Founders
Pennsylvania
William Penn
Landed at Plymouth Rock, Founded Massachusetts
The Pilgrims
What phrase is used to help us remember the Middle Colonies?
New Pennies, New Dimes
What was the main cash crop in the Southern Colonies?
Cotton or Tobacco
What country sent the pilgrims and the puritans to america?
England; Great Britain
Georgia
James Oglethorpe
What phrase is used to help us remember the names of the New England Colonies?
Never Make Cynthia Run
What group bought New Jersey from James, the Duke of York. (Hint: They were a religious group)
The Quakers
What phrase is used to help us remember the Southern Colonies?
My Vehicle Needs Some Gas
What was the first lawmaking body in the colonies?
The House of Burgesses
New York
This group of people sought to purify the church in the new colonies.
The Puritans
What was New York known as before it was New York?
New Amsterdam
Settlers from which state founded North and South Carolina?
Virginia
What was Pennsylvania's government called that where a general assembly made laws, and it gave freedom of speech, worship, and trial by jury?
Deleware
William Penn
Governor of Massachusetts
John Winthrop
What country did James, the Duke of York, fight to get the colony of New York?
Holland
What system was developed in the south that allowed large numbers of cash crops to be grown and exported?
The Plantation System
Which colony had the "Fundamental Orders," where all land owners were able to vote for leaders?
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Roger Williams
Providence
What does Pennsylvania mean?
Penn's woods
Why was Georgia founded?
- As a buffer zone between the colonies and Spanish florida
- For indentured servants to pay off their debts.
What document was signed aboard the Mayflower guaranteeing equal rights among those aboard the mayflower?
The Mayflower Compact