Colony Notes Reasons for Economic Predominant Colony Type of Settlers Geography/ Climate Government Style settlement Activities Religion self-governing, as harsh winters and first by Pilgrims; to escape religious crop and livestock described in the warm summers; rich Puritan Massachusetts later by Puritans persecution farming, lumbering Mayflower pastures and forests Compact former Puritans humid summers and farming, various from Mass. led by religious freedom cold winters; coastal lumbering, Rhode Island faiths/ self-governing Roger Williams and from the Puritans lowlands and rocky shipbuilding, tolerant Anne Hutchinson woodlands fishing, whaling former Mass. establish a new cold winters and mild farming, self-governing, Connecticut Puritans led by settlement apart summers; forested hills shipbuilding, Puritan with written Thomas Hooker from Mass. Puritans and seacoast fishing, whaling constitution British-appt. cold winters and hot various governor/ council; New York Dutch and English make money summers; wetlands and Trade, furs faiths then an elected forested mountains assembly cold winters and hot farming, trade, English Quakers led to safely practice various Pennsylvania summers; rolling hills lumbering, and elected assembly by William Penn their religion faiths and fertile soil shipbuilding cold winters, hot farming, various originally feudal, English Catholics to find religious and summers; low, fertile lumbering, faiths, Maryland but eventually an and Protestants political freedom land surrounding shipping, fishing, particularly elected assembly Chesapeake Bay iron mining Catholic mild winters and elected assembly English landowners hot summers; coastal Church of Virginia to make a profit farming of and skilled laborers lowlands and wooded England Burgesses) mountains debtors from to find religious mild winters and hot ruled by various Georgia English prisons, and freedom summers; wetlands and farming Oglethorpe, then faiths other Europeans and cheap land forested mountains an elected assembly Colonists from establish an mild winters and humid South England, & later, agricultural, based agricultural base in summers; swamps and all faiths self-governing Carolina colonists from on rice and indigo the Americas coastline Barbados
Colony Notes Colony Type of Settlers Reasons for settlement Geography/ Climate Economic Activities Predominant Religion Government Style Massachusetts first by Pilgrims; later by Puritans to escape religious persecution harsh winters and warm summers; rich pastures and forests crop and livestock farming, lumbering Puritan self-governing, as described in the Mayflower Compact Rhode Island former Puritans from Mass. led by Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson religious freedom from the Puritans humid summers and cold winters; coastal lowlands and rocky woodlands farming, lumbering, shipbuilding, fishing, whaling various faiths/ tolerant self-governing Connecticut former Mass. Puritans led by Thomas Hooker establish a new settlement apart from Mass. Puritans cold winters and mild summers; forested hills and seacoast farming, shipbuilding, fishing, whaling Puritan self-governing, with written constitution New York Dutch and English make money cold winters and hot summers; wetlands and forested mountains Trade, furs various faiths British-appt. governor/ council; then an elected assembly Pennsylvania English Quakers led by William Penn to safely practice their religion cold winters and hot summers; rolling hills and fertile soil farming, trade, lumbering, and shipbuilding various faiths elected assembly Maryland English Catholics and Protestants to find religious and political freedom cold winters, hot summers; low, fertile land surrounding Chesapeake Bay farming, lumbering, shipping, fishing, iron mining various faiths, particularly Catholic originally feudal, but eventually an elected assembly Virginia English landowners and skilled laborers to make a profit mild winters and hot summers; coastal lowlands and wooded mountains farming Church of England elected assembly of Burgesses) Georgia debtors from English prisons, and other Europeans to find religious freedom and cheap land mild winters and hot summers; wetlands and forested mountains farming various faiths ruled by Oglethorpe, then an elected assembly South Carolina Colonists from England, & later, colonists from Barbados establish an agricultural base in the Americas mild winters and humid summers; swamps and coastline agricultural, based on rice and indigo all faiths self-governing
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