Distinctive Features of the 13 Colonies: 
Economical activities, Religion, and some influent figures which would be prominent.
Economical activities, Religion, and some influent figures which would be prominent.
C. 
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Name 
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Foundation and settlers 
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Year 
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Products 
 | 
  
Features 
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Religion 
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Figures 
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MASS
  Massachusetts 
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As Plymouth
  Colony  
& Mass. Bay Colony By Thomas Dudley, Winthdrop  | 
  
1620 
1630  | 
  
fishing, corn, livestock, lumbering, 
shipbuilding 
 | 
  
Salem witch trials. 1692-1693. 
 | 
  
Calvinist Puritans. There were some
  Congregationalists too. 
 | 
  
John Endecott 1st Gov. 
John Winthrop  
12 years Gov.  | 
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N. H. 
New Hampshire 
 | 
  
John Wheelwright 
 | 
  
1623 
 | 
  
potatoes, fishing, textiles, shipbuilding 
 | 
  
Royal colony 
 | 
  
Puritans 
 | 
  
Captain John Mason 
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CONN 
Connecticut  | 
  
Thomas Hooker 
puritans  | 
  
1635 
 | 
  
wheat, corn,  
fishing  | 
  
Formed to expand from Mass. Bay 
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Congregationalists 
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R. I. 
Rhode Island  | 
  
Roger
  Williams, theologian 
 | 
  
1636 
 | 
  
Agriculture (livestock, dairy, fishing),
  Manufacturing 
 | 
  
Williams was a puritan, then Baptist,
  banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony
  because of beliefs in religious freedom and the need for separation of Church
  and State 
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D 
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E 
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N. Y.  
New York  | 
  
Duke of York 
 | 
  
1664 
 | 
  
shipbuilding, iron works, cattle, grain,
  rice, wheat, indigo 
 | 
  
Settled by the Dutch 
 | 
  
Dutch Reformed and Anglicans. 
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PA 
Pennsylvania  | 
  
William
  Penn, Quaker. 
 | 
  
1682 
 | 
  
wheat, corn, cattle, dairy, textiles,
  papermaking, shipbuilding 
 | 
  
“Holy Experiment”. Equal before God. Pacifist
  groups. 1688, first American anti-slavery protest 
 | 
  
Quakers. Lutherans, Anabaptists,  Amish, Mennonites, Moravian 
 | 
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N. J.  
New Jersey 
 | 
  
Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret 
 | 
  
1664 
 | 
  
ironworking, lumbering 
 | 
  
Settled by Swedish, Dutch and English 
 | 
  
Lutherans, Dutch reformed, Quakers 
 | 
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DEL 
Delaware 
 | 
  
Peter Minuit & New Sweden Company 
 | 
  
1638 
 | 
  
Fishing,
  Lumbering 
 | 
  
Lutherans, Anglicans, Dutch Reformed 
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MD 
Maryland 
 | 
  
Lord Baltimore 
 | 
  
1634 
 | 
  
shipbuilding, iron works, corn, wheat, rice,
  indigo 
 | 
  
Catholicism 
 | 
  
Frederick Douglass 
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VA 
Virginia 
 | 
  
As Jamestown,
  by the London Company 
 | 
  
1607 
 | 
  
Plantation agriculture: tobacco, wheat, corn)
  - Cash crop 
 | 
  
Fertile land 
 | 
  
To convert natives to Christianity 
 | 
  
John Smith 
Pocahontas 
 | 
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N
  C 
North
  Carolina 
 | 
  
Virginians 
 | 
  
1653 
 | 
  
Plantation agriculture (indigo, rice,
  tobacco) 
 | 
  
Anglicans 
a few Baptists  | 
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S C 
South Carolina 
 | 
  
8 Nobles of Charles II 
 | 
  
1663 
 | 
  
Plantation agriculture (indigo, rice,
  tobacco, cotton, cattle) 
 | 
  
Sara and 
  Angelina Grimké (suffrage) 
 | 
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GA 
Georgia 
 | 
  
James Edward Oglethorpe 
 | 
  
1732 
 | 
  
indigo, rice, sugar 
 | 
  
Founded because of religious freedom.  Anglicans & Moravians 
 | 
  
MLK 
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