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