4953576826 | Virginia | •joint stock company •Chief Powhatan •John Smith •Promise of free land after 7 years of labor •tobacco •John Rolfe •indentured servants •William Berkeley | 0 | |
4953576827 | Maryland | •first propriety colony •Lord Baltimore (Cecilius Calvert) •tobacco | 1 | |
4953576828 | Plymouth | •Pilgrims/Separatists •William Bradford •Mayflower Compact | 2 | |
4953576829 | Massachusetts Bay | •John Winthrop •refuge for persecuted Christians •the trading company became the gov | 3 | |
4953576830 | Rhode Island | •Roger Williams •Anne Hutchinson •religious refuge •separation of church and state | 4 | |
4953576831 | Connecticut | •Thomas Hooker •self-governing •fundamental orders of commonwealth •Christian commonwealth, but voting wasn't limited to church members | 5 | |
4953576832 | New Hampshire | •John Mason •became a royal colony | 6 | |
4953576833 | Maine | •Fernando Gorges •taken over by Massachusetts (its proprietor) | 7 | |
4953576834 | The Carolinas | •Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina •encourage practice of large land grants •SC became royal •NC remained under proprietors' rule | 8 | |
4953576835 | New Netherland (New York) | •profit-making enterprise •Peter Minuit •religious pluralism | 9 | |
4953576836 | New Jersey | •George Carteret •originally east and west jersey | 10 | |
4953576837 | Pennsylvania | •Quakers •William Penn •religious tolerance •proprietary gov | 11 | |
4953576838 | Georgia | •James Oglethorpe •royal colony •effective gov | 12 |
Colonies AP US History Flashcards
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