THE AMERICAN COLONIES
The Settling Of America By The British
THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
Massachusetts
(Maine)
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
REASONS FOR COMING TO THE USA.
• Some people didn’t like
the Church of England.
• They wanted the Church
to be more pure. These
people were called
Puritans.
• They decided to start a
colony in the Northeast
part of the USA.
SETTLING IN MASSACHUSETTS
• John Winthrop was the
leader of the Puritans.
• Massachusetts was
settled near the great
hill in Algonkian.
• The colony’s first
settlement was Boston
along the Charles River.
TABLE GROUP DISCUSSION
• WHY DO YOU THINK THE NEW ENGLAND
COLONIES WERE ESTABLISHED BEFORE ANY
OTHER PART OF THE MODERN-DAY UNITED
STATES?
• PREDICT WHAT PROBLEMS THE NEW ENGLAND
COLONIES WOULD HAVE HAD.
COLONIAL LIFE
• Massachusetts and
Connecticut had laws,
50 families = 1 teacher
and 1 school.
• These schools were for
writing and reading only.
SCHOOLS
• Boys went to grammar
schools while girls went
to dame school.
• Students learned with
slate and chalk.
• School teachers were
strict and were allowed
to hit their students or
make them wear a
dunce hat.
THOMAS HOOKER
• He left Massachusetts
to live in Connecticut
because he didn’t like
the way the Puritans
lived.
• IN 1639,Connecticut
had the FIRST
WRITTEN LAWS IN
NORTH AMERICA.
ROGER WILLIAMS
• Roger Williams believed
you should tolerate
other people’s beliefs in
God.
• He left Massachusetts
and started a colony,
Providence.
ANNE HUTCHINSON
• Anne Hutchinson was a
woman who believed you
could go directly to God so
you could pray to God
without going through a
priest.
• She moved to Providence
with Roger Williams and
started the Rhode Island
Colony.
MIDDLE COLONIES
NY
PA
The Middle colonies
included:
NJ
DE
Picture Credit:
New York (NY) , New
Jersey (NJ) ,
Delaware (DE), and
Pennsylvania (PA).
CLIMATE OF THE MIDDLE COLONIES
• Good farming land
(grains) Livestock,
rivers and hills.
• Good Harbors
allowed for trade of
goods.
GROUPS IN THE MIDDLE COLONIES
• People came from
Germany, Scotland &
Ireland.
Quakers (plain living,
peaceful, against slavery and
dancing)
Germans (Pennsylvania
Dutch, skilled workers and
loved music).
Scotch-Irish farmed and
hunted.
TABLE GROUP DISCUSSION
• DO YOU THINK THE MIDDLE COLONIES WERE
MORE PEACEFUL THAN THE NEW ENGLAND
COLONIES? EXPLAIN.
• PREDICT WHY SO MANY DIFFERENT GROUPS OF
PEOPLE WENT TO THE MIDDLE COLONIES FROM
OTHER LANDS.
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT MIDDLE COLONIES
• -Called Breadbasket
of Colonial America.
The farmers raised a
surplus so they could
sell.
• -Germans invented
Pennsylvania rifle &
Conestoga wagon.
WILLIAM PENN
• Developed the
Pennsylvania
territory and made it
a place for religious
freedom.
• Originally was a
part of the Quakers
when they came to
America.
MD
VA
SOUTHERN COLONIES
NC
SC
GA
• The Southern Colonies
included: Maryland (MD),
Virginia (VA), North
Carolina (NC), South
Carolina (SC), and
Georgia (GA).
SOUTHERN COLONIES CLIMATE
• Great soil for
growing crops all
year long.
• Coastal plains,
swamps, forests,
harbors allowed
for good trading..
TABLE GROUP DISCUSSION
• WHAT ADVANTAGES DID THE SOUTHERN
COLONIES HAVE OVER OTHER COLONIES OF THE
BRITISH IN THE AMERICAS?
• EXPLAIN WHY SLAVERY WOULD BE NEEDED IN
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES AND NOT IN THE
OTHER COLONIES OF THE BRITISH IN THE
AMERICAS.
PEOPLE GROUPS
• Maryland was a safe
place for Roman
Catholics.
• South Carolina settled
by French.
• Georgia founded by
Oglethorpe for new
start for debtors in
England.
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SOUTHERN COLONIES
• Planters’ duties to see
that crops were
planted, records kept,
took care of everyone.
• Slavery was
necessary for
Southern plantation.
• The cash crop for
Virginia was Tobacco.
SUMMARY ASSIGNMENT
• ON YOUR ½ SHEET:
• CREATE/FILL IN A TRI-VENN DIAGRAM COMPARING AND
CONTRASTING THE THREE DIFFERENT AREAS OF BRITISH COLONIES
IN THE UNITED STATES.
• USE TEXT SPECIFIC EVIDENCE.
• EACH PART OF THE TRI-VENN DIAGRAM SHOULD HAVE 4 PHRASES.