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The Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
New England Colonies
100
This person was a soldier and adventurer who is known for the phrase "He that will not work shall not eat". Brought order to Jamestown
John Smith
100
This is where an investor received pieces of ownershpi of the company called shares of stock
Joint-Stock Company
100
This man was the proprietor who created a colony meant to be a place where Quakers could practice their beliefs, free of persecution
William Penn
100
Maryland's economy was based on what?
tobacco
100
What quaker belief angered Puritans leaders?
Women were spiritually equal to men
200
Men and women who sold their labor to a person that would finance their passage to the colonies
indentured servant
200
The colonists of Jamestown and the Powhatan were growing in tension until the chief's daughter, Pocahontas married who?
John Rolfe
200
The Dutch settlers brought this to their colonies. New Netherlands soon became known to be...
the most tolerant and diverse colony in North America
200
Why were Catholics eventually not able to practice their own religion?
Puritans tried to seize power. They dismissed Maryland's governor and replaced it with an anti-catholic law.
200
What was a group of people who belong to the same church?
Congregation
300
Which religious group established a form of self-government called the Mayflower Compact?
The Pilgrims
300
This person was Georgia's colonial leader who set strict rules that upset colonists. The king made Georgia a royal colony in 1752 in response.
James Oglethorpe
300
New Netherlands was renamed ___________ after the man who becamse the proprietor of this colony
New York
300
How did proprietors (men rewarded land for a new colony named Carolina) hope to attract settlers to the Carolinas?
religious toleration, large land grants, political representation
300
List one Puritan value
a) hard work - way of honoring God b) Education - laws required all children learn to read because Puritans wanted everyone to be able to read the Bible c) Representative Government - brought traditions of town meetings & local self-government to America
400
This forbade the religious persecution of colonists in colonial Maryland
Act of Tolerance
400
New Netherland became the __________ of New York, because the Duke of York became the owner of the colony.
proprietary colony
400
List something that drew settlers to the Middle Colonies
a) rich soil b) mild winters good for farming c) religious tolerance
400
James Oglethorpe began his colony of Georgia as a place for who?
debtors and the poor to make a new living
400
List one Puritan dissenter
a) Roger Williams - was banished or forced to leave the colony because he insisted that the colonists had no right to take NA land, one shouldn't be forced to attend church, church and state should be separate b) Anne Hutchinson - Believed clergy was not among the "elect". Fled to Rhode Island.
500
William Penn wanted to create a colony based on the ideals of what people?
The Quakers
500
This system was an set up by the Dutch West India Company. They said that if a person were to bring 50 settlers to New Netherland would receive a large land grant. They'd also receive hunting, fishing and fur trading privileges.
The Patroon system
500
List something that the Middle Colonies, as well as other colonies were beginning to value
a) religious liberty / freedom b) representative government
500
Who did Oglethore ban and why?
Catholics, in case they might sympathize with Spanish Catholics in Florida
500
What is a martyr?
people who choose to die for a religious principle
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