Middle and Southern Colonies

founders for the colony of New Jersey

Berkeley and Carteret

Lord Baltimore began Maryland for the

Catholics

The written guarantee of New York colonists' rights was called

Charter of Liberties

colony purchased from the Duke of York by William Penn

Delaware

Oglethorpe did not allow slavery

Georgia

colony named after Sir George Carteret's English home

New Jersey

The colonies given in payment of debts

New Jersey and Pennsylvania

land grant to eight noblemen, became a colony of small individual farms

North Carolina

Penns woods

Pennsylvania

The Dutch governor of New Amsterdam

Peter Stuyvesant

The religious group that settled Philadelphia

Quakers

land grant to eight noblemen, became a colony of large slave owning estates

South Carolina

Toleration Act of 1649

established religious freedom for both Catholics and Protestants.

What were the benefits that Penn offered in order to draw settlers to his colony?

inexpensive land, religious freedom, and fair government