What are the reasons for founding the 13 colonies?

Answer 1

The colonies were foundational areas set for trade. North America was abundant with beans, cocoa, corn, peanuts, potatoes, pumpkins, squash, sweet potatoes, tobacco, tomatoes, and turkeys that set up the basis for trade. Europe, traded bananas, cattle, citrus fruits, grains, grapes, honeybees, horses, peaches, Pears, pigs, and sugarcane. Although these were the intentional trades, there were also diseases, that killed entire empires and tribes. Tobacco and other cash crops grown in the Americas created a new trade, in the southern colonies. The basis upon the South was agriculture. But they required large amounts of people to work these crops, creating a slave trade. The New England Colonies used manufacturing to create a profit. Merchants, fishing, shipbuilding, created skilled craftspeople in this area, forcing the need for better education. The middle colonies was a combination of both the north and the south. They grew staple crops, used slaves, but mostly indentured servants, they brought shipbuilding and merchants combined with these crops to create their economy.

The Economy (I do not know much about the social reasons besides religious intolerance.)

Answer 2

Well, there wasn't really. I mean there were various companies that at various times through the early 1700's that asked the King for permission to build an English settlement on English land. Now with the first few colonies, like Jamestown, or Plymouth, Basically the King said you can go and claim this land in the name of England.

Then when England basically claimed the East Coast as theirs, if a Company wanted to establish a colony there, they would go to the King, who of course owned all that land, and he would give them a Charter, saying you can build and then farm or whatever within this area, essentially a commonwealth or colony. Then that company would go there, for whatever reason they wanted to.

If it was for establishing Carolina, they would go there, establish the city of Charles Town (later Charleston) and then invite settlers with money to come and establish plantations, or businesses in the town to support those plantations with whatever supplies they needed. That would then generate money for the company and for the King who would have taxes, and maybe some profit from the deal he made.

So economically, in this way, there would be profit from the Cash Crops that couldn't be grown in Europe.

However it should be noted, that several colonies, like Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, were founded by people who wanted Religious Freedom, and they only were looking to make enough to survive as a secondary objective.

There was also Georgia, which was established as a colony to send prisoners from Debtors Prison when their terms were up.

As well as North Carolina which broke away from the rest of Carolina because those people were being treated as inferior by the blue blood aristocrats in Charleston, and the economic means were different between North and South Carolina.

so really the reason for economic reason was cause of the cash crops that couldn't be grown in eroupe

Answer 3

The ultimate political objective was freedom and independence and to initiate a democratic system.

Answer 4

most of the 13 colonies were founded for religious freedom but some of them were founded for profit and economic reasons.