To Be (True) or Not To Be (True)
The Pilgrims first dropped anchor in Cape Cod Bay.
What is false?
The Jamestown settlers made a profit for their investors by raising this crop.
What is tobacco?
These are people who refuse to fight in wars.
What are Pacifists?
What do you call someone who is the sole owner and ruler of a colony?
What is a proprietor?
These two Native Americans helped the Pilgrims in Plymouth survive.
Who are Squanto and Samoset?
What is false?
This was the name of Jamestown's legislative assembly.
This is what groups of merchants obtained from the British King in order to start settlements in America.
What is a charter?
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. :)
This city was originally called New Amsterdam.
What is New York City?
A constitution is a list of a government's fundamental laws.
What is true?
This was the founder of Hartford, Connecticut.
Who is Thomas Hooker?
This is what Protestants who left the Anglican Church and established their own churches were called.
Who are the Separatists?
This was the last of the 13 colonies to be settled.
What is Georgia?
In 1676 Nathaniel Bacon led a series of attacks against villages inhabited by these people.
Who are the Native Americans?
The settlers of Roanoke vanished around 1590, never to be seen again.
What is true?
This was Virginia's first governor.
Who is William Berkeley?
ANSWER: DAILY DOUBLE
Why do you think some people in England objected to the Quakers and persecuted them?
Teacher decides. :)
The Massachusetts Bay Company was granted a charter to establish a colony north of this city:
Boston, Plymouth, Jamestown, or Roanoke?
What is Plymouth?
This colony was founded as a place for Catholics to practice their religion freely.
What is Maryland?
By 1750, Dutch colonies stretched for hundreds of miles along the Atlantic coast.
What is false?
One of New Jersey's proprietors.
Who is Lord John Berkeley?
This is what the name "Pocahontas" means.
What is "Playful One"?
This is the colony where religious tolerance was first practiced.
What is Rhode Island?
This Carolina crop was developed by Eliza Lucas in the 1740s.
What is indigo?