The Mayflower was
the ship which the Pilgrims sailed
on to get to America.
The largest city
in the 13 colonies was Philadelphia.
People in a Puritan
colony had strict rules.
Roger Williams
believed that religion should be separate
from the government.
The Puritans
founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Settlers in the middle
colonies came from Sweden, Germany, and The Netherlands.
New England had poor farmland but good harbors.
The colony of New Netherland
was established to trade with the
Native Americans, to settle the area
and to make the owners of the Dutch West
Indies Company rich.
Quakers believed that all people are equal.
New York City was
once call New Amsterdam.
The colonists declared
their independence from Britain in Philadelphia
in 1776.
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