8th Grade Vocab

Middle Colonies

100

• In New England, most schools accepted who?

Only Boys

200

What was the first college in the colonies that opened in 1638? And with how many students?

Harvard College and opened with 10 students

300

• Who invented the lighting rod? And how did he do it?

Benjamin Franklin and flew a kite in a lighting storm

400

• Who helped set off the Great Awakening?

Jonathan Edwards

500

• Who founded the Carolinas in 1663?

Eight English Nobles

Southern Colonies

100

• Who founded the colony of Georgia and in what year?

James Oglethrope in 1732

200

• What was the first Southern colony?

Virginia

300

Where did the Dutch set up New Netherland at and what did they developed?

Hudson River and developed fur trade and built settlements

400

• What did New Amsterdam quickly become the center of?

             Commerce and trading valuable beaver skins

500

• Who was the governor of New Netherland?

Peter Stuyvesant