New England Colonies
This is the main reason the New England colonies started.
What is religious freedom?
Under the leadership of the Duke of York, England gained control of Dutch lands in the middle colonies and renamed the colony this.
What is New York?
Virginia settlers defied an order by the governor to stop moving further west. True or False.
What is true?
In his view, the government should not force people to worship in a certain way.
He also believed it was wrong for settlers to take land away from the Native Americans.
Who is Roger Williams?
This Spanish Armada was defeated by this country.
What is England?
Those who wanted to reform the Anglican Church.
Who are Puritans?
The southernmost part of NY between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers became this middle colony. The inhabitants of this area were diverse in ethnicity and religion, and there was no major port or city, so the colony did not make money.
What is New Jersey?
This became a proprietary colony, established as a safe place for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
This became the “blue gold” of Carolina.
What is Indigo?
This colony was lost and no one knows why.
What is the Lost Colony of Roanoke?
This was the beginning of a representative government in America.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
He founded Pennsylvania as a place to practice religious tolerance and equality.
Who is William Penn?
Northern or Southern Carolina became more prosperous due to fertile farmland and a harbor city.
What is Southern Carolina?
He founded Rhode Island and Providence Plantations where religious toleration existed and people could worship as they pleased.
Who is Roger Williams?
This becomes the first successful colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
A group of Puritans received a royal charter and set up Massachusetts Bay Colony (north of Plymouth) and settled in present-day Boston with him as their governor
Who is John Winthrop?
For this reason, the King of England gave William Penn a plot of land to start a colony.
The boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania was disputed, so two British astronomers were hired to resolve the issue and establish a boundary called this.
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
In 1733, he founded the Georgia colony.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
This was an assembly of elected representatives from Virginia that met from 1643 to 1776. This democratically elected legislative body was the first of its kind in English North America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This is the first written constitution in America.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
In 1703, three Lower Counties (the southernmost part of Pennsylvania) formed their own legislature and became the colony of ______. (Hint: This is President Joe Biden's home state.)
What is Delaware?
Name two of the four reasons why people populated the Southern Colonies.
What are
Some settlers came voluntarily
Others came because they were
1. Criminals or prisoners of war from England and Scotland working for 7 years to earn their release
2. Brought as slaves
3. Indentured servants who worked without pay for a certain period in exchange for their passage to America
This is the last British colony to be founded in the Americas.
What is Georgia?
Name one of the two reasons the Georgia colony was started.
What are
1. As a place where British debtors and poor people could make a fresh start
2. As a military barrier to protect the other colonies from Spanish Florida?