Term
Massachusetts
Characteristic
Settled by Roger Williams
New Hampshire Founded By Puritans
Connecticut
Mass. Dissidents led by John Wheelwright
Rhode Island
First Written Constitution
New York
Religious Refuge for Quakers
New Jersey
Taken from the Dutch
Pennsylvania
Colony with Freedoms to attract settlers
Delaware
Splinter from Penn. By the Charter of Liberties
Maryland
First Colony
Virginia
Colony for Debtors to get a Fresh Chance
North Carolina
Set up as a refuge for Catholics
South Carolina
Capital was major trading port Charleston
Georgia
Major Goods were Tobacco, Tar, & Timber