The Southern Colonies
New England Colonies
The Middle Colonies
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Flashback
100
The Colony founded by James Oglethorpe
Georgia
100
John Winthrope's occupation
Lawyer
100
The reason settlers in New Amsterdam refused to fight the British
Disliked governor's rule and high taxes
100
Guy Fawkes Night
100
First European's to travel to America
Vikings - Leif Ericsson
200
The protest where Jamestown was burnt to the ground.
Bacon's Rebellion
200
Meaning of primogeniture
Eldest son inherits
200
William Penn's religion
Quaker
200
English for trash can
Bin
200
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan civilization
Francisco Pizarro
300
The year that the Maryland state legislature passed the Act of Toleration
1649
300
Name of Massachusetts legislature
General Court
300
Literal meaning of Pennsylvania
Penn's Woodlands
300
Name the British Monarch
King Charles III
300
Oldest civilization in America
Olmec
400
The first town established by the settlers in Maryland.
St Mary's
400
Name the woman who questioned the authority of Puritan sermons in Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Anne Hutchinson
400
The reason Delaware was established
Settlers in the lower counties didn't want to send delegates to distant Philadelphia
400
What do the English call a sweater?
jumper
400
Name Columbus's 3 ships
Santa Maria
Nina
Pinta
500
Two rules that James Oglethorpe created upon founding his colony.
- No farm bigger than 500 acres
- No slavery
500
Describe the beliefs of the Puritans
- Believed God expected them to live according to the scriptures
- Did not want to separate from Church of England
- no organ music
- no finely decorated churches
- no special priest clothing
500
List the Swedish, Dutch and German cultural imports
German - wood burning stove
Swedish - log cabins
Dutch - red brick houses
500
Pronounce the following place name
Cholmondeley
500
The Aztec emperor killed by Hernan Cortes
Moctezuma