Question | Answer |
Who Founded Virginia & Why Was it Founded | The London Company and Cpt. John Smith; To find gold and to expand trade |
Who Founded Massachusetts Bay/Plymouth Rock & Why Was it Founded | MB= Pilgrims ("Separatists"); Wanted religious freedom.
PR= John Winthrop & John Carver; To avoid religious persecution |
Who Founded Maryland & Why Was it Founded | Cecil Calvert (a.k.a Lord Baltimore); A refuge for Christians |
Who Founded New York & Why Was it Founded | The Duke of York (a.k.a Peter Minuit); Trading posts by the harbors |
Who Founded Rhode Island & Why Was it Founded | Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson; Banished from Massachusetts Bay |
Who Founded Connecticut & Why Was it Founded | Thomas Hooker; Jobs, industries, trading, economy, religious freedom |
Who Founded New Hampshire & Why Was it Founded | John Mason & John Wheelwright; For profit from trade |
Who Founded Delaware & Why Was it Founded | Peter Minuit and The Sweden Company; Trade profit from iron, fur, and coal |
Who Founded North Carolina & Why Was it Founded | Lords, proprietors, and aristocrats; Profit from trade and selling land |
Who Founded South Carolina & Why Was it Founded | Lords, proprietors, and aristocrats; Profit from trade and selling land |
Who Founded New Jersey & Why Was it Founded | Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret; Profit from selling land |
Who Founded Pennsylvania & Why Was it Founded | William Penn; Quakers, members of the Religious Society of Friends, needed religious freedom from Great Britain |
Who Founded Georgia & Why Was it Founded | James Oglethorpe; Religious freedom, protection against Spanish Florida, and as a jail for prisoners. |