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6751663999Virginia•joint stock company •Chief Powhatan •John Smith •Promise of free land after 7 years of labor •tobacco •John Rolfe •indentured servants •William Berkeley0
6751664000Maryland•first propriety colony •Lord Baltimore (Cecilius Calvert) •tobacco1
6751664001Plymouth•Pilgrims/Separatists •William Bradford •Mayflower Compact2
6751664002Massachusetts Bay•John Winthrop •refuge for persecuted Christians •the trading company became the gov3
6751664003Rhode Island•Roger Williams •Anne Hutchinson •religious refuge •separation of church and state4
6751664004Connecticut•Thomas Hooker •self-governing •fundamental orders of commonwealth •Christian commonwealth, but voting wasn't limited to church members5
6751664005New Hampshire•John Mason •became a royal colony6
6751664006Maine•Fernando Gorges •taken over by Massachusetts (its proprietor)7
6751664007The Carolinas•Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina •encourage practice of large land grants •SC became royal •NC remained under proprietors' rule8
6751664008New Netherland (New York)•profit-making enterprise •Peter Minuit •religious pluralism9
6751664009New Jersey•George Carteret •originally east and west jersey10
6751664010Pennsylvania•Quakers •William Penn •religious tolerance •proprietary gov11
6751664011Georgia•James Oglethorpe •royal colony •effective gov12

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