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Massachusetts

Year Founded

1620 (Plymouth)1630 (Mass Bay)

Reason Religious FreedomReligious Freedom

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Founders of Plymouth set out their government in the Mayflower Compact

New Hampshire

Year Founded

1620

Reason Trade and Fishing

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Rhode Island

Year Founded

1636

Reason Religious Freedom

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New York

Year Founded

1624

Reason Trade

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Was once a Dutch colony

Pennsylvania

Year Founded

1682

Reason Religious Freedom

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Connecticut

Year Founded

1635

Reason Trade, Religious Freedom, and

Political Freedom

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The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, the first written constitution in America

New Jersey

Year Founded

1638

Reason Profit from selling land

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Delaware

Year Founded

1638

Reason Trade

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Maryland

Year Founded

1634

Reason Religious Freedom

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Virginia

Year Founded

1607

Reason Trade

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First successful British colony in North America

North Carolina

Year Founded

1660

Reason Trade

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South Carolina

Year Founded

1670

Reason Trade

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Georgia

Year Founded

1733

Reason Religious Freedom, buffer zone between

Spain, place for debtors

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