By Brian Wolter

5th Grade- Mrs.Haller

COLONY NAME YEAR FOUNDED FOUNDED BY BECAME ROYAL COLONY

Virginia 1607 London Company 1624

Massachusetts 1620 Puritans 1691

New Hampshire 1623 John Wheelwright 1679

Maryland 1634 Lord Baltimore N/A

Connecticut c. 1635 Thomas Hooker N/A

Rhode Island 1636 Roger Williams N/A

Delaware 1638Peter Minuit and New Sweden

CompanyN/A

North Carolina 1653 Virginians 1729

South Carolina 1663Eight Nobles with a Royal Charter

from Charles II1729

New Jersey 1664Lord Berkeley and Sir George

Carteret1702

New York 1664 Duke of York 1685

Pennsylvania 1682 William Penn N/A

Georgia 1732 James Edward Oglethorpe 1752

Virginia

North Carolina

South Carolina

Georgia

Pennsylvania

New YorkMassachusetts

Rhode Island

Connecticut

New Jersey

Delaware

Maryland

New Hampshire

They built a lot of ships in the New England Colonies

The Triangular Trade helped the Colonies’ economy.

In the Middle Colonies, a lot of grain was grown.

All industries help the Colonies flourish.

The Southern Colonies grew a lot of rice and tobacco.

In the South, they had big plantations that the slaves worked on.

They had slave auctions which people bought slaves.

The overseer was the boss of the plantation.

Slavery wasn’t very popular in the North.

Slavery made the Southern Colonies wealthy.

Map-http://vasetthestandard.com/images/13_American_Colonies_White_Colonies.bmp

Founder of Colonies-http://americanhistory.about.com/library/charts/blcolonial13.htm

Banks, J. A. (2003). Our nation. New York , NY: McGraw-Hill .