reasons for founding the colonies

Question 1

new england colonies

Answer 1

new hampshire
massachusetts
rhode island
connecticut

Question 2

middle colonies

Answer 2

new york
new jersey
pennsylvania
delaware

Question 3

southern colonies

Answer 3

maryland
virginia
north carolina
south carolina
georgia

Question 4

why was virginia founded in 1607?

Answer 4

aimed to find gold - economic depression in england, 1601

wanted to find a passage to asia

indians taught them how to grow exotic crops like maize

Question 5

why was maryland founded in 1634?

Answer 5

george calvert, lord baltimore converted to roman catholicism

needed refuge for english catholics - england protestant at the time

they wanted to set up plantations to grow tobacco - popular in england later on

Question 6

why was new england founded in 1620?

Answer 6

more women - increase population

less indentured servants

much healthier place to live - longer life expectancy because it was cold

most people were puritans subject to persecution

aimed to found a religious settlement of saints with a government based on religious principles

Question 7

why were the middle colonies founded in 1664?

Answer 7

founded by quakers who were intensely persecuted such as william penn

government more democratic - all taxpayers and freemen could elect their assembly

many dissenters (people who don’t conform to state church) flocked to pennsylvania - complete religious freedom

Question 8

why was georgia founded in 1732?

Answer 8

philanthropic experiment - set up by general james e oglethorpe for poor people and religiously persecuted

military buffer to spanish florida