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| Rhode Island | One of the largest slave auctions was held in this New England colony |
| Connecticut | This New England colony wrote the fundamental orders of the first constitution of the 13 colonies |
| New Hampshire | This New England colony was started as an overflow of those in Massachusetts seeking religious freedom |
| New York | This Middle colony had a large slave population and was formally New Netherlands until it was taken over by the British and renamed |
| Religion and Money | The Middle colonies and the rest of the 13 colonies were founded for these two reasons |
| New Jersey | This Middle colony broke away from one of the other middle colonies and was divided into two colonies (east and west) unit it was reunited as a royal colony |
| Carolina | Started by 8 aristocrats (gentlemen); these two Southern colonies before they divided into North and South were know as... |
| Georgia | This Southern colony was the 13th; started by James Oglethorpe with prisoners who were in jail for not paying their debts; at first the colony did NOT allow slavery or alcohol |
