Match the colony with its description.

1. land grant to eight noblemen, became a colony of small individual farms
Pennsylvania
2. land grant to eight noblemen, became a colony of large slave owning estates
South Carolina
3. colony named after Sir George Carteret's English home
Delaware
4. Penn's woods
Georgia
5. colony purchased from the Duke of York by William Penn
North Carolina
6. Oglethorpe did not allow slavery there
New Jersey

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Here’s the correct matching of each colony with its description:

  1. land grant to eight noblemen, became a colony of small individual farms - North Carolina
  2. land grant to eight noblemen, became a colony of large slave-owning estates - South Carolina
  3. colony named after Sir George Carteret's English home - New Jersey
  4. Penn's woods - Pennsylvania
  5. colony purchased from the Duke of York by William Penn - Delaware
  6. Oglethorpe did not allow slavery there - Georgia

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