what are some similarities between the 13 colonies ?

Question

differences would also be helpful....

Answer 1

Each was 'a new society,' an experiment in colonization, but for those in New England, it was a concious effort to forge a new Nation, a haven for their religious beliefs & values. In time othe Religious Refugees founded colonies in particular the Quakers in Philladelphia, Catholics in Maryland, Dissenters of all sorts in Newport Rhode Island.
The Southern Colonies fell into a dependency on credit, selling 'an evil insidious weed' (King James I's words) on credit - - - - perhaps suffering malarial fever, Virginians and Carolinians adopt slavery and are far less industrious than the Middle and New England Colonies. As said they develope a credit lifestyle dependent on England and World Markets for Tobacco and in time Indigo and Rice but only after the Colonial period was Cotton a viable crop.

All the colonies were Religious in a Religious Age but each colony had differing predominant faiths. New York which was once New Amsterdam and Dutch was the most Urbane International in Outlook and played host to Angicans and Dutch Reformed and even Jews. Virginians had a reputation for being irreligious, their Minsters asigned from distant England often reviled and scorned.

New England was focused on the family and their population grew beyond its borders, fighting with New York over the Vermont Grants, and dreaminng of seizing Canada, at first from the French, then later from the English - - - and a few New Englanders were mingling with Virginians across Appalachian Mountains in Ohio country, these two colonies taking the lead in driving off the Native population and seizing their land.
Pennsylvania had lots of land and populated it at the expense of the Natives with avigorous policy of encouraging migrants, most German, hard working industous Middle Class - - - none of this 'your tired your poor' mantra, Colonial times demanded people of means..... The Germans were to become second to the English in numbers swiftly outnumbing the Dutch - - - and the Natives who were dying of disease & warfare....

Enough it is late, good luck...

Peace...

New Hampshire calls itself America's Smallest Sea Coast, its principal city is Portsmouth...... Philladelphia was a bustling Seaport on a River emptying into Chesapeake Bay....

Answer 2

The key answer is that all thirteen had the same mother country to which they were beholding - England. All were on the eastern seaboard and had ocean ports - I think even New Hampshire had a small area on the Atlantic originally. The differences were myriad and would require several pages to discuss taking each in turn.

Answer 3

England.