Roger Williams
This banished Puritan minister founded Providence Plantations.
Who is Roger Williams?
John Mason named this colony after his home in Hampshire, England.
What is New Hampshire?
This Puritan minister led his group along Native American trails to found Hartford.
Who is Thomas Hooker?
The Dutch realized this American product was as valuable as American gold.
What are furs?
Sent in 1646 to bring order, this last director-general was called “Old Silvernails” because of his decorated wooden leg.
Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
New Amsterdam was renamed New York to honor this man.
Who is James, the Duke of York?
Roger Williams preached that these two things should be kept separate.
What are church and state?
Providence welcomed Catholics, Quakers, Jews, and atheists by offering this.
What is complete religious freedom?
In New Haven, religious leaders were also the political leaders, a type of government called this.
What is a theocracy?
He bought Manhattan Island for beads and trinkets worth about $24.
Who is Peter Minuit?
This famous New York street is named for the wall built to protect New Amsterdam.
What is Wall Street?
Sir George Carteret named this colony after his home island in the English Channel.
What is New Jersey?
Roger Williams was banished after opposing a 1635 Massachusetts law that made this mandatory.
What is church attendance?
Exiled from Massachusetts as a heretic, this woman helped found Portsmouth.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
Created in 1639, this document made Connecticut the first colony with a written plan of government.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
This Dutch explorer traded for furs along the Hudson River in 1614.
Who is Adriaen Block?
In August 1664, four of these English ships appeared in New Amsterdam harbor.
What are warships?
The Duke of York gave the land that became New Jersey to Sir George Carteret and this man.
Who is Sir John Berkeley?
Williams said Massachusetts Bay had no legal title to its land because it had not paid these people.
Who are the Native Americans?
Gorges and Mason’s land got this name because it was on the mainland of a coast with islands.
What is Maine (“the main”)?
Legend says Connecticut hid its charter in this tree so Governor Andros couldn’t take it.
What is the Charter Oak?
The Sheep, the Horse, and this ship landed on Manhattan Island in 1626.
What is the Cow?
The Dutch refused to fight alongside Stuyvesant because they were outgunned and their fort didn’t have enough of this.
What is food?
New Jersey settlers couldn’t buy land, so they paid this yearly fee to use it.
What is a quit rent?
Along with separation of church and state, the Providence compact recognized this kind of rule.
What is majority rule?
Dutch explorer Adriaen Block called the island Roodt Eyland, which means this.
What is Red Island?
Connecticut comes from a Mohican word with this meaning.
What is “at a long tidal river”?
Landowners who paid for 50 or more settlers to come to New Netherlands were called this.
Who are the patroons?
Given the choice after the English takeover, most Dutch colonists, even Stuyvesant, chose to do this.
What is stay in America?
King Charles II created new colonies to do this for people who helped him regain the throne.
What is repay them?
By the time of Roger Williams’s death in 1683, Rhode Island was well known as this.
What is a refuge?
Mason and Gorges formed this company, whose settlers came to make money, not to escape persecution.
What is the Laconia Company?
Formed in 1643, this alliance of four colonies was the earliest example of unity among the English colonies.
What is the New England Confederation?
It was hard to find Dutch colonists because the Netherlands had the world’s highest standard of living and was tolerant of this.
What is religion (different religions)?
In 1655, Stuyvesant enlarged New Netherlands by taking over this colony on the Delaware Bay.
What is New Sweden?
This German-born soldier took control of New York and was later hanged for treason.
Who is Jacob Leisler?