Pilgrim’s Mayflower Compact

The first example of self-rule and majority rule government in the English colonies.

Virginia House of Burgesses

Frame of Government for Pennsylvania

Allowed for the General Assembly, or legislature, and individual freedoms, such as speech, worship, and trial by jury.

Southern Colonies

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Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

Many settlers who came were indentured servants, people who agreed to work for another person without pay for a certain length of time in exchange for passage to North America.

Cash Crops in South

New England Colonies

New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

Economy based on trading, shipbuilding, and fishing.

Puritans founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious reasons. The meetinghouse was used for church services and town meetings. Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, set-up a government based on the consent of the people in order to give the settlers the freedom to choose their religion. Anne Hutchison was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and started a colony in Rhode Island near Roger Williams’ colony.

Middle Atlantic Colonies 

New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Also called the "Breadbasket Colonies".

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania became one of the largest and wealthiest cities in the English colonies. In the mid 1700s, settlers began moving into the area of land between the colonies and the Appalachian Mountains known as the backcountry.He also published Poor Richard’s Almanac and created the lightning rod. Benjamin Franklin contributed to Philadelphia’s social development by starting a firefighter's organization, a hospital, a militia, a library, and a newspaper.  William Penn, the leader of Pennsylvania, was a Quaker who believed in treating all people with justice and fairness.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania became one of the largest and wealthiest cities in the English colonies.

Pilgrims/Plymouth

Settled by the Separatists, or Pilgrims, who left England in order to practice their religion freely.

The Pilgrims had a feast to celebrate their first successful harvest and their survival of the first year’s hardships, which we now celebrate as Thanksgiving.

Roanoke/The Lost Colony

Jamestown

In 1607 Jamestown became England’s first successful colony in Virginia.  They also had tobacco as a cash crop.

Connected the English colonies to England, the west coast of Africa, and the West Indies.

Slaves were brought from Africa to the West Indies on the Middle Passage of the route.