This person wrote a constitution for the Carolina colony.
Who is John Locke?
100
The reason why colonists founded Massachusetts?
What is to pursue religious freedom?
100
This colony was originally founded as a debtors colony.
What is Georgia?
100
The colonists referred to this person as "our perpetual dictator."
Who is James Oglethorpe?
100
This law was passed in Boston to protect the Catholics from any attempt to make Maryland a Protestant colony.
What is the Act of Toleration?
200
The Calvert family and the Penn family argued over the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania. The boundary of the two colonies was named after these two British astronomers.
Who are Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon? (The Mason-Dixon Line)
200
This colony was founded by Dutch settlers in order to expand trade.
What is New York?
200
A wealthy and powerful class of landowners were created in Maryland due to this guy giving large estates to his relatives and other English aristocrats.
Who is Lord Baltimore?
200
This person developed the very important crop of indigo.
Who is Eliza Lucas?
200
People who refuse to use force or to fight in wars.
What are pacifists?
300
This Wampanoag leader signed a treaty with the Pilgrims in March 1621.
Who is Massasoit?
300
This colony was founded by John Smith in order to expand trade.
What is Virginia?
300
The colony that had the smallest population.
What is Pennsylvania?
300
This person saw Pennsylvania as a "holy experiment," a chance to put the Quaker ideals of toleration and equality into practice.
Who is William Penn?
300
These people ruled like kings. They had their own courts and laws. Settlers had to pay them a share of their crops.
Who are the patroons?
400
These two Native Americans befriended the Pilgrims and showed them how to grow corn, beans and pumpkins.
Who are Squanto and Samoset?
400
This colony was first settled in 1620 in order to profit from trade and fishing.
What is New Hampshire?
400
List the five southern colonies.
What are Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia?
400
These people believed that every individual had an "inner light" that could guide him or her to salvation.
Who are the Quakers?
400
The Dutch West India Company bought Manhattan Island with this.
What is small quantities of beads and other goods?
500
The Englishman who married Pocahontas.
Who was John Rolfe?
500
The reason that Oglethorpe chose to lead the first group of "sober, industrial, and moral persons" to Georgia in 1733. He banned slavery, Catholics and rum.
What is to keep the people of Georgia Protestant?
500
The number years of that the colonies were founded over.
What was a span of 125 years?
500
The wealthy young planter that led Bacon's rebellion.
Who was Nathaniel Bacon?
500
During the 1630's, more than 15,000 Puritans journeyed to Massachusetts to escape religious persecution and economic hardtimes in England. This became known as...