolina
North Carolina - small family farms
South Carolina – rice plantations
Government: Royal Colony

42. Georgia James Oglethorp Founded by:
Be a safe place for debtors to start over
Founded to:

43. Government: Royal Colony
Georgia
Government: Royal Colony