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The Later
English
Colonies
Mr. HeathBlue Creek Elementary School
January 2013
Maryland • Founded for religious
freedom by George Calvert
• To find out more about George Calvert, click on his name.
• Passed a law of religious tolerance that allowed people of any religion to live in Maryland
• Grew tobacco and traded furs
George Calvert • George Calvert
converted to Catholicism• Catholics were
persecuted in England • King Charles granted
Calvert permission to start Maryland.
• George Calvert died before he could start the colony
• His son, Cecilius Calvert, became leader of Maryland.
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The Carolinas• Originally included what
is today North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
• Owned by the eight noblemen called the Lords Proprietors
• Received the grant from King Charles II in 1663
• Settled by people from Virginia, England, France, Germany, and Switzerland
Northern Carolina • Most important products• Tobacco• Naval Stores—tar,
turpentine, pitch
Southern Carolina• Top Products• Rice and Indigo
Indigo was used to make blue dye for clothes.
New York • Located at the mouth
of the Hudson River• Founded by the Dutch• City of New
Amsterdam named after the capital of the Netherlands (Holland)
• New Amsterdam taken by England during war with the Dutch in the 1650s
New Amsterdam (Part of New
Holland)
New York • King Charles II gave New
Amsterdam to his brother, James, the Duke of York.
• Renamed New York • James later became King
James II of England
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New Jersey• James, Duke of York
divided New York and created the new colony of New Jersey.
• Gave New Jersey to Lord Berkeley and Sir George Calvert
New York
Pennsylvania New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Started by William Penn in the 1680s
Pennsylvania William Penn
• Wanted to be free to follow his faith
• Well educated • Became a Quaker• Persecuted for his
faith• Founded Pennsylvania
(“Penn’s Woods) • Became a haven* for
many religions
*haven = safe place
Pennsylvania Quakers
• Believed that everyone was equal in God’s site
• Believed that Christians did not need the church of England, its ministers, or ceremonies
• Refused to pay taxes for the church
• Refused to serve in the military
• Opposed slavery• Wanted fair treatment
for Native Americans
Delaware • Pennsylvania included
the land south of New Jersey and east of Maryland
• Known as New Sweden
• Settlers of New Sweden wanted to rule themselves
• William Penn granted them self-rule
• Became the colony of Delaware
Georgia • Last of the original 13
colonies • Founded by James
Otlethorpe • Wanted Georgia to be a
place for poor people to have a better life
• Haven for debt prisoners • Strict rules to make poor
people work • Rum illegal • Slavery outlawed (at
first)