The Thirteen Colonies - Summary
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Colony |
Founded |
Founders |
Major Industry |
Major Cities |
Colony Named for |
Became a State |
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Massachusetts |
1630 |
John Winthrop and others |
fishing, corn, livestock, lumbering, shipbuilding |
Boston, Quincy, Plymouth, Salem, Lexington, Concord |
Massachusetts tribe (word means "large hill place") |
February 6, 1788 |
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New Hampshire |
1638 |
John Wheelwright and others |
potatoes, fishing, textiles, shipbuilding |
Concord |
June 21, 1788 |
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Connecticut |
1636 |
Thomas Hooker and others |
wheat, corn, fishing |
Hartford, New Haven |
from an Algonquin word, quinnehtukqut, "beside the long tidal river" |
February 6, 1788 |
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New York |
1626 |
Peter Minuit and others |
shipbuilding, iron works, cattle, grain, rice, indigo, wheat |
New York City, Albany |
July 26, 1788 |
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New Jersey |
1664 |
English colonists |
ironworking, lumbering |
Trenton, Princeton |
December 18, 1787 |
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Pennsylvania |
1682 |
William Penn and others |
wheat, corn, cattle, dairy, textiles, papermaking, shipbuilding |
Philadelphia, Lancaster, York |
December 12, 1787 |
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Delaware |
1638 |
Peter Minuit and others |
Fishing, lumbering |
Wilmington |
named for the Delaware tribe and for an early governor of colonial Virginia, Lord de la Warr |
December 7, 1787 |
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Maryland |
1633 |
Lord Baltimore and others |
shipbuilding, iron works, corn, wheat, rice, indigo |
Baltimore, Annapolis |
April 28, 1788 |
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Virginia |
1607 |
John Smith and others |
Plantation agriculture (tobacco, wheat, corn |
Jamestown, Williamsburg, Richmond |
England's "Virgin Queen," Elizabeth I |
June 25, 1788 |
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North Carolina |
1653 |
Virginia colonists |
Plantation agriculture (indigo, rice, tobacco) |
Raleigh |
from Carolus, the Latin word for "Charles," Charles I of England |
November 21, 1789 |
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South Carolina |
1663 |
English colonists |
Plantation agriculture (indigo, rice, tobacco, cotton, cattle) |
Charleston |
from Carolus, the Latin word for "Charles," Charles I of England |
May 23, 1788 |
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Georgia |
1732 |
James Oglethorpe |
indigo, rice, sugar |
Savannah |
January 2, 1788 |
Thirteen Colonies – State Flags
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
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