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English Colonies Tour Guide-Key
Open the EnglishColonies.kmz file with Google Earth. Using the Tour Guide sheet, visit each stop on the tour and fill in the missing information. At
each stop, you will be expected to identify the colony’s founder, its namesake, the type of colony, and at least one unique fact or event involving
the colony. Finally, before leaving each site, copy the “Tour Stop” stamp of each flag and paste it into the column titled “Proof of Visit.”
Be sure to click on the placemark to access valuable information and resources. You may use other resources such as your textbook, class notes,
or the internet to assist you in completing your tour.
Tour
Stop
Name of Colony
Founder(s)
Namesake
Plymouth
Company
1
Virginia
London
Company
Corporate/Charter &
England’s Queen
Elizabeth I, the “Virgin
Queen”
John Smith
Massachusetts tribe
2
3
Colony Type
(Who was it named
for?)
John Winthrop
Massachusetts and others
New
Hampshire
John
Wheelwright
and others
Royal
(started as charter,
became a Royal)
Corporate/Charter &
Royal
Means “large hill
place”
The County of
Hampshire in
England- home
county of John Mason
who sent the settlers
(started as charter,
became a Royal)
Proprietary &
Royal
(started as proprietary,
became a Royal)
Distinguishing Fact or
Event (Answers will vary)
Capt. John Smith made
contact with the Native
American Indians who
supplied them with food.
First permanent settlement in
New England (Pilgrims). The
Mayflower Compact would
later serve as a framework for
the Constitution.
John Wheelwright who
founded the settlement of
Exeter was banished from
Boston. They established the
Exeter Compact, modeled
after the Mayflower Compact.
Proof of
Visit
Tour
Stop
4
Name of Colony
Founder(s)
Namesake
New Jersey
English
Colonists,
Richard
Nicolls,
George
Carteret
Proprietary & Royal
Isle of Jersey in
England
5
New York
Peter Minuit
and others
Duke of York
6
Maryland
Lord Baltimore
and others
English Queen
Henrietta Maria
7
Colony Type
Unique Fact or Event
(Who was it named
for?)
Rhode Island
Roger
Williams,
Anne
Hutchinson,
and others
Dutch phrase for “Red
Island”
from an Algonquin
word, quinnehtukqut,
"beside the long tidal
river"
an early governor of
colonial Virginia, Lord
de la Warr
(started as
proprietary, became
a Royal)
Proprietary & Royal
(started as
proprietary, became
a Royal)
Proprietary
Corporate/Charter &
Royal
(started as charter,
became a Royal)
Corporate/Charter &
8
Connecticut
Thomas
Hooker, John
Haynes and
others
9
Delaware
Peter Minuit,
William Penn
and others
Royal
(started as charter,
became a Royal)
Proprietary
This was originally a Dutch
colony in New Netherlands but
was seized by Britain, claiming
John Cabot was the first to
discover the place.
Peter Minuit, a Dutchman,
bought Manhattan island for
$24 from the Native Indians.
Britain later gained full control
of the colony.
Established as a Catholic
haven, but taken over by
Puritan rebels. Lord Baltimore’s
son regained control by
proclaiming he was a
protestant.
Roger Williams was ousted
from Salem, Mass. for his
beliefs in religious freedom. The
religious freedom established in
the charter laid the framework
for religious freedom in the
Constitution.
Was founded by Puritans who
established the Congregational
Church as the state church.
Thomas Hooker left Cambridge
Mass. because of conflicts with
John Cotton, another minister.
The first colony was a Swedish
colony which was taken over by
a Dutch force. The Duke of
York took it from the Dutch. It
was a melting pot of cultures
since it had exchanged rule
many times.
Proof of
Visit
Tour
Stop
Name of Colony
Founder(s)
Namesake
North Carolina
Virginia
Colonists
from Carolus, the
Latin word for
"Charles," Charles I of
England
11
South Carolina
Virginia
Colonists, Sir
John
Yeamans
from Carolus, the
Latin word for
"Charles," Charles I of
England
12
Pennsylvania
William Penn
and others
William Penn and
“Sylvania”, Latin for
"forest"
James
Oglethorpe
and others
King George II of
England
10
13
Colony Type
Unique Fact or Event
(Who was it named
for?)
Georgia
Proprietary & Royal
Proprietary & Royal
(started as proprietary,
became a Royal)
(started as proprietary,
became a Royal)
Proprietary
Proprietary & Royal
(started as proprietary,
became a Royal)
Virginia colonists originally
settled here to provided a
buffer and defense on the
southern frontier (Florida
was under Spanish control).
Site of the first European
settlement in North America,
San Miguel de Gualdape
(1526). Originally settled
here to provided a southern
buffer and defense.
The land was given to Penn
in lieu of repayment of debt
from the British government.
Penn welcomed religious
freedom. The Mennonites &
Amish settled here (and
remnants of these families
are still here today).
The colony was originally
founded as a place to resettle England’s debtors.
The plan was for these
settlers to farm the land and
provide defense, so slavery
was prohibited.
Proof of
Visit