Georgia
This founder of the colony of Georgia named the settlement after himself at its creation in 1732.
Who is George II or George the Second?
This king gave the eight Lord proprietors of South Carolina the land grant that would become the colony as a gift for their support of his claim to the throne.
Who is King Charles II or King Charles the Second?
What is the Virginia Company of London?
This English explorer sailed into New York Harbor and claimed it for the Dutch in 1609.
Who is Henry Hudson?
Like many of the Middle Colonies, Maryland's colonists farmed, and fished to sustain themselves and make money, as well as mining this metal, which was sent back to England to be processed.
What is iron?
Initially being claimed by John Cabot in 1497 for England, Pennsylvania was also claimed by these three other nations.
What are France, Sweden, and the Netherlands?
The Pilgrims sailed to Plymouth Bay in 1620, and were followed by this group in 1630, led by John Winthrop who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who were the Puritans?
Connecticut was founded as a haven for those fleeing religious persecution in this colony.
What is Massachusetts?
Though established by Roger Williams, a preacher from Massachusetts, explorers from these nations saw it first.
Who are the Italians and the Dutch?
This other nation laid claim to the land of the Georgia colony alongside England. James Ogelthorpe proposed the idea of making the colony a haven for this type of people.
What is Spain? Who are the "industrious yet unfortunate poor"? Or the poor?
Upon arriving to South Carolina from England, the settlers found about this many Native groups already living in the area.
What is thirty?
Although the first settlement of Virginia was reported to be missing after its disappearance in 1584, it was officially made a colony in this year.
What is 1607?
While the north of New York was mountainous and forested, the are around the Hudson river and the coast can be described as this.
What is swampy?
The Chesapeake Bay being central to Maryland provided much low, rich farm land that was covered in this type of soil from the Bay.
What is silt?
Due to Pennsylvania's high level of religious freedom, Quakers flocked there, in addition to these other seven religious groups.
Who are Lutherans, Mennonites, Amish, Moravians, Presbyterians, Huguenots, and Jews?
What is religious freedom?
Thomas Hooker founded Connecticut because he was disturbed by the lack of this in Massachusetts.
What is democracy?
Roger Williams and his family came to Rhode Island fleeing religious persecution in Massachusetts for apparently preaching this.
What is that all men should be able to worship their god in any way the want?
These crops were grown in the fertile coastal swamps of Georgia.
These crops were grown on the red-clay plains further inland.
What are rice and Indigo?
What are tobacco and cotton?
Natives taught the Europeans to make tea with this root in order to treat the mosquito-born illnesses common to the region such as Malaria.
What is sassafras?
Male settlers of Virginia were automatically given this many acres of land, and given an additional sum of this many acres if they purchased stock in the Virginia Company.
What are 50 acres and 100 acres?
The governor of New York was appointed by this person.
Who was the King of England?
While many colonies' legislative bodies owed loyalty to the English crown, the Maryland representatives owed loyalty only to this person.
Who is Lord Calvert?
Despite looking down on slavery, many people including the colony's namesake William Penn, owned slaves, with slaves making up this percentage of the total population.
What is twenty percent?
Natives in the area of Massachusetts helped settlers survive their first seasons in the new colony by teaching them to fish and farm. The first bountiful harvest that the colonist brought in was celebrated at this.
What is the first Thanksgiving?
Some natives lived near the Quinnequktuqut river, in Connecticut, which means this.
What is "beside the long tidal river"?
This kind of families settled in Rhode Island and owned large southern style plantations that relied on slave labor.
Slavery was originally outlawed in Georgia before being made legal in order to do this for Georgian plantations.
What is make them more price competitive with other farms using slave labor?
This famous enlightenment thinker and political philosopher wrote the South Carolina Charter. Stating that:
“seven or more persons agreeing to any religion shall constitute a church" and that “no person shall use any abusive language against the religion of any church. No person shall disturb... or persecute another for his... religion or way of worship."
Who is John Locke?
The Atlantic coast of Virginia had these, which allowed for the establishment of ports to easily send raw materials back to England.
What are large, quiet bays?
What are corn, wheat and flax?
What is two Native American arrows and half of any gold or silver found by the colonists?
The name of Pennsylvania's capitol, Philadelphia, means this.
What is "the city of brotherly love"?
While the land was fertile, and the summers were mild, the winters were ___ ___, which result in many of the settlers not surviving the first winter.
What is bitterly cold?
Colonist in Connecticut often made a living from the sea by doing these three things.
What is fishing, whaling, and trading?
What is red island?
Oglethorpe envisioned Georgia as a place where this kind of people could live, leading to a history of religious freedom.
What are "foreigners persecuted for conscience's sake?"
Upon arriving in South Carolina, freemen were promised this many acres for themselves and any indentured servants they brought, as well as this many for their wife and every child they brought.
What is 150 and 100 acres.
This was the main cash crop that was grown in Virginia both because it grew the best, and because it brought the best price.
What is tobacco?
This Dutch company had the charter to the colony of New York before it was surrendered to the British in 1664.
What is the Dutch East India Company?
Lord Calvert sought for Maryland to be a ______ for those people seeking political or religious freedom.
What is a "Land of Sanctuary?"
The farmers in Pennsylvania raised cattle, in addition to growing these three crops.
What are vegetables, corn and wheat?
Puritans came to the colony in order to have this.
The most common crops in Connecticut were these five.
What are corn, pumpkins, beans, squash, and apples?
What are rum, sugar, wool and beef?
These people were forced into slavery in Georgia before the importation of African slaves began in 1751.
Debtors from these countries made up the population of Georgia.
Who were the Native Americans?
What are France, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria?
These eight Lord Proprietors formed the Colony of South Carolina in 1690.
Who are Earl of Clarendon, Duke of Albemarle, William Lord Craven John, Baron Berkeley of Stratton, Sir George Carteret, Sir John Colleton, Sir William Berkeley, and Anthony Ashley Cooper?
This was both the official church of England and Virginia, with citizens being required to attend church twice each Sunday by law.
What is the Church of England?
The first settlers in the area committed themselves to patroonships, where this many settlers would agree to farm an area of land and share the profits with the patron.
What is 50 settlers?
Most settlers of the colony of Maryland were Catholic, but these other protestant groups were also represented in the population.
Free men in Pennsylvania elected this many men to represent them in the Pennsylvania General Assembly every year.
What is 200?
Colonists believed they had set up a kingdom for their God, and that only these kinds of people were allowed to live there.
What are true believers?
While Connecticut colonists were puritans, like their Massachusetts counterparts, they managed to separate their religious codes from these.
What are colonial laws?
Rhode Island, as a main shipping hub, was home to pirates, as well as these, a kind of contracted pirate that pillaged for a particular government.
What are privateers?
These are the 5 parts of the colonial Georgian government.
What are the Common House of Assembly, the Upper House of General Assembly, Trustees, the Governor, and the King of England?
Real governing power over South Carlina was retained by England, making it this, not a colony.
What is a province?
The colonial government of Virginia consisted of these two legislative bodies, containing this many members each, all under the governor who was appointed in England.
What are the House of Burgess with 22 members, and the Governor's Council with 6?
New York was situated between New England, which was predominantly practiced this kind of Christianity, and Maryland which practiced this other kind of Christianity.
What is protestant and Catholic?
Each male settler of Virginia was granted ___ acres of land, his wife and any children over 16 afforded him the same number of acres, while any children under 16 years old granted them ___ acres of land, the same amount earned by indentured servants once they were freed.
What is 100 acres and 50 acres?
In addition to the General Assembly, Pennsylvania had a Provincial Council, made up of this many members, also elected annually.
What is seventy two?
Under Puritan rule, free white men in the colonies could vote for their ministers, who made laws, but as Puritan power relaxed, these were elected at yearly town meetings.
What are colonial representatives?
The Connecticut colonists had the world's first written constitution called this.
What are the Fundamental Orders?
These are the four parts of the Rhode Island colonial government.
What are governor, deputy governor, ten assistants to the governor, and a General Assembly?