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13 Cards in this Set
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Founded by John Winthrop; first settled as Plymouth Colony by Puritans; became Massachusetts and Maine
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Massachusetts Bay
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First led by John Cutt; important port city of Portsmouth
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New Hampshire
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Founded by Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson, who sought religious freedom outside of Massachusetts Bay; originally owned by Narragansett
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Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
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Incorporated Saybrook and New Haven colonies
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Connecticut
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Replaced the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, which had been led by Peter Minuit and Peter Stuyvesant from modern New York City
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New York
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Site of Revolutionary War battles of Trenton and Princeton
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New Jersey
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Founded by William Penn with Quaker leadership; home to Benjamin Franklin's hospital and fire station, as well as the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia; southern border determined by the Mason–Dixon Line
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Pennsylvania
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Originally a set of lower counties" of Pennsylvania"
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Delaware
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Founded by Cecil Calvert and Lord Baltimore as a Catholic colony but with legal tolerance for Protestants
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Maryland
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Home to Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in N. America where John Rolfe grew tobacco, and the House of Bergesses, the first elected legislative assembly in N. America; suffered Bacon's Rebellion
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Virginia
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John Locke helped write the 1669 Fundamental Constitution of the Carolinas; site of a Revolutionary War battle at Guilford Courthouse
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North Carolina
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Broke from North Carolina in 1712; site of the Stono slave rebellion and the Revolutionary War Battle of Cowpens
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South Carolina
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Founded by James Oglethorpe as a debtor colony and to buffer against Spanish Florida; northeastern border formed by the Savannah River
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Georgia
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