Places
Where the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts.
What is Plymouth?
Founded the colony of Connecticut.
Took possession of Florida during the 1500s.
What is Spain?
Where the first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Pilgrims.
What is Massachusetts?
The King's church in England.
What is the Church of England?
Dutch colony that was renamed New York.
What is New Netherland?
Led the Quakers to Pennsylvania.
Who is William Penn?
Henry Hudson claimed New Netherland for this country.
What is Holland (Netherlands)?
Passed the Toleration Act, which gave religious freedom to all Christians.
What is Maryland?
Document giving permission to start a colony.
What is a charter?
Continent the explorers were looking for.
What is Asia?
Started a colony for poor people in English jails.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
Sent the explorer Verrazano in search of a route to Asia.
Two colonies formed from one.
What is North & South Carolina?
A cash crop grown in Virginia.
What is Tobacco?
Peter Minuit bought it for the Dutch from the Indians.
Captain and leader of the Jamestown settlers.
Who is John Smith?
Established the 13 colonies.
What is England?
King James I gave this land area to John Mason.
What is New Hampshire?
The term for the newly discovered lands in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the New World?
It came to be known as the Lost Colony.
What is Roanoke Island?
Failed in his attempt to start an English colony off the coast of North Carolina.
Who is Walter Raleigh?
Another name for Holland.
What is The Netherlands?
A Swedish colony which was captured by the Dutch and later the English.
What is Delaware?
The first constitution in America.
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?