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13 Colonies     

Early Colonization

Colonial government and documents   

Important people for developing self-government  

English form of government         

Mercantilism 

Exploration

Native Cultures

13 Colonies 

Okay so we have to make this fun and interesting but this 

is pretty hard to do so we are going to try our best. The 

13 Colonies consists of 3 different colonies. New england, 

Middle and Southern colonies. Each of the 13 colonies had 

specific economic, social, and political development that 

were unique to there regions and locations in colonial 

america. So to get a little more educational we are going 

to tell you more about each colonie. For New england life 

in the colonie was hard. Everyone in the house helped 

with chores. Even though the soil was poor most families 

still tried to have farms. 

Enough with the New england colonie and 

now onto the Middle colonies. In the middle 

the where put into classes and these classes 

where very important to everyone there in the 

colonie. They had 3 different classes. The rich 

and best educated where know as the gentry. 

Then there was the middle class who where 

usually farmers or small merchants and then the 

lower class witch where sailors and apprentices. 

Early Colonizations

 There is so much that I need to cover so I'm about 

to do the best I can. Lets start with James town 

1607. Disease and famine took a tremendous toll 

on the population of the colony. Then on May 14, 

in Virginia company explorers landed on 

Jamestown to establish the Virginia English colony 

on the river banks of James River.Then on June 

1606 King James the first granted the virginia 

company to establish a English settlement in the 

Chesapeake region of North America. Now onto 

Pilgrims, Puritans and Quakers. Lets start off with 

Pilgrims. They are travelers who was on a journey 

to a holy place. 

History on the pilgrims, they are common in so 

many religions such as ancient egypt, Persia in the 

Mithraic period, India, China and Japan. Now about 

Puritans, They were a group of english protestants 

in the 16th and 17th centuries, including, but is not 

limited to, English Calvinists. This group was 

founded by some Marian Exiles. In modern times 

Puritans mean against pleasure. But in history term 

the word was used to characterized the group as 

extremists. Then last there are the Quakers. Quakers 

are members of the Religious Society of Friends, a 

faith that emerged as a new Christian denomination in 

England during a period of religious turmoil in the mid-

1600's and is practiced today in a variety of forms 

around the world. To members of this religion, the 

words "Quaker"and "Friend" mean the same thing.

Colonial government and documents 

So I'm going to cover 3 different important 

things you need to know. Like the Mayflower 

Compact. The Mayflower compact was the first 

governing document of plymouth colony. Then 

there is this thing called the Virgina House of 

Burgesses. Witch is and elected or appointed 

offical of a municipality or the representative of 

a borough. Now I'm going to tell you about the 

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. The 

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut where 

adopted by the Connecticut colony council on 

January 14 1639. That was also my birthday. 

Not really I'm only 13 and I was born in July.

Important people for developing self-

government 

So there is about 4 main people who helped out 

with developing self-government. There is Thomas 

Hooker and he helped discover the the 

fundamental orders of connecticut, which gave the 

right to all men who owned land to vote. Then 

there is this guy named Charles de Montesquiew 

and he believed that all things are made up of rules 

and or laws that never changed. He went out to 

study these laws with the hope of knowledge of 

laws of government would improve human lifes. 

William Blacksmith was noted for writing the 

commentaries on the laws of england. Then last 

but not least there is William Penn he really just 

sat back and watched. No, Just kidding he 

granted colonist the right to elect representative 

to the legislative assembly in 1702. 

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