Compare the characteristics of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. What did these and all other New England colonies have in common? They provided financial security.
They were self-governing.
They provided religious freedom.
They were settled by Puritans.

They were self-governing, as Massachusetts didn't have religious tolerance for others, and financial security didn't come until later into settling. Rhode Island wasn't settled by puritans and had no dominating ethnic group or religion.

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