If I were you, I'd do Plymouth (Plimoth) Colony or Massachusetts Bay Colony. They're the best known and have been studied to death. Connecticut Colony (Hartford) is another I'd not do.
That leaves two that are really interesting. One is Rhode Island. That was founded by Roger Williams, who really didn't get along with the folks over in Massachusetts. Roger was a dissenter, and Massachusetts didn't like dissenters. You'd get some good material there.
Anne Hutchinson, a famous dissenter, found refuge in Rhode Island for a while. Look up her biography.
Also, Rhode Island was the colony/state to ratify the U.S. Constitution (1791). Find out why. Rhode Island merchants were making money, and the constitution would have cost them tariff revenue. If Rhode Island refused to ratify, it would have been a foreign country.
So Rhode Island would be a good one.
The other one I'd look into is the New Haven Colony. Since it didn't survive to be one of the famous 13 colonies at the time of the Revolution, most people haven't even heard of it. But that's one reason why it would be a good (and unusual) topic for you.
New Haven was a spin-off of Massachusetts Bay, founded by Theophilus Eaton and John Davenport in 1638. It was separate from the Connecticut Colony, founded a bit earlier by Thomas Hooker in Hartford.
Eaton and Davenport had theological differences with the Boston Puritans, and that's why they moved to New Haven to found a new colony.
In about 1664 or 1665, New Haven merged with the Connecticut Colony, just as the Plymouth Colony merged into Massachusetts Bay.
I know a bit about the New Haven Colony because my ancestors were among the first settlers. They emigrated from England to Boston in 1635, then moved to New Haven four years later, the family remaining in Connecticut for several generations.
Movement in the early days of the New England colonies had everything to do with religion and religious differences, and I think that doing a project on either Rhode Island or New Haven would be good choices for you.
2006-09-20 04:02:16
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answered by bpiguy 7
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answered by Anonymous
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Massachusetts Bay
2006-09-20 01:25:13
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answered by maxima 5
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I agree with the poster who said Rhode Island - it was the anomaly of New England colonies as it was founded not on the precepts of any one religion but on the ideal of religious freedom.
2006-09-20 06:52:20
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answered by Koko Nut 5
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2006-09-20 01:24:37
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answered by Mr. Takafushi 5
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2006-09-20 01:26:20
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answered by savita singh 1
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