Starting a Colony
Unlike Spanish and French colonies, English colonies were open to almost this person.
anyone
The desire for this freedom was the main reason for founding the New England colonies.
religious freedom
The Pilgrims signed this document to establish their government.
Mayflower Compact
King Charles II gave Pennsylvania to this man to repay a debt owed to his father.
William Penn
Compared with New England, Middle Colony settlers came from a wider variety of these backgrounds.
cultural backgrounds
These companies provided funding for many English colonies.
joint-stock
This group wanted to purify the Anglican Church from within.
Puritans
The Mayflower Compact was an early agreement providing for this kind of government.
self-government
Pennsylvania’s founder hoped to protect this religious group.
Compared with New England, Middle Colony settlers came from a wider variety of these backgrounds.
paupers
These were the three types of English colonies.
charter, proprietary, and royal colonies
This group believed it should leave the Anglican Church entirely.
Separatists
The Pilgrims needed their own government because they landed outside the area governed by this document.
charter
This colony passed from Swedish control to Dutch control and then to English control.
Delaware
The Dutch concentrated on finding these two valuable resources for profit.
gold and furs
Colonists often lacked these two basic necessities needed to eat and stay protected from the weather.
food and shelter
Roger Williams founded this colony.
Rhode Island
This document is considered the first written constitution drawn up in America.
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
New Netherland was captured for this man, who became its proprietor
Duke of York
Name two of the three crops that were important in the Carolinas.
tobacco, rice, indigo
Besides shortages of food and shelter, name three dangers early colonists faced.
a dangerous voyage, longer winters, disease, and attacks by some Native American groups
This was the name of Roger Williams’s first settlement.
Name two of Roger Williams’s three criticisms of Massachusetts Bay.
Native Americans’ land rights were not recognized; the Puritans had not separated from the Anglican Church
England wanted New Netherland for these two reasons.
its good Atlantic harbor and its location separating New England from the southern colonies
Maryland’s first proprietor was Cecilius Calvert, better known by this title.
Lord Baltimore