Founding Colonies
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
These four colonies made up the New England region.
What are Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire?
These were the colonies of the Middle Region?
What is Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware?
This colony was founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
This colony was the first attempt at colonization in the New World.
What is Roanoke?
This colony was founded by William Penn as a place for Quakers.
What is Pennsylvania?
The rocky soil and short growing season of this region made farming difficult.
What is New England?
Before the English took control, this colony was called New Amsterdam.
What is New York?
What was the main economic activity in the southern colonies?
What is Farming?
These were the three geographic regions of the 13 Colonies.
What are the New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, and Southern Colonies?
This colony was known for English Catholics.
What is Maryland?
This colony was founded by Roger Williams after being banished from Massachusetts.
What is Rhode Island?
The Middle Colonies were known for this type of religious policy.
What is religious tolerance?
What was the name of the original colony that spit to form 2 of the 13 colonies?
What is Carolina?
The act of forcing another human being to work without compensation.
What is slavery?
Which company funded the voyage to create Jamestown?
The Virginia Company
What was the document that was signed by the Pilgrims that gave them the power to create a government and laws?
The Mayflower Compact
Founder of Pennsylvania
Who is William Penn?
Tobacco, rice and indigo were important cash crops in these colonies.
What are the Southern Colonies?
When the Carolinas separated, one colony had 36,000 slaves and the other colony had 6,000 slaves. Name the colonies and which amount belongs to the correct colony.
North Carolina 6,000
South Carolina 36, 000
This colony was founded by James Oglethorpe as a buffer against Spanish Florida.
What is Georgia?
What was the biggest reason the New England Colonies were settled?
Religious Freedom
Thomas Hooker inspired the first written constitution. What is it?
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
Large farms that depended on enslaved labor were called these.
What are plantations?
What were the first and last colonies to be founded? 500 for the answers and an extra 100 for the correct years.
Virginia: 1607
Georgia: 1732