In 1607
The Company that chartered British Colonies in the Americas.
Who is the Virginia Company?
The Mayflower & Plymouth Rock
Who were the Pilgrims?
This Native Tribe lends its name to war between them and the Colonists (Foxwoods anyone???).
Who are the Pequot?
The Virginia Colony was named after this Monarch.
Who was Queen Elizabeth?
This Frenchman saw this massive lake and thought "You know what, I'm gonna name it after...ME!!"
Who is Champlain?
The Nationality of explorers Cabot, Verrazzano, and Columbus who all sailed for other European powers.
What is Italian?
In one of America's largest cities, a 37 foot statue of the colony's founder stands atop its City Hall. Completed in 1894, over 175 years after his death, the statue's hat was the city's highest point until the 1980's.
Who is William Penn (Philadelphia, PA)?
The "Savages" who Captain Smith fought before the Americas.
Who were the Ottomans?
This colony was established on land given to its founder from debt owed to his father.
What is Pennsylvania?
The Brother of Chief Powhatan who's death marked the end of the Powhatan Wars
Who is Chief Opechancanough (Chief O)?
The Wampanoag Indian credited with helping the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony.
Who is Squanto?
This Explorer who sailed for the French was looking for the Northwest Passage, but he did get a cool suspension bridge named in his honor.
Known for their sermons, a speech modeled after Jesus's "Sermon on the Mount", describes the establishment of this city.
What is Boston?
Although he was arrested and gagged in the end of the movie, this settler's fate came to a much more gruesome end following a failed trading exposition with the Powhatan people.
Who is Governor Ratcliffe?
Although it was founded by Catholics, this colony was a variety of different religious groups but it wasn't long before the Puritans came a long and messed it all up...
What is Maryland?
The "Praying Indian" who converted to Christianity only to be found dead in a pond which started King Philip's War.
Who is John Sassamon?
The King's messy love life led to a divide between his country and the Catholic Church.
Who is Henry VIII?
Friend of Queen Elizabeth who help found the Roanoke Colony of 1585 only to be beheaded during the reign of James I.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
This Cash Crop was introduced to the British Colonies from Florida.
What is Cotton?
Unlike her movie character, Pocahontas's journey does not end with her love of John Smith but rather her kidnapping and her marriage to John Rolfe who engaged in this profession before spending the remainder of short life in London.
What was a Tobacco Trader?
Although the Dutch held strong ground on Mid Atlantic colonies, this colony was initially established by the Sweeds.
What is Delaware?
The Massacre of 1637 in this Coastal Connecticut city nearly wiped out all Pequot natives.
What is Mystic?
The French King who's cultural ambitious drove his country to American colonization.
Who is Francis I?
The Puritan woman banished from the Mass Bay Colony. She tried to have civil relationships with Native Americans, until she and her family were brutally massacred by them in what is now part of the Bronx in NYC.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
What is Maryland?
Prior to the arrival of the English, the Powhatan people had just finished a war against these Mid Atlantic Native Americans...
Who are the Massawomeck?
Roger Williams established this city that was a "Sense of God’s Mercy in my Distress"....
What is Providence?
The Rhode Island Town where Nine Men's Misery occurred in which Colonists met Gruesome Deaths during King Philip's War.
What is Cumberland?
After being removed from the Mass Bay Colony, this man established the Connecticut Colony with its Fundamental Orders being the first American Constiution.
Who is Thomas Hooker?
This Monarch inherited the throne from his father at the age of 9. His death at 16 led to a succession crisis and religious turmoil in England.
Who is Edward VI?
The real name of King Philip
What is Metacomet?