Things to know about the colonies

Harbors, bays and rich soil help colony become known as breadbasket

Puritans started it for religious freedom

Shipbuilding industry depended on lumber

Farming easier because rich soil and access to harbors

Only white males who owned property was allowed to vote

Colony founded so debtors could pay for freedom

James Oglethorpe was founder

The name of first successful settlement in New World

New England: Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island

Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Delaware

Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia