Who & Why the Colony was Founded
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| Who Founded Virginia & Why Was it Founded | The London Company and Cpt. John Smith; To find gold and to expand trade
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| Who Founded Massachusetts Bay/Plymouth Rock & Why Was it Founded | MB= Pilgrims ("Separatists"); Wanted religious freedom.
PR= John Winthrop & John Carver; To avoid religious persecution
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| Who Founded Maryland & Why Was it Founded | Cecil Calvert (a.k.a Lord Baltimore); A refuge for Christians
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| Who Founded New York & Why Was it Founded | The Duke of York (a.k.a Peter Minuit); Trading posts by the harbors
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| Who Founded Rhode Island & Why Was it Founded | Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson; Banished from Massachusetts Bay
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| Who Founded Connecticut & Why Was it Founded | Thomas Hooker; Jobs, industries, trading, economy, religious freedom
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| Who Founded New Hampshire & Why Was it Founded | John Mason & John Wheelwright; For profit from trade
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| Who Founded Delaware & Why Was it Founded | Peter Minuit and The Sweden Company; Trade profit from iron, fur, and coal
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| Who Founded North Carolina & Why Was it Founded | Lords, proprietors, and aristocrats; Profit from trade and selling land
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| Who Founded South Carolina & Why Was it Founded | Lords, proprietors, and aristocrats; Profit from trade and selling land
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| Who Founded New Jersey & Why Was it Founded | Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret; Profit from selling land
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| Who Founded Pennsylvania & Why Was it Founded | William Penn; Quakers, members of the Religious Society of Friends, needed religious freedom from Great Britain
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| Who Founded Georgia & Why Was it Founded | James Oglethorpe; Religious freedom, protection against Spanish Florida, and as a jail for prisoners.
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