Across
- 2. founded Massachusetts in 1620 because they wanted some Religious freedom so they separated from the Anglican Church and went to the new world. Their charter wanted them to go near Jamestown because that was the only place they had power but they went 600 miles north of it so they could make their own rules.
- 4. founded South Carolina along with seven other members of the nobility after they all received a charter from the king to allow them to make their colony.
- 7. founded Maryland after he applied for a charter from the king which was approved and after he died it got passed down to his son.
- 10. founded Connecticut with a group of puritans to look for religious freedom and then decided a random place was a good place to settle down and decided to make a town called Hartford there.
- 11. founded North Carolina in 1585 under Queen Elizabeth the first and made two colonies there.
- 12. founded Rhode Island for religious liberty and he landed near Boston and decided to make a new colony so he kinda just copied William Penn.
- 13. founded Pennsylvania as the son of an admiral in the British navy and went to oxford but then got expelled for joining the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers which is why Pennsylvania has such a large Quacker population because it was founded as a safe haven for all Quackers.
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- 1. New Jersey was technically founded by Henry Hudson for Holland but later it was claimed by England and was named after the island in Jersey in the English channel.
- 3. founded New Hampshire under a land grant from England to start a fishing colony which is what he did and that was really it.
- 5. founded Georgia with his unfortunate name founded it as a colony for debtors so they didn’t have to go to debtor’s jail in Britain and so they could make the money back
- 6. founded New York when he bought the island of Manhattan from the natives who were living there for 24 dollars, which is $1,143 U.S. dollars in today's money, and founded a colony called New Amsterdam which later became New york.
- 8. founded Virginia in 1607 because he wanted to get really rich but then there wasn’t that much money there so he didn’t get very rich and they had a really long war with the natives which caused a lot of people to die.
- 9. also founded Delaware along with Pennsylvania but eventually, Delaware split off from PA and formed their own colony.