Colonies

Reasons to Visit

North Carolina

Warm climate and sunny beaches

Kitty Hawk - Wright Brothers Home

Great Hunting

Virginia

Landing place of Sir Walter Raleigh

Iroquois Confederacy

Home of Thomas Jefferson

Massachusetts

Home of Puritan Religion

Mayflower Landing Site

Salem Witch Trials

New York

Most religiously diverse colony

Beautiful forest lands

Tim Wilkenson

North Kitsap Options Program

Richard Gordon Elementary

Michael Blackmon

Visit The Thirteen Colonies

Fun Facts

The Thirteen Colonies

• Massachusetts is an Algonquian name for “At the great hill”

• People went to Rhode Island for freedom of religion

• Connecticut was a very religious colony

• Maryland was named after Queen Mary

• New Hampshire’s most common export was rum

• New York was originally a Dutch colony called New Amsterdam

• Delaware was named after the Delaware River

• Pennsylvania was short for Penns Wood

• New Jersey was founded by Sir George Carteret

• Virginia was founded for the production of silk

• North Carolina’s John White was the father of the first English baby born in the colonies

• The Georgia Colony was the last colony formed

• Spain and France vied for the South Carolina coast

Historical Facts

North Carolina Colony

Settled in 1587

Latin name from Charles (Carolus)

Resources: fish, forests, agriculture

The colony was the future home of Duke Basketball

Virginia Colony

Chartered in 1606 and settled in 1607

Named after Queen Elizabeth, the “Virgin Queen”

Founded by Sir Humphrey Gilbert

Massachusetts Colony

Founded in 1630 by John Winthrop

Largest fishing industry in the colonies

New York Colony

Founded in 1626

Included modern New Jersey, Delaware and Vermont