The 13 English Colonies Chart History Worksheets
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Colony
Year
Reason for Settlement
Leader(s)
Economy
Origin of Name
Escape religious persecution;
William
Fishing, lumber,
Indian name – “big hill
Massachusetts
1620
establish a Puritan
Bradford;
shipbuilding, trade,
place”
commonwealth
John Winthrop
whaling
Some wanted profit from trade
Benning
New
1623
and fishing; other Puritans
Wentworth;
Trade, fishing
Named for Hampshire in
Hampshire
wanted to settle their own
John
England
colony because they did not
Wentworth;
agree with the religious
John
intolerance of the Mass.
Wheelwright
Puritans
Puritans expansion; Establish
Indian name – “long tidal
Connecticut
1636
another Puritan settlement;
Thomas Hooker
Trade
river”
Profit from fur trade
Puritans left Mass. to settle
Debated by historians –
1636
their own colony because they
may have been named for
did not agree with the religious
Roger Williams
Shipping; raising
the island of Rhodes, or
Rhode Island
intolerance of the Mass.
livestock, farming
may be the Dutch word for
Puritans (Rhode Island
“Red” (either way, it’s not
promoted religious tolerance
an island)
instead)
Wheat, milling,
First controlled by the
Profit from trade; land
James, the Duke
lumber, fur trade,
Dutch and called New
Netherland WAR!
New York
1625
available for farming
of York
sugar refining,
shipbuilding, trade
controlled by England;
Named for York in England
First settled by Swedes and
Profit from trade; land
Johan Pritz;
Trade, farming
called New Sweden, later by
Delaware
1638
available for farming
Johan Rising
the Dutch, even later by the
English; Named after
English Lord De La Warr
First settled by Dutch and
New Jersey
1664
Profit from trade; land
John Berkeley;
Trade, farming
Swedes, later claimed by
available for farming
George Carteret
the English; Named for the
island of Jersey in England
Escape religious persecution in
“Sylvania” refers to
“wooded lands” “Penn’s
Pennsylvania
1637
England; Establish a colony for
William Penn
Trade, farming
Quakers (a colony for religious
Woods”
tolerance)
Search for gold; English outpost
John Smith; John
Tobacco
Named for Queen Elizabeth
Virginia
1607
against Spain; land available for
Rolfe
I (known as “the Virgin
farming; profit from trade
Queen” because unmarried
Escape religious persecution in
Named for French Queen
Maryland
1632
England; Establish a Catholic
George Calvert,
Tobacco
Henrietta Marie, Catholic
settlement (a colony for
Lord Baltimore
wife of King Charles I of
religious tolerance)
England
Settled by farmers looking for
North and
land; profit from trade;
William Berkeley
Rice, indigo,
Named for King Charles I of
South Carolina
1663
strengthen English ties in the
tobacco
England
Americas
Buffer to protect the Carolinas
Georgia
1732
from Spanish-controlled
James
Rice, indigo, trade,
Named for King George II of
Florida; Home for debtors
Oglethorpe
raising livestock
England
settlement (rather than prison)
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