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Established:1607

It was a port and trading center.

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Established: 1620

This group decided that everything should be decided by the people.

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Established: 1623

The guy that created it never saw it.

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Established: 1632-1634

Maryland was founded to create a place for Roman Catholics who were still struggling against religious tyranny in England.

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Established: 1636

Connecticut was mostly made up of people looking for freedom from government

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Established: 1636

When Roger Williams wanted to make changes in religion in Massachusetts, the government did not take it very well. They banished him to England, but instead he went to live with the Native Americans. They formed a group and called it Providence.

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Established: 1638

Delaware was originally a part of New Sweden, which also included Philadelphia and other parts of Pennsylvania. Later the king of England gained control over the portion east of the Delaware river and named it Delaware.

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Established: 1653

It started as one colonie. It eventually separated into two separate colonies and became called North and South Carolina.

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Established 1653

South Carolina was formed at the same time as North Carolina.

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Established: 1664

When the Duke of York recieved New Netherland as a gift, it was renamed New York in his honor

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Established: 1682

They wanted as many people to come and live there as possible, so they began to make promises about all the different things you could gain from the New World, such as fortune and freedom.

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Established: 1682

In 1682, William Penn, recieved land from his grandfather, who had recently passed away. Penn, a Quaker, wanted freedom of religion and protection from persecution for himself and others who might want the same thing. He had not been able to find this, so he started his own colony. He called it Pennsylvania.

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Established: 1732

James Oglethorpe asked the king for a land charter and was granted an unpopulated portion of land from the Carolina charter called Georgia after King George.