French Exploration and Colonies
English Exploration
English Colonies
Pocahontas
Potpourri
100
King Louis of France was trying to find a short cut here.
What is Asia?
100
English colonists were searching for this shiny mineral when they came to America.
What is Gold?
100
This colony found that tobacco grew very well and made many people rich.
What is the Virginia colony?
100
The company that made the animated Pocahontas movie.
What is Disney?
100
The number of English colonies along the Atlantic Ocean by the year 1753.
What is 13?
200
Allowed people to walk on deep amounts of snow without falling in the snow.
What are snowshoes?
200
The first successful colony established by the English.
What is Jamestown?
200
He started the colony of Pennsylvania.
Who is William Penn?
200
Pocahontas saved this man from being clubbed to death by her father's men.
Who is John Smith?
200
He helped to start the French and Indian War by leading a group of Virginia Militia to a French fort and firing on the French diplomats.
Who is George Washington?
300
He explored the Saint Lawrence River trying to find a short cut through America.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
300
Some people came to America because they wanted to have the ability to worship their own God.
What is Freedom of Religion?
300
This was the name of the group of religious people who did not want to pray in the Church of England and came to Massachusetts.
What are Puritans?
300
The approximate (about) age Pocahontas was when she saved an English man from being killed by the chief's men.
What is 10 to 12 years old?
300
People in England who were in debt and could not pay those debts went here.
What is Debtors Prison (Jail)?
400
The name of the river that goes down America to the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
400
The colony established in this year was the first English colony but it failed.
What was the year 1585?
400
Roger Williams established this colony that promoted freedom of religion.
What is Rhode Island?
400
The age in which Pocahontas approximately (about) was when she died.
What is 22 years old?
400
The winner of the French and Indian War who got almost all of the land the country they beat had in America.
What is England?
500
The explorer who explored the Mississippi River for France.
Who is La Salle?
500
The year the Jamestown settlement was created.
What is the year 1607?
500
The colony of Georgia was established by this man.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
500
The Englishman who Pocahontas actually married.
Who is John Rolfe?
500
This colony was established to help people who were in debt.
What is Georgia?
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