![]() ![]() ![]() Delaware was founded by the Swedes (New Sweden), became a Dutch colony in 1655, and then came under English control in 1664. New York was originally New Netherland before the English took it over in 1664 and renamed it. ![]() Moreover, colonial boundaries changed New Hampshire was carved out of land claimed by Massachusetts Bay. Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the Carolinas were proprietary colonies, based on grants of land to individuals or a small group of men by the king. Although all eventually came under direct control of the English kings, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, and Virginia began as corporate colonies financed by joint‐stock companies. Religion was the factor behind the founding of Maryland and the New England colonies, particularly Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, and Rhode Island, while the settlers in Virginia and the other southern colonies were more concerned with growing tobacco. The English colonies along the east coast of North America in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries can be categorized in several ways. Grant Administration Reconstruction Ends.Resistance to and the Defense of Slavery.Antebellum America: Recreation, Leisure.Economic Growth and Development 1815–1860.Chesapeake Colonies: Virginia, Maryland.Seventeenth Century Colonial Settlements.Portuguese Explorations and West Africa. ![]()
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