Colonial Assignment

The History of the Thirteen Colonies

You will be creating a PowerPoint presentation that should be between three to five minutes. It will either be on one of the Thirteen Colonies:

The New England Colonies:


•Rhode Island



•Massachusetts



•Connecticut



New Hampshire


•The colony was founded in 1629.
•The colony was founded by John Mason. He was a sailor, colonizer and also he was a captain who participated in the founding of Portsmouth in 1630, gave a New Hampshire its name.

•The first people of the colony were English settlers.
•Throughout the 1600s, people in New Hampshire made their living through a combination of fishing, farming, cutting and sawing timber, shipbuilding, and coastal trade.
•By the first quarter of the 1700s, the provincial capital of Portsmouth had become a thriving commercial port, exporting timber products and importing everything from food to European finery.
•Population data from inception to 1776:
1630 =500 people
1700 =5 000 people
1770 =62 400 people
*2007 =1 315 828 people
•New Hampshire was a Royal Province until 1771 except for two short periods, 1642-79 and 1690-92, when it was under the control of Massachusetts. Because of New Hampshire's status as a Royal Province, it was in the peculiar position of separating the two parts of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, present-day Maine and Massachusetts.
•After a 38-year period of union with Massachusetts, New Hampshire was made a separate royal colony in 1679. As leaders in the revolutionary cause, New Hampshire delegates received the honor of being the first to vote for the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. 



The Middle Colonies:



New York

Founders
• There used to be a large area of the West Coast that was founded by the Dutch called Nieuw- Nederland meaning “New Netherlands”
• The Dutch were the first to settle there but in 1664 the British took over and it became the colony of New York. Named after James The Duke Of York.
• They say the Duke of York is the founder because the state is named after him.

Culture

•There were Native American tribes living in the area before the Europeans came

•There was the Iroquois that lived in the western part of the colony but with the colonial western expansion being unlimited they got moved further west.

•The Algonquins were another tribe they lived in the Hudson Valley and on Long Island ( also known as the Lenape People ). They were respected and known for being a peaceful group of people.

• When the Europeans came they tried to change the way that the Native Americans lived and ran the areas they lived in which didn’t make the Natives very happy.

• The Europeans moved to New York because it was the biggest trading post out of the colonies. There was also more land there then in Europe so many people came for the farming opportunities.

• Many Patriots lived in New York and didn’t like how it was a British Colony.

• New York played a large role in the fur trade

Population
• 1630 – 250
• 1680 – 9830
• 1720 – 3619
• 1780 – 210, 541



•New Jersey


Pennsylvania

Year Founded- 1684
Who founded it? - William Penn

Culture- Quakers

•Relatively strict Christians
•Refused to bow or take off their hats to Social Superiors
•Believed all men equal under god
•Refused to say oaths of loyalty to the king
•Refused to pay taxes to carry on wars
•Did not swear....Population in 1790 was 434,373 people.



•Delaware





The Southern Colonies



•North Carolina



South Carolina



- Founded in 1670 by eight nobles with a Royal Charter from Charles II.
- The Royal Charter allowed the nobles to settle in the area south of Virginia.
- Because of internal problems the colony was divided into North and South Carolina in 1729. From that point on the crown controlled the colony.
- This colony was one of the wealthiest colonies.
- It was also the colony that had the most battles fought on its land.
- In the year 1670 when the colony of South Carolina was first created there were 200 people that lived in it.
- By the year 1776 when the American Revolutionary War started the amount of people living in the colony of South Carolina had soared to 124,244.

1776 1760 1750 1740 1730 1720 1710 1700 1690 1680 1670
124244 94074 64000 45000 30000 17048 10883 5704 3900 1200 200

- South Carolina became a royal colony in 1729. It was the second last colony to become a royal colony. Georgia became a royal colony in 1752. However five of the thirteen colonies never became royal colonies.
- A group of proprietors founded the colony with the purpose of trading goods and making profits from that.
- The main motivation of the founders of the Southern Colonies was to make money. They brought their family to live on the plantation but they were not the main concern.


Georgia


Georgia was the last colony to be founded in 1732


In 1732 King George issued a charter for the settlement of Georgia.


Georgia was founded by James Edward Oglethorpe in 1732, a British general, and philanthropist


In 1733 114 settlers arrived at the Savannah to establish the new settlement. Most were not from debtor’s prisons.


Georgia’s population in 1776 was around 40,000


Georgia is the eighth fastest-growing state in the U.S., with a population expected to exceed 12 million people by 2030. And that population is getting younger: more than half of Georgians are between the ages of 20 and 54.


The Population of Georgia today is 4,630,841


Royal Georgia refers to the period between the termination of Trustee governance of Georgia and the colony's declaration of independence at the beginning of the American Revolution. During this period the province was administered by the King of England.


Georgia's rich soil and good land attracted people when the first head right and bounty land grants came out in 1776.
In 1828 in Habersham, White and Lumpkin Counties gold was discovered bringing fortune and people to the land.


•Virginia



•Maryland

Future posts will look more closely at each of the groups of colonies.



Identify the following:

• Year founded
• Who founded it?
• Describe the culture of the colony
• Population data from inception to 1776


We will start presentations on Wednesday, October 7, 2009.

See the American History pick up box for the scoring guide.