Early Explorers
English Settlement
Colonial Regions
French & Indian War
IDs
100
This explorer thought he found Asia when he landed in the Bahamas.
What is Columbus
100
Early English colony that disappeared without a trace...
What is Roanoke
100
This region was known as America's "breadbasket."
What is The Middle Colonies
100
The French and Indian war was a conflict between the French and what nation...
What is England
100
This kind of colony was supported by multiple investors...
What is Joint-Stock Colony
200
Nation which Columbus sailed for...
What is Spain
200
First permanent English settlement in America...
What is Jamestown
200
This colony was originally settled by the Dutch...
What is New York (or New Amsterdam)
200
The French and English disputed rights to which territory?
What is The Ohio River Valley
200
This was the colony were the Salem Witch Trials held.
What is Massachusetts Bay Colony
300
Italian navigator sponsored by Spain, who realized he was exploring a new continent.
What is Amerigo Vespucci
300
Settled by a group of Separatists in 1620...
What is Plymouth
300
If a colony was owned by one person who appointed the leadership and sold land, it was called a __________ colony...
What is Proprietary
300
Ben Franklin created a famous cartoon at the Albany Congress. It featured a severed body of a snake. What was the caption of the cartoon?
What is JOIN, or DIE.
300
50 acres per person were granted under this system which encouraged colonial population growth.
What is The Headright System
400
First explorer whose ship circumnavigated the globe...
What is Magellan
400
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by this group...
What is Puritans
400
This colony was founded by James Oglethorpe as a haven for debtors, and forbade slavery.
What is Georgia
400
This treaty that ended the French and Indian War in 1763...
What is The Treaty of Paris, 1763
400
This colonist was banished when she held religious meetings in her home...
Anne Hutchinson
500
What were the two reasons for English settlement in America?
What is Economic, and Religious
500
Known for delivering the "City Upon a Hill" sermon to his followers...
John Winthrop
500
Southern colony known for producing tobacco
What is Virginia and North Carolina
500
During the F&I War, colonists hoped to gain support from this major Native American group...
What is The Iroquois Confederacy.
500
This was a period of American history where the Crown did not strictly enforce laws in the colonies to encourage obedience
What is Salutary Neglect
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