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people
industry/lifestyle
government/documents
miscellaneous
100
Originally founded as New Amsterdam. It was later given as a gift by King Charles II to the Duke of York.
What is New York City?
100
She developed indigo in South Carolina in the 1740s.
Who is Eliza Lucas?
100
Since the New England colonies did not have good farmland, they relied on this source of food.
What is fish?
100
Signed by the Pilgrims before coming ashore, it was one of the first governing documents in the Americas.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
100
He was the Wampanoag chief known to settlers as King Phillip.
Who is Metacomet?
200
This colony was founded by Sir George Calvert as a safe place for his fellow Catholics.
What is Maryland?
200
She was forced out of Massachusetts for questioning religious authorities.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
200
Towns with natural ones became centers of shipping and trade.
What are harbors?
200
This was the first written constitution in America.
What was the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
200
This was the name of the movement of more than 15,000 Puritans to Massachusetts from England.
What was the Great Migration?
300
This colony's first settlers disapproved of the bans against slavery and rum.
What is Georgia?
300
He was the first governor of Massachusetts.
Who is John Winthrop?
300
This industry developed in the New England colonies because of their good supply of lumber.
What is shipbuilding?
300
In this type of colony, the owner of a colony owned all the land and controlled the government.
What was a proprietary colony?
300
In exchange for bringing over at least 50 settlers to New Netherland, these people were granted 50 acres of land to rule over like a king.
Who were patroons?
400
This colony's founder saw it as a "holy experiment" in toleration and equality.
What is Pennsylvania?
400
Governor Berkeley called him "the greatest rebel that ever was in Virginia."
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
400
This crop saved Jamestown financially.
What is tobacco?
400
This was the first elected representative assembly in North America.
What was the House of Burgesses?
400
A company in which investors bought stock in return for a share of the company's future profits.
What was a joint-stock company?
500
This colony was named after an English island which was the birthplace of one of this colony's founders.
What is New Jersey?
500
He led a group of Massachusetts dissidents to found the town of Exeter in New Hampshire.
Who is John Wheelwright?
500
These laborers agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America.
What are indentured servants?
500
This grant from the king gave people the right to organize settlements in an area.
What was a charter?
500
Their religion forbade violence and promoted equality.
Who are Quakers?
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