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==== Types of Colonies ==== | ==== Types of Colonies ==== | ||
[[File:A_history_of_the_American_nation_(1919)_(14595774548).jpg|thumb|264x264px|Types of colonies (from A history of the American nation 1919; Wikicommons)]] | |||
* Corporate Charter | * Corporate Charter | ||
* Proprietary Colony | * Proprietary Colony | ||
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[[File:Penncolony.png|thumb|Map of the Province of Pennsylvania|alt=Map of the Province of Pennsylvania]] | [[File:Penncolony.png|thumb|Map of the Province of Pennsylvania|alt=Map of the Province of Pennsylvania]] | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Roger Williams|Founder of Rhode Island; established religious tolerance}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Roger Williams|Founder of Rhode Island; established religious tolerance}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:yeoman|independent farmers and landowners, who lived and farmed independently but without amassing great wealth; the "yeoman society" contrasted with the legacies of Old World feudal structures in which great landowners had tenant farmers; the yeoman ideal was independence, land ownership and local self-government, especially in New England; in Virginia the yeoman farmers contrasted with and political opposed plantation owners}}</ul | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:yeoman|independent farmers and landowners, who lived and farmed independently but without amassing great wealth; the "yeoman society" contrasted with the legacies of Old World feudal structures in which great landowners had tenant farmers; the yeoman ideal was independence, land ownership and local self-government, especially in New England; in Virginia the yeoman farmers contrasted with and political opposed plantation owners}}</ul> | ||
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