Turn your Colonies Flip Book
over to the back. Using your
pencil, divide the back into
four equal squares.
Title each square as follows:
New England Colonies’
Economy
Middle Colonies’ Economy
Southern Colonies’ Economy
Royal Colonies (Government)
Middle Colonies’ Economy
Plantations grew
grain and wheat to
export
Small Family Farms
Southern Colonies’ Economy
Plantations grew cotton,
tobacco, and rice to
export
The Plantation System
used slavery to make a
larger profit
Some small family farms
Royal Colonies (Government)
1. King appoints Governor
2. King appoints Council to
advise the governor
3. Colonists elect assembly
but it has limited power
Front of Foldable Labels
• 1st Label Your name
• 1st Label 13 Colonies (title of foldable)
• 2nd Label 1620 Massachusetts (New
England Colonies)
• 3rd Label 1644 Rhode Island
• 4th Label 1636 Connecticut
• 5th Label New Hampshire
Front of Foldable Labels
6th Label Pennsylvania 1681 (Middle Colonies)
7th Label New Jersey
8th Label 1613 New York
9th Label 1776 Delaware
10th Label Virginia 1607 (Southern Colonies)
11th Label 1634 Maryland
12th Label 1670 North Carolina
13th Label 1670 South Carolina
14th Label 1733 Georgia
New England
Colonies
New England Colonies’ Economy
Small family farms
Small businesses
Fishing
Lumber
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Founded by: The Pilgrims
(Plymouth) & Puritans (MA
Bay)
Founded for:
Religious freedom
Government:
The Mayflower Compact
(1620)
Began town meetings &
democracy
Only Puritan church
members could vote
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Founded by: Rev. Roger
Williams
Founded for:
Religious freedom
Government:
Had freedom of religion
Separation of church &
state
Dealt fairly with Native
Americans
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Founded by: Rev. Thomas
Hooker
“Father of American Democracy”
Founded because:
Hooker and his followers
thought the Puritan leaders
had too much power.
Connecticut
Government:
Connecticut
Hooker wrote the Fundamental
Orders of Connecticut as a
government (1639) (first written
constitution in the colonies)
F.O.C. said that ALL men could
vote (not just church members)
New
Hampshire
New Hampshire
Founded by:
People who were banished
from the Massachusetts
colony
Founded because: They
wanted to get away from
strict Puritan rule in MA Bay
Government:
Part of Massachusetts
first, and then became a
Royal Colony
New Hampshire
Middle Colonies
“The Breadbasket
Colonies”
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Founded By: William Penn &
the Quakers
Founded for:
Freedom of religion
for Quakers
Government:
Had freedom of
religion
Said the government
should care for the
poor
Pennsylvania
The Quakers were against
the slave system that was
growing in the Southern
colonies.
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Founded By:2 Lords
Proprietor
Founded to: make money
Economy:
New Jersey
Fur trade
Farming
Government:
Royal Colony
New York
New York
Founded by:
The Dutch & called
New Netherlands
(colony) and New
Amsterdam (New York
City)
Won by England and renamed for the King’s brother,
the Duke of York.
New York
Founded to: Make money
Economy:
Fur trade
Farming wheat
Government:
Royal Colony
New York
Delaware
Delaware
Originally part of New York
Then sold to Pennsylvania
Finally became itself in 1776
Southern Colonies
Virginia
Founded by:
The English at
Jamestown in
1607
Founded to:
Make Money
Government:
Virginia
Had the first
representative assembly,
The Virginia House of
Burgesses
Maryland
Founded by: Cecilius Calvert,
also called Lord
Baltimore
Founded for:
Religious freedom for
Catholics
Government:
Maryland
Proprietary Colony
First written protection of
freedom of religion with
the Toleration Act of 1649
North & South Carolina
Founded by:
8 Lords
Proprietor
Founded to:
make money
South Carolina
North Carolina
Economy:
N&S Carolina
North Carolina - small
family farms
South Carolina – rice
plantations
Government: Royal Colony
Georgia
Founded by:
James
Oglethorp
Founded to:
Be a safe place
for debtors to
start over
Georgia
Government: Royal Colony