13 Colonies Foldable KEY
13 Colonies Foldable KEY
13 Colonies Foldable KEY
Crops/ Products: -long winters, thin rocky soil- subsistence farming, corn, beans, pumpkins
-shipbuilding, fish, fur, rum, lumber
-many small businesses run by streams and water power
People (nationalities/ religions): Boston founded by Puritans, Plymouth founded by Pilgrims; both searching for
religious freedom
Relationship with Natives: Lived peacefully at first with Natives. As more settlers came, Natives began to fight back
(King Philip’s War)
Middle Colonies
Cities in the Region: New York City (formerly New Amsterdam) and Philadelphia
Crops/ Products: m ild climate and rich farmland; lots of cash crops- grain (wheat)
used to make flour
Relationship with Natives: William Penn believed Natives should be compensated for their land
Other notes: Most of the middle colonies were proprietary colonies (run by patrons)
Southern Colonies
Colonies in the Region: Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
People (nationalities/ religions):-Maryland founded by George and Calvert Cecil as a safe haven for English Catholics
-By 1692 there were more Protestants than Catholics
-many settlers, especially in Georgia, were English criminals and debtors
-Scottish and Irish prisoners shipped to colonies to work off their sentences
Relationship with Natives: -Bacon’s Rebellion- settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon rebelled against colonial policy
intended to protect Native lands by keeping settlers in eastern VA
Other notes:-Political system based on wealthy plantation (large farm) owners
-Georgia was also founded to protect other British colonies from the Spanish in Florida