To Be (True) or Not To Be (True)
Who, What, and How?
You're a Pilgrim, Charlie Brown
People Look East (and North, South, and Middle)
Random Colonial History
100

The Pilgrims first dropped anchor in Cape Cod Bay.

What is false?

100

The Jamestown settlers made a profit for their investors by raising this crop.

What is tobacco?

100

These are people who refuse to fight in wars.

What are Pacifists? 

100

What do you call someone who is the sole owner and ruler of a colony?

What is a proprietor?

100

These two Native Americans helped the Pilgrims in Plymouth survive.

Who are Squanto and Samoset?

200
The word "Pennsylvania" means "Penn's experiment".

What is false?

200

This was the name of Jamestown's legislative assembly.

What is the House of Burgesses?
200

This is what groups of merchants obtained from the British King in order to start settlements in America.

What is a charter?

200

William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, was part of this religious group that believed in one's inner light.

Who are the Quakers? 

I will accept Quackers for half credit. :)

200

This city was originally called New Amsterdam.

What is New York City?

300

A constitution is a list of a government's fundamental laws. 

What is true?

300

This was the founder of Hartford, Connecticut.

Who is Thomas Hooker?

300

This is what Protestants who left the Anglican Church and established their own churches were called.

Who are the Separatists?

300

This was the last of the 13 colonies to be settled.

What is Georgia?

300

In 1676 Nathaniel Bacon led a series of attacks against villages inhabited by these people.

Who are the Native Americans?

400

The settlers of Roanoke vanished around 1590, never to be seen again.

What is true?

400

This was Virginia's first governor. 

Who is William Berkeley?

400

ANSWER: DAILY DOUBLE

Why do you think some people in England objected to the Quakers and persecuted them?

Teacher decides. :)

400

The Massachusetts Bay Company was granted a charter to establish a colony north of this city: 

Boston, Plymouth, Jamestown, or Roanoke? 


What is Plymouth?

400

This colony was founded as a place for Catholics to practice their religion freely.

What is Maryland?

500

By 1750, Dutch colonies stretched for hundreds of miles along the Atlantic coast. 

What is false? 

500

One of New Jersey's proprietors.

Who is Lord John Berkeley? 

500

This is what the name "Pocahontas" means. 

What is "Playful One"?

500

This is the colony where religious tolerance was first practiced.

What is Rhode Island?

500

This Carolina crop was developed by Eliza Lucas in the 1740s.

What is indigo?

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