So colonists could self-govern

Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island

Reasons for Europeans exploration

Mayflower Compact, Virginia House of Burgesses, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Plantation System

Establish the tradition of self-government

Refuge for English Puritans

Refuge for English Catholics

Anne Hutchinson

Pilgrims wanted to practice their own religion without being persecuted.

1694- He was the founder of Maryland, a colony which offered religious freedom, and a refuge for the persecuted Roman Catholics.

All people were equal in the eyes of God (equality)

Provided a basis for self-government in Plymouth

Long growing season, warm, wet

Cold, short growing season

By rivers and coastlines

Pennsylvania

Came to the Americas to practice their religion without persecution

First representative assembly in the American colonies

Holding town meetings to discuss local issues

the desire to form self-government, steps towards representative government

Economic profits

Colonies were too far away from England

Both the government and church have a common purpose of promoting virtue

An economic system where the mother country England benefited from its colonies

The first successful English colony