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0: Plymouth, MA
Colony: Plymouth
Date: 1620
Founded by: Pilgrims
Reasons: Religious Freedom
Importance: Mayflower Compact Signed
Más sobre Plymouth, MA1: Massachusetts Bay, MA
Colony: Massachusetts Bay
Date: 1630
Founded by: Puritans; Massachusetts Bay Company
Reasons: Religious freedom; be a "City On a Hill"
Importance: Representative Government
Más sobre Massachusetts Bay, MA2: New Hampshire
Colony: New Hampshire (and Maine)
Date: 1622
Founded by: John Mason
Reasons: Profit from trade and fishing
Importance: Colonists from Massachusetts move into area; by 1650s it is under Massachusetts control
Más sobre New Hampshire3: Connecticut
Colony: Connecticut
Date: 1636
Founded by: Thomas Hooker
Reasons: Expansion of trade, religious and political freedoms
Importance: Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Más sobre Connecticut4: Rhode Island
Colony: Rhode Island
Date: 1636
Founded by: Roger Williams (buys from Narrangansetts)
Reasons: Religious toleration
Importance: Separates church and state, unlike Massachusetts Bay
Más sobre Rhode Island5: New Netherlands
Colony: New Netherlands
Date: 1624
Founded by: Dutch under Peter Minult
Reasons: Trade, religious freedom
Importance: Diverse population
Más sobre New Netherlands6: New York, NY
Colony: New York
Date: 1664
Founded by: Royal charter from Charles II to his brother, James, Duke of York
Reasons: Take land from rival Dutch
Importance: Diverse populations
Más sobre New York, NY7: Delaware
Colony: Delaware
Date: 1682
Founded by: Land grant to William Penn, proprietary colony
Importance: Allows PA a coastline
Más sobre Delaware8: New Jersey
Colony: New Jersey
Date: 1664
Founded by: Lord Berkeley, Sir George Calvert as a proprietary colony
Reasons: Division of New York because it was too large to govern
Importance: Few colonists; many Native American lands
Más sobre New Jersey9: Pennsylvania
Colony: Pennsylvania
Date: 1682
Founded by: William Penn as a proprietary colony
Reasons: Religious and political freedoms
Importance: Holy Experiment
Más sobre Pennsylvania10: Jamestown, VA 23185
Colony: Jamestown
Date: 1607
Founded by: Virginia Company
Reasons: Trade, Farming
Importance: Self-government under House of Burgesses; first permanent English colony
Más sobre Jamestown, VA 2318511: Maryland
Colony: Maryland
Date: 1632
Founded by: Land grant from Charles I to Lord Baltimore; then to his son
Reasons: Religious and political freedoms
Importance: Act of Toleration
Más sobre Maryland12: Carolinas
Colony: The Carolinas
Date: 1663
Founded by: land grant from Charles II to eight proprietors
Reasons: Trade, farming, religious freedom
Importance: Rice and indigo crops lead to slavery developments
Más sobre Carolinas13: Georgia
Colony: Georgia
Date: 1732
Founded By: James Oglethorpe as a proprietary colony
Reasons: Haven for debtors; buffer against Spanish Florida
Importance: Small farms and no slavery at first (but both grow)
Más sobre Georgia