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The Puritans were English Protestants in the 1600 and 1700 who wanted to "purify" the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and needed to become more Protestant.
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Virginia was the first permanent colony in America and was created in 1607, May 14th. It was founded by John Smith and other colonist and was named after Queen Elizabeth I
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The Seperatists were English Protestants who used the wing of Puritanism. The Separatists were severely critical of the Church of England and wanted to either destroy it or separate from it.
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representatives met from 1619 until 1776. The members, or burgesses, were elected from each county in Virginia with each county sending two burgesses.
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony was found in 1620 by Pilgrims but later found in 1630 by John Winthrop and they made all of their money and food by Whaling, Fishing, and Lumbering.
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New Hampshire was founded by John Mason and other colonists in 1623. It was named after where John Mason was raised, Hampshire county. The 3rd colony to be made
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Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson 1636, after he spent a winter with the indians he finally bought some land from the Narragansett Indians.
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Puritan minister Thomas Hooker and Governor John Haynes of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establish River Colony, later called Connecticut.
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Peter Minuit of the Netherlands establishes a colony called New Sweden. Minuit later is forced to give up the colony when King Charles II takes control of the area called "New Netherland" and tells him to give it to his brother James, the Duke of York. James renames New Sweden Delaware.
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With the Duke of York in control of the Dutch trading post, he renamed it New York. The city the Dutch called New Amsterdam became New York City.
