Important Places Flashcards
Jamestown
Virginia
Plymouth Massachusetts
Pilgrims land here instead of Virginia
not bound by charter laws
creates the Mayflower Compact
Massachusetts Bay
Puritans come here to practice their religion
Creates the General Court
Maryland
A nice place for Catholics
North Carolina
Was not the best for farming and developed slowly
South Carolina
Great for farming (rice and sugar) and expanded quickly
Charlestown became the biggest city in the south due to trade
Delaware
One part of PA didn’t want to send delegates so far
Were granted their own charter to be their own colony
Pennsylvania
Religious utopia
Practiced religious toleration
spoke out against slavery
dealt fairly with Native Americans
New York
King Charles’ II brother takes over colony and it is renamed after him
New Jersey
NY is split in half and souther half becomes a proprietary colony
it then becomes a royal colony
Rhode Island
People question the Puritan teachings
they move out of the Ma. Bay colony and head to RI
Connecticut
Even more people question the Puritan teachings and move south to present day CT
Many more people follow
Due to the increase in people the Fundamental Orders of CT was made
New Hampshire
People challenged Puritan teachings
forced to leave and settled North of the colony in present day NH
Georgia
Buffer colony
A place for debtors
Roanoke
First settlement
