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6761280875Virginia (S)•Roanoke Island- two failed attempts •joint stock company •Chief Powhatan- De La Warr- Anglo-Powhattan War •John Smith- Pocohantas •Promise of free land after 7 years of labor •tobacco •John Rolfe •indentured servants •William Berkeley •Bacon's Rebellion •House of Burgesses0
6761280876Maryland (S)•first propriety colony 1634 •Lord Baltimore (Cecilius Calvert) •tobacco •Religious freedom to Catholics and all who believed in Jesus •Toleration Act of 16491
6761280877Massachusetts (N)•Pilgrims/Separatists •William Bradford- Great Migration- City on te Hill •Mayflower Compact •John Winthrop •refuge for persecuted Christians •the trading company became the gov •1637 Pequot War2
6761280878Rhode Island (N)•Roger Williams •Anne Hutchinson- Antinomialism •religious refuge •separation of church and state •One of the 1st baptist churches3
6761280879Connecticut (N)•Thomas Hooker- Led Puritans to Hartford •self-governing •fundamental orders of commonwealth •Christian commonwealth, but voting wasn't limited to church members First written constituion4
6761280880New Hampshire (N)•John Mason •became a royal colony •Last New England colonies5
6761280881Maine (N)•Fernando Gorges •taken over by Massachusetts (its proprietor)6
6761280882The Carolinas•Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina •encourage practice of large land grants •SC became royal •NC remained under proprietors' rule7
6761280883North Carolina (S)•Pirates and Squatters8
6761280884South Carolina (S)•Aristocratic colony9
6761280885New Netherland (New York) (M)•profit-making enterprise •Peter Minuit •religious pluralism •Duke of York10
6761280886New Jersey (M)•George Carteret •originally east and west jersey11
6761280887Pennsylvania (M)•Quakers •William Penn •religious tolerance •proprietary gov •Holy experiment12
6761280888Georgia (S)•James Oglethorpe •royal colony •effective •Debtor Haven and buffer13
6761280889Delaware (M)•Three lower counties of PA14

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