1. The 13 Original Colonies Click to Continue

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3. Massachusetts Year Founded 1620 (Plymouth) 1630 (Mass Bay) ReasonReligious Freedom Other Info Founders of Plymouth set out their government in the Mayflower Compact

4. New Hampshire Year Founded 1620 ReasonTrade and Fishing Other Info

5. Rhode Island Year Founded 1636 Roger Williams ReasonReligious Freedom Other Info Tolerance

6. New York Year Founded 1624 ReasonTrade Other Info Was once a Dutch colony proprietary colony

7. Pennsylvania Year Founded 1682 ReasonReligious Freedom Other Info Quakers, William Penn

8. Connecticut Year Founded 1635 ReasonTrade, Religious Freedom, and Political Freedom Other Info The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, the first written constitution in America

9. New Jersey Year Founded 1638 ReasonProfit from selling land Other Info

10. Delaware Year Founded 1638 ReasonTrade Other Info

11. Maryland Year Founded 1634 ReasonReligious Freedom (Catholics) Other Info

12. Virginia Year Founded 1607, Jamestown ReasonTrade Other Info First successful British colony in North America

13. North Carolina Year Founded 1660 ReasonTrade(tabacco) Other Info

14. South Carolina Year Founded 1670 ReasonTrade Other Info

15. Georgia Year Founded 1733 ReasonReligious Freedom, buffer zone between Spain, place for debtors Other Info