Religion and the Colonies
Influential Figures
Politics
Economics
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100

Any group on a religious journey, or this particular group. 

Who are the Pilgrims (pilgrims)?

100

This woman was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony over religious dissent. 

Who was Anne Hutchinson?

100

This colony, established in 1620, wrote the first American prototype for our constitution.

What was Massachusetts/ Massachusetts Bay Colony. 

100

This was the main crop for most agriculturally based colonial economies. 

What was tobacco?

100

This famous political institution was the first American model of representative government. 

What was the House of Burgesses in Colonial Virginia?

200

This group wanted to make a statement and totally remove themselves from the Church of England.

Who were the Separatists? 

200

He is identified as the figure that helped end the religious fervor of the Puritans in the early colonies.

Who was Metacom/ King Phillip?

200

This style of colony is allowed to operate independent of the Crown, as long as the monarch allows it. 

What is a charter style colony?

200

This was the mainstay for most coastal economies. 

What was fishing/whaling/ship building?

200

This proprietary colony was at one point governed by John Mason. 

What was Colonial New Hampshire?

300

He believed in the predestination of the soul, and was the role model for the Separatists. 

Who was John Calvin?

300

This disagreeing Puritan minister broke away from his community, and founded his own town with 100 followers in 1636.

Who was Thomas Hooker?

300

This colony was initially part of Delaware. 

What was Pennsylvania? 

300

These two companies were the most famous colonial charters. 

Virginia Bay Company and Massachusetts Bay Company. 

300

This colony split from another in 1719, and was established as a separate royal colony that same year. 

What was South Carolina?

400

This was the influence that both the Puritans AND the Separatists wanted to remove from the Church of England. 

What was Catholicism?

400

This preacher believed in the total separation church and state, which has become an important American ideal. 

Who was Roger Williams?

400

This colony was remarkable for having NO representative legislature, or political voice for its people. 

What was New York?

400

Trade, farming and mining. 

What was the basis of the economy for New Jersey? 

400

The establishment of this colony both served economic purposes and military purposes for Great Britain. 

What was colonial Georgia?

500

He was the founder of the Church of England.

Who was King Henry VIII?

500

This man joined Anne Hutchinson in her religious disagreement, and helped found Exeter, New Hampshire. 

Who was John Wheelwright?

500

This colony was founded by two religious dissenters in 1636 on the notion of religious toleration. Initially it was a charter colony, but that charter was revoked in 1663. 

What was Colonial Rhode Island?

500

This colony's economy was based on the labor of debtors.

What was Colonial Georgia's economic structure?

500

The Duke of York gifted land to these two individuals, so they could run a _________ colony. 

Sir George Carteret, Lord Berkeley; proprietary.