The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although there are no options attached, we can say the following.
The governing principles that united New England, Middle, and Southern
Colonies were the necessity of a representative government, the need for establishing an order for the social system, and the idea of a limited government.
These were the principles that united the 13 American colonies in a time when discontent among them started to increase against the English crown due to the heavy taxation imposed by the government of Great Britain. American colonists had to pay non-sense taxation such as the Navigation Acts, the Tea Act, or the Stamp Act, among many others.
