Colonies
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- The theroy of a nation becoming strong by keeping strict control over its trade
- Mercantilism
- Did the English colonies have gold?
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No
Only Spanish colonies did - William Bradford
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Plymouth
Pilgrims
Religous freedom - John Winthrop
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Mass. Bay
Pilgrims
Religous freedom - Roger Williams
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Rhode Island
Left Mass.- religous diferences w/ Puritans - Thomas Hooker
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Conneticut
Left Mass. for religous freedom - Gorges & Mason
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New Hampshire
Colonists went north in search of land for settlement - Peter Styvesant
- New Netherlands
- Peter Minuit
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New York
Land and farming/expand trading- grew most crops - Berkely & Carteret
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New Jersey
Land & farming-religous freedom - Swedish Settlers
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Delaware
Expand trade - William Penn
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Penn.
Quaker(friends)- Religous/political freedom
*only colony to give religous freedom 2 all - John Smith
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Virgnia(Jamestown)
Trade & farming - Lord Baltimore
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Maryland
Religous freedom except
Jews -haven for Cathloics - 8 Buisnessmen
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N. & S. Carolina
Trade & farming - James Olglethrope
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Georgia
1. Home for debtors
2. buffer against Spanish Flordia - **Walter Raleigh
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Roanoke
"Lost Colony"
(1585)