Colonial America

founded by the Pilgrims in 1620

• New Hampshire

• New York

• Maryland

• Massachusetts

Founded by William Penn and the Quakers

• Pennsylvania

• Rhode Island

• Massachusetts

• Virginia

Founded by Thomas Hooker when he left the Puritans

• Massachusetts

• Connecticut

• Rhode Island

• New York

Founded by Roger Williams who was kicked out of the Puritan colony

• Connecticut

• Massachusetts

• New Hampshire

• Rhode Island

Founded by Lord Baltimore II for the Catholics and religious toleration

• Pennsylvania

• Georgia

• Maryland

• Virginia

Founded in 1607, Jamestown was its first city

• Virginia

• Maryland

• South Carolina

• Massachusetts

Founded for economic reasons; traded cotton, indigo, and rice to England

• Georgia

• South Carolina

• Maryland

• Delaware

Founded as a place for debtors and as a buffer from Spain

• Pennsylvania

• North Carolina

• Georgia

• Virginia

Settled mostly by the Swedish after it broke off from Pennsylvania

• New York

• Connecticut

• Maryland

• Delaware

Settled first by the Dutch, then taken over by England without a shot fired

• New Hampshire

• New York

• Delaware

• Georgia