Pronoy’s Colonial Memorization Aid
1. First two are the oldest, you should be knowing that
2. Second two are the ones with religious freedom...in alphabetical order
3. Third two are three C's Connecticut, NC and SC (in alphabetical order)
4. The next three are the "new colonies" in reverse alphabetical order
5. The first letters of each of the next two also stand for "Police Department"
6. The last are the leftovers in reverse alphabetical order
First Representative govt (house of burgesses)
First written Self governing document Mayflower Compact (later bicameralness)
First Written religious tolerance (Toleration act of 1649)
First complete religious tolerance (the progress: whoopee)
First Constitution (Fundamental Orders of 1639)
Pwns NC
English go "Mein City!" (rammstein song) from Dutch
Gives to East to Berkeley and West to Carteret (notice E/W and B/C are in parallel alphabetical
order)
Mass's Punishment and also weak
Quakerland
English go "Mein Colony!" from Dutch
Existing Under the Influence of SC
Ghetto-land ==> debtors, criminals, and "buffer zone"
Little English Dude leaves England because the city screwed him over (IR). He wanted to find the
Northwest Passage and Gold and Silver and send the Spanish and French
www.spainandfrance.justgotowned.com . He wanted to make those pesky pagans christians and a global
economy for good luck.
1607 - Virginia
1620 - Plymouth
1630 - Massachusetts a DECADE later
1634 - Maryland
1636 - 2 years later, 2 colonies Rhode Island and Connecticut
1663 - last two numbers switched around - NC and SC
1664 - 1 year later, NY and NJ hooray
1680 - last was 8x8...this is 8x10....NH
1682 - 2 years later, 2 colonies the "PD" (Penn and Del)
1733 - the straggler - Georgia
All the New England colonies were self-governing (except NH because royals took it away-became royal
govt)
NJ was proprietary until 1702 because propretiors screwed up - becomes royal
All other colonies were proprietary
