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American Colonies

Founded R e l i g i o n Government Original Economics

Colony Region Founder Note
Purpose
Establish Colonists
1585 Sir Walter English disappeared
Roanoke Southern Raleigh
colony in without a
New World trace.
Tobacco Founded as
1607 Anglican Royal joint-stock
company.
House of
John Trade and
Virginia Southern Burgesses
Smith profits
(1619). Only
60 of 1st 900
colonists
survived.
Mixed Mayflower
Religious
1620 New William Puritan Corporate farmiing Compact. Led
Plymouth freedom for
England Bradford by William
Separatists
Bradford
Mixed Set up as
1626 None Proprietary, farming, furs Dutch colony,
Peter Trade and
New York Middle then royal taken over by
Minuit profits
English in
1664
Mixed Led by John
Religious
Massachusetts 1630 New John Puritan Corporate farming, Winthrop.
freedom for
Bay England Winthrop fishing, 18,000 settlers
Puritans
shipbuilding by 1642
Escape for Mixed Puritan
1630 Puritan Corporate, those farming harshness led
New New John
then royal constricted these settlers
Hampshire England Mason
by north and
religious inland.

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and
economic
rules
Tobacco Founded by
None Proprietary George
1634 (Anglican Calvert. Slow
Religious
George after 1692) growing (only
Maryland Middle freedom for
Calvert 600 by 1650.
Catholics
Maryland
Toleration Act
(1649)
1636 Mixed Leaders of
Religious
Puritan Corporate farming Massachusetts
New Thomas and
Connecticut asked Hooker
England Hooker economic
and followers
freedom
to leave.
1636 Mixed Williams set
New Roger Religious
Rhode Island None Corporate farming up most
England Williams freedom
tolerant colony
1638 Established by
Peter None Proprietary Trade and Sweden; taken
Delaware Middle
Minuit profits. by Dutch, then
English.
North 1653 Group of Trade and Rice Joint business
Southern
Carolina proprietors Anglican Proprietary profits venture
1660 Mixed Established by
Lord None Proprietary Trade and farming Sweden; taken
New Jersey Middle Berkeley profits by English in
1664
South 1670 Group of Trade and Rice Rice major
Southern
Carolina proprietors Anglican Proprietary profits crop.
Wheat, mixed Originally
Religious
1682 None Proprietary farming Quaker, this
freedom for
William colony became
Pennsylvania Middle Quakers;
Penn home to many
trade and
European
profits
immigrants
Rice Buffer for
1733 Anglican Royal Spanish
colonies
Originally
James Debtor
Georgia Southern outlawed
Oglethorpe colony.
slavery and
restricted size
of land grants
to 500 acres.

Based on several sources, including The American Journey by Goldfield

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