Roanoke & Jamestown
Jamestown was the first permanent colony of this country.
What is England?
The Pilgrims crossed the Atlantic on this ship.
What is the Mayflower?
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and this colony made up the Middle Colonies.
What is Delaware?
Large farms where cash crops were grown were called this.
What are plantations?
"I taught the Pilgrims to grow corn, beans, and pumpkins."
Who is Squanto?
When John White returned to Roanoke, he found this word carved on a tree.
What is Croatoan?
The Pilgrims signed this document aboard their ship to set up an orderly government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The Dutch called their main settlement on Manhattan Island by this name.
What is New Amsterdam?
For years, this was the main cash crop in Maryland and Virginia.
What is tobacco?
"I forced the Jamestown settlers to work and got food from the Powhatan."
Who is John Smith?
This granddaughter of John White was the first English child born in North America.
Who is Virginia Dare?
Founded by Roger Williams, this was the first place in America where people of all faiths could worship freely.
What is Rhode Island?
This Quaker founded Pennsylvania as a "holy experiment."
Who is William Penn?
George Calvert wanted Maryland to be a safe place for people of this religion.
Who are Catholics?
I am a Pamunkey who helped build peace with Jamestown and married John Rolfe."
Who is Pocahontas?
Created in 1619, this was the first legislature in North America elected by the colonists.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This Puritan was chosen governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and led about 900 settlers there in 1630.
Who is John Winthrop?
This Dutch governor surrendered New Amsterdam to the English in 1664 without a fight.
Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
In 1733 this man founded Georgia as a fresh start for debtors and poor people.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
"I held religious meetings in my home and was banished from Massachusetts Bay in 1637."
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
In 1624 King James took away the Virginia Company's charter, making Virginia this kind of colony, directly under the control of England's government.
What is a royal colony?
Adopted in 1639, this Connecticut plan of government was the first written constitution in America
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
In 1701 William Penn gave Pennsylvania colonists the right to elect representatives to the legislature in this document.
What is the Charter of Privileges?
In the 1740s this young English woman developed indigo into an important crop in Carolina.
Who is Eliza Lucas?
"In 1676 I led a rebellion against Virginia's governor and burned Jamestown."
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?