The 13 ColoniesThe 13 ColoniesNew England, Middle, and Southern

New England

Protestant Reformation

Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Connecticut

Rhode Island

Massachusetts Bay Colony

John Winthrop-led Puritans to Mass. Bay & became 1st governor (assembly)

Puritans (Persecution)

Witch Trials - 1692

Anne Hutchinson - questioned minister’s teachings fled to RI

Town meetings- discuss issues & vote

Connecticut

Thomas Hooker - said governor had too much power & wanted to limit govt.

Wrote Fundamental Orders of Conn:1. vote to all men who were prop owners 2. limited governor’s power (rep govt)

Rhode Island

Began by Roger Williams- spoke out against the leaders in Mass. Bay (too much power)

Based on religious tolerance(let others practice their religion)

Separation of church and state

Middle Colonies

New York (New Netherlands)

Proprietary colony

cash crop

cultural diversity

Pennsylvania - Quakers

New York/New Netherland

Settled as a trading center (furs-beavers) - religious freedom

Settled by the Dutch- taken by the English w/ little fight

New Jersey developed out of NY as a proprietary colony give land - receive payment

Pennsylvania

Settled by William Penn - Quaker - Protestant reformers who believed that all people were equal, no war

Protestants, Catholics, Jews flocked here

Southern Colonies

Jamestown

Cash crop

Carolinas

Maryland

Georgia

Slave codes

Carolinas

rise of plantations -indigo, tobacco, cotton

Slaves needed for plantations

Maryland

Catholic settlement by Lord Baltimore built for religious freedom

Act of Toleration- religious freedom for all Christians

Georgia

James Oglethorpe settled it as a place where debtors could make a fresh start

Slave codes

treated enslaved Africans as property not as human being

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Bandwagon

Testimonial

Snob Appeal

Transference

Like Mike Commercial

Card stacking or Glittering

Generalities

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