New England Colonies
Why did the settlers leave Massachusetts Bay Colony to settle in Connecticut?
Overcrowding
What religion was William Penn?
Quaker
Colony controlled by the king
Royal colony
Savannah was its first settlement
Georgia
"Friend" who accepted a colony from the king as a repayment of debt to his father
William Penn
DAILY DOUBLE
Why did the English settlers come to America?
This Dutch colony was later named New York
New Netherland
This type of company provided a means for raising money as a way to start a colony
Joint-Stock Company
Name two cash crops important to the Carolinas
tobacco
rice
indigo
He wanted to build a colony where church and state were separate
Roger Williams
Was heavily populated during the "Great Migration"
Massachusetts
This brother to the King of England received the Dutch colony of New Netherland
James, Duke of York
Joint-Stock companies were used to start what type of colony?
Charter Colony
Both Roman Catholics and Protestants settled in ___________________.
Maryland
He wanted to help debtors
James Oglethorpe
In what year did the Pilgrims reach America?
1620
Delaware was originally founded by the __________
Swedes
DAILY DOUBLE
What characteristics made the middle colonies different from the other colonies?
Which colony wrote the Act of Toleration for religious freedom?
Maryland
He wanted his colony to be "a city set upon a hill"
John Winthrop
What document is regarded as the first written constitution written in America?
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
The middle colonies were originally settled by the ___________ and the Swedes
Dutch
Most New England colonies were originally __________ colonies. (royal, proprietor, or charter)
Charter
This Lord Baltimore established a colony for Roman Catholics
Cecilius Calvert
Name for the people who received larger grants of land in the Dutch Colony (recruiting 50 people)
Patroons