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Who helped found Rhode Island?
Roger Williams
the first permanent English settlement in America.
What is Jamestown?
Which group founded the Massachusetts Bay?
Who are Puritans?
Livestock farmers probably lived in this colonial region.
What is Middle Colonies?
Name one of the Middle colonies
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware?
On May 14, about _________ miles up the James River in Virginia, the colonists founded Jamestown,
What is 40 miles?
What is the ship the Pilgrims sailed on?
What is the Mayflower?
people who have left the country of their birth to live in another country.
What are immigrants?
Who founded Pennsylvania?
William Penn?
Why was Georgia founded?
To help debtors and provide a fresh start?
Which groups came to America to avoid religious persecution.
What is the Pilgrims and Puritans?
Who led the Pilgrims to America?
William Bradford
Many farms grew ___________ that were sold for profit.
What is cash crops?
a group that left England in the early 1600s to escape persecution.
What is Pilgrims?
Why was Rhode Island important?
Religious Freedom?
Name one of the New England colonies.
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut?
List an important cash crop in Virginia.
tobacco?
Why were schools so important in New England?
So children would learn to read the bible?
Captain John Smith
a legal contract in which they agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good
What is the Mayflower Compact?