Make sure you have 2 sheets of loose leaf notebook paper. The
Original Thirteen Colonies Fold: Hamburger Hot Dog Hamburger
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Founder Reason People Climate/ Geography Economy Religion
Politics/ Government
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New England Colonies Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut
New Hampshire,
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Massachusetts FounderReasonPeople Climate Geography
EconomyReligionPolitics/ Govt Separatist Pilgrims William Bradford
Escape religious persecution PuritansFertile land, rich pasture
Cold winters Warm humid summers Farming Fur Lumber shipping
PuritanTheocracy (church was the government)
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Rhode Island FounderReasonPeople Climate Geography
EconomyReligionPolitics/ Govt Roger Williams Escape religious
persecution White Europeans Red clay soil, hilly, forests, large
bays, Colder winters Humid summers Cattle, dairy farmers Sustenance
farming, shipping Religious freedom Governor and representative
assembly
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Connecticut FounderReasonPeople Climate Geography Economy
Religion Politics/ Govt Thomas Hooker Escape religious persecution
Dutch and Swedish settlers Hilly, forests Cold winters Mild summers
Sustenance farming, cattle, ship building, fishing, whaling Puritan
First written constitution called the Fundamental Orders
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Middle Colonies Founder Reason People Climate/geography Economy
Religion Politics/government New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New
Jersey and Delaware
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New York FounderReasonPeople Climate Geograph y
EconomyReligionPolitics/ Govt Samuel Champlain Henry Hudson Dutch
East India Company ProfitEuropean whites, mostly Dutch Hot summers
Cold winters Swampy coasts, mountains, forests, rocky Fur Lumber
Shipping Slave trade Corn, flax, mining Religious freedom King
appointed governor
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Pennsylvania FounderReasonPeople Climate Geography
EconomyReligionPolitics/ Govt William Penn Escaping Religious
persecution English Quakers Rolling hills Fertile soil Hot summer,
cold winters Farming, dairy, lumber, trades Religious Freedom Self-
government, representative assembly
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Maryland FounderReasonPeople Climate Geography
EconomyReligionPolitics/ Govt George Calvert Haven for religious
and political freedom Mostly Catholics Largest bay in U.S. low and
fertile land, cold winters, hot humid summers Sustenance farming,
flax, grains, lumber, shipping, fishing, cattle, dairy, iron mining
Mostly Catholic, religious freedom Representative government
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Southern Colonies Virginia South Carolina Georgia North
Carolina Hamburger Hotdog Hamburger Founder Reason People
Climate/geography Economy Religion Politics/government
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Virginia FounderReasonPeople Climate Geography
EconomyReligionPolitics/ Govt Sir Walter Raleigh ProfitEnglishMild
winter, Humid summers, low fertile land, quiet bays, western wooded
mountains Tobacco farming Slave trade, shipping Church of England
Free, white, land owning men elected representatives to the House
of Burgesses
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South Carolina FounderReasonPeople Climate Geography
EconomyReligionPolitics/ Govt 8 Lords Proprietors (friends of King
Charles II) ProfitWhite Europeans Short mild winters, long humid
hot summers, low swampy coasts, western wooded mountains Farmed
cotton, tobacco, indigo and rice Religious freedom Fundamental
Constitution of Carolina
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Georgia FounderReasonPeople Climate Geography
EconomyReligionPolitics/ Govt George II James Oglethorpe Refuge for
the poor Debtors from English prisons and white Europeans Short
mild winter Farming Cotton, indigo, tobacco, rice Religious freedom
Free white male landowners elected representatives to the common
House of Assembly
