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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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