Southern Colonies. Date of Colonization. Famous People. John Smith John Rolfe. John Carver William Bradford. New York. Peter Minuit Peter Stuyvesant.
Massachusetts Bay. John Winthrop. George Calvert, Lord Baltimore. Rhode Island. Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson. Thomas Hooker. New Hampshire. John Mason John Wheelright. Peter Minuit William Penn. North Carolina. Lords Proprietors Charter of Carolina. South Carolina. New Jersey. Nevertheless, tobacco cultivation caught on, and just before the start of the Revolutionary War , Virginia was producing 55 million pounds of tobacco a year, thanks to the labor of enslaved people and indentured servants who were purchased with profits from the crop.
He arranged a deal in which a group of 12 influential citizens, known as the Masonian Proprietors, acquired a large amount of land on behalf of the colony, and then began recruiting settlers for it. In the s, James Oglethorpe , a retired British army officer, decided to make it his mission to help the impoverished and debt-ridden inhabitants of London get a fresh start in life.
He thought the best solution was for them to resettle in America. The corporation created to establish Georgia was a charity, and none of the trustees themselves could receive any land or pay.
British hatters took notice and persuaded Parliament in to pass the Hat Act, which made it illegal to export hats from the colonies, on the grounds that it endangered jobs in the mother country.
The Hat Act also put limits on the number of workers and apprentices who could be hired by colonial hatmakers, and banned the use of enslaved people in the hat business. As damaging as the Hat Act was to American hatmakers, it was followed by an even more potentially ruinous law, the Molasses Act , which sought to protect British sugar planters from price competition from the Dutch, French and Spanish West Indies. That outraged colonial merchants, who began smuggling sugar and molasses in response.
The indigo plant also flourished in the climate of the American southeast, according to Charleston County Public Library. A South Carolina merchant named James Crokatt, who had moved back to England, convinced the government there to pay a cash incentive of six pence per pound of indigo to purchasers of South Carolina indigo. The Lords Proprietors, a group of eight men who received a royal charter in for what is now North and South Carolina, originally had the dream of creating a feudal society in which they would rule like absolute monarchs over the settlers, and even envisioned a class of hereditary serfs who would be bound to the land.
That bizarre fantasy turned out to be unworkable, and in the half-century that followed, the colony was plagued by problems ranging from corruption and incompetence to pirate attacks and conflicts with Native Americans.
Rhode Island saw its first slave ship arrive in Newport harbor in , and the colony went on to play a key role in the slave trade during the s. Ships set sail from the colony on about 1, triangular voyages.
Cargoes of rum were exchanged for captives in Africa, the captives were then transported to the West Indies and traded for sugar and molasses produced by enslaved people. Those raw materials went back to New England, where they were used to make the rum. Rhode Island also had the highest percentage of enslaved Africans in New England, with captives making up Some in the colony were troubled by its dependence upon the cruel institution, and legislators passed a number of laws in an effort to limit it, including a law that emancipated the children of enslaved women once they reached adulthood.
Delaware started out as a Swedish colony in , when explorer Peter Minuit established a settlement near what is today Wilmington. In September , during the reign of King James I, a group of around English men and women—many of them members of the English Separatist Church later known to history as the Pilgrims—set sail for the New World aboard the Mayflower.
Two months later, the three-masted The 13 British colonies that eventually became the United States in some ways were more different than they were alike. They were founded for a diverse range of reasons, from the pursuit of fortunes to the desire to create havens from persecution and model societies, and had In the pre-Revolutionary War era, people living in the original Many of the details of the Popham colony have been lost to history, but in its heyday the tiny settlement in Maine was considered a direct rival of Jamestown.
Both colonies got their start in , when the British King James I granted the Virginia Company a charter to establish The upstart settlement dates to the early 17th In September , a merchant ship called the Mayflower set sail from Plymouth, a port on the southern coast of England. The Mayflower Compact was a set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World on the Mayflower.
When Pilgrims and other settlers set out on the ship for America in , they intended to lay anchor in northern Virginia. But after Some people, many of them seeking religious freedom in the New World, set sail from England on the Mayflower in September That November, the ship landed on the shores of Cape Cod, in present-day Massachusetts.
A scouting party was sent out, and in late December the Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Recommended for you. The 13 Colonies. Jamestown Colony. The Mayflower. Jamestown Colony On May 14, , a group of roughly members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River. Plymouth Colony In September , during the reign of King James I, a group of around English men and women—many of them members of the English Separatist Church later known to history as the Pilgrims—set sail for the New World aboard the Mayflower.
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