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4953576826Virginia•joint stock company •Chief Powhatan •John Smith •Promise of free land after 7 years of labor •tobacco •John Rolfe •indentured servants •William Berkeley0
4953576827Maryland•first propriety colony •Lord Baltimore (Cecilius Calvert) •tobacco1
4953576828Plymouth•Pilgrims/Separatists •William Bradford •Mayflower Compact2
4953576829Massachusetts Bay•John Winthrop •refuge for persecuted Christians •the trading company became the gov3
4953576830Rhode Island•Roger Williams •Anne Hutchinson •religious refuge •separation of church and state4
4953576831Connecticut•Thomas Hooker •self-governing •fundamental orders of commonwealth •Christian commonwealth, but voting wasn't limited to church members5
4953576832New Hampshire•John Mason •became a royal colony6
4953576833Maine•Fernando Gorges •taken over by Massachusetts (its proprietor)7
4953576834The Carolinas•Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina •encourage practice of large land grants •SC became royal •NC remained under proprietors' rule8
4953576835New Netherland (New York)•profit-making enterprise •Peter Minuit •religious pluralism9
4953576836New Jersey•George Carteret •originally east and west jersey10
4953576837Pennsylvania•Quakers •William Penn •religious tolerance •proprietary gov11
4953576838Georgia•James Oglethorpe •royal colony •effective gov12

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