People
Colonies
Vocabulary
Native Americans
Miscellaneous
100
He founded the mission that eventually became San Diego.
Who is Junipero Serra?
100
The colony of Connecticut was set up by this man.
Who is Thomas Hooker?
100
A Spanish civilian town.
What is a pueblo?
100
The main reason that the Spanish established missions.
What is to spread Christianity to the Native Americans?
100
This "city upon a hill" was set up to protect debtors.
What is Georgia?
200
He was a Native American who helped the Pilgrims survive.
Who was Squanto?
200
Colony founded by Roger Williams.
What is Rhode Island?
200
frontier region extending through several colonies from Pennsylvania to Georgia.
What is the backcountry?
200
Number one reason so many Native Americans died.
What is disease?
200
The winter of 1609-1610 in Jamestown when the food supply was low and many people died.
What is the "Starving time"?
300
He was sent by London to lead Jamestown.
Who was John Smith?
300
This colony started as a Dutch settlement but was eventually taken over by England.
What is New York?
300
form of government in which voters elect people to make laws for them.
What is representative government?
300
The Native American name of King Philip.
What is Metacom?
300
Name for the border established between Maryland and Pennsylvania in the 1760s.
What is the Mason-Dixon line?
400
He was a frontier leader in colonial America.
Who was Nathaniel Bacon?
400
He was the leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Puritans.
Who was John Winthrop?
400
A large farm where crops such as sugar, rice and cotton are grown?
What is a plantation?
400
The year of the first Thanksgiving.
What is 1621?
400
military posts in Spanish colonies
What are presidios?
500
A Boston woman who was expelled from the Puritans of Massachusetts. She established a settlement on an island that is now part of Rhode Island.
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
500
The "Holy Experiment".
What is Pennsylvania?
500
Recognition that other people have the right to different opinions.
What is toleration?
500
In Pennsylvania, colonist could not take land from the Native Americans unless it was first,
What is paid for?
500
The reason Powhatan turned against the Jamestown settlers.
What is the settlers were rating Native American villages for food?
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