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- georgia
- intended as a colony for english debtors but settled mostly by farmers and tradesmen
- conneticut
- puritans from overcrowded massachusets found its land rocky and fertile so they petitioned the crown for a charter
- new york
- bought from the indians with a few trinkets and run by iron-fisted peter stuyvesent
- rhode island
- founded by roger williams who treated the native americans as equals and defended religous liberty and seperation of church and state
- pensylvania
- founded by a quaker who treated native americans fairly and permitted religious equality for all
- north carolina
- home of yeoman farmers and pirates
- new hampshire
- originally part of the massachusets colony the king gave it to his freind george mason as a seperate propiatory colony with its personal charter
- massachusets
- home of the pilgrims and puritans it once includeed present day maine
- maryland
- propietary colony owned by teh calverts, it offered a haven for catholics and religious freedom to all
- deleware
- originally settled by the swedes who lost the colony to the dutch who in turn lost it to the english
- south carolina
- settled mostly by from the carribean who brought enslaved africans to work in rice plantations
- new jersey
- originally a dutch colony with a patroon farm system. the english king gave it to two of his freinds
- virginia
- home to some of the first english settlersin north america it flourished because of tobacco plantiations