What is the 1st written constitution in America called?
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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What problem did the Pilgrims run into on their trip to the Americas that caused them to have to go back to England and go on one boat?
The Speedwell was leaking badly and could not continue
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Who brought indigo to Carolina?
Eliza Lucas
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What are the "two colorful golds" of the South?
Blue Gold: Indigo, Brown Gold: Tobacco
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Where did the Pilgrims settle?
Plymouth, Massachusetts
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What is a proprietary colony?
a colony in which the owner, or proprietor, owns all the land and controls the government
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How did William Penn get the land to establish Pennsylvania?
His father lent to the king a large amount of money and, having inherited the debt, in return asked for land to create a colony.
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Who was America's first town planner?
William Penn
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What colony's strict rules on small landholdings caused the settlers to complain?
Georgia
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What 2 colonies broke off from bigger colonies to form their own and what colonies did they break off from? DAILY DOUBLE!!!
New Jersey broke off from New York and Delaware broke off from Pennsylvania
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What colony was the 1st to be religiously tolerant?
Rhode Island
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What happened to Carolina soon after its establishment?
The people of southern and northern Carolina separated into two colonies.
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Who governed New Netherlands before it was taken over by the British and renamed New York?
Peter Stuyvesant
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What colony was rich in iron?
Maryland
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What 2 people could Maryland have been named after?
the English queen, Henrietta Maria or the Virgin Mary
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What colony passed the Act of Toleration in 1649?
Maryland
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What was the 1st town established in Connecticut?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Hartford
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What colony did John Wheelwright govern?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
New Hampshire
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What colony celebrated the First Thanksgiving and with what Native American tribe?
Plymouth, Massachusetts: Wampanoag
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What were the two purposes of Georgia?
A place for debtors and poor people in England to come to get a fresh start and it served as a military barrier between Spanish and British lands
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What 3 things were banned in Georgia? DAILY DOUBLE!!!
slavery, Catholics, and rum
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Why was Maryland established?
as a safe place for his fellow Catholics to escape religious prosecution in England
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Which two British astronomers drew the border line between Pennsylvania and Maryland?
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon
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What was a "meeting (church)" for a Quaker like?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
The men and women sat next to each other on the floor. Anyone could get up to speak. There was no superior authority leading the meeting. Everyone was called by their first name