Question

Identify one characteristic that all new England colonies shared

Answer 1

Answer: self-government, protestant (not Catholic)

Explanation: that is a characteristic that differs British colonial system from the others. Principle of self-government existed already in Britain itself. Spaniards, Portuguese and French launched colonial projects that were 1) Catholic (there were protestant French colonial projects but they usually did not have support of the crown) and 2) strictly centralized.