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The year was 1638, James Wheelwright fled Massachusetts and gathered people who agreed. They founded town of Exeter. Eventually in 1679 it became the independent colony north of Massachusetts.

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what's a chusetts and why is there a massive amount of them

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Sep, 16th. 1620 The mayflower was headed for Virginia. They ended up drifting too far north and decided to settle where they were. This was the start of New England, they signed the Mayflower Compact. They settled in Plymouth not long after.

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After Massachusetts started banishing people for believing that church and state shouldn't be the same. A previous minister of Massachusetts and his congress followed by Anne Hutchinson went on to make the Rhode island and Providence plantations. (Providence was mad by the ministry and congress).

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1636. Thomas Hooker, a minister didn't appreciate John Winthrop's lead. He led congregation to found Hartford, Connecticut. Hartford and two towns mashed together made the colony. The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut was the first written constitution in NA.

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It was a place where religious outcast called quakers could live freely. The land was gifted from the king to Williams Penn. For some reason it grew rapidly and soon was one of the largest cities. Being named after The guy who owns it founded 1681.

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what happened to the old one (definitely still funny) 

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1664. The English sent a fleet because they wanted to take New Netherlands. After they gave it up it was renamed New York, obviously named after the Duke of York. it became a proprietary colony.

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The Duke of York Gave some land to Lord John Berkley and Sir George Carteret out of the kindness of his heart. It was named New Jersey. They overfed big portions of land to get settlers, due to New Jersey not having a harbor it was hard. They sold the colony into the king's control in 1702

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The little brother of Pennsylvania, It was a part of Pennsylvania but was allowed to govern itself. Thus most of the story is shared with Pennsylvania.

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Founded in 1632 by George Calvert, Maryland had much controversy over religion. Having been founded as a safe place for Catholics, even so protestants moved there to which sparked fighting. The Act of Toleration was set in place to stop anyone for persecution over religion but over time protestants took over the government, revoking it.

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The first colony(that was successful) in America. founded in the early year of 1607. They went through harsh times not knowing what to expect. One of the unexpected things were Indigenous people. There was a lot of impactful people along the way and one was john smith who got the colony up to survivable standards. Even after a long time of conflict it's still a pretty not cool place.

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most of the people here were virgins(from Virginia)

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The name derived from King Charles, North Carolina founded in 1663. The people who lived here mostly moved from Virginia. North and South Carolina had difficulties ruling as one. Which was solved later.

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Even thought my joke made it sound boring and insignificant. South Carolina was mostly English people who were more interested in farming and religious tolerance. They liked the idea of self governing and eventually were able to become a Royal colony.

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The last British colony, Georgia. Founded 1732 by James Oglethorpe. It was an established colony to collect debt and to give the poor a new start. It was a very strict colony but eventual Oglethorpe gave up. It then went on to become a royal colony, 1752.