What was the period of hardship when settlers had no food that BOTH Jamestown and Plymouth endured?
100
The Mayflower Compact
What did the Pilgrims write and sign before landing in New England?
100
James Oglethorpe
Who is the founder of Georgia who opposed large plantations and slavery because he wanted to help poor settlers establish small farms?
100
New Netherland
What is the name of the colony that was built by the Dutch along the Hudson River (is now NY state)?
100
Indentured Servants
What is the name of people who agreed to work without pay for a landlord if the landlord paid for their passage to America?
200
Roger Williams
who is the founder of Rhode Island (he was banished from Mass.)?
200
Anne Hutchinson
Who fled to Rhode Island after being banned from Mass.? (She is Roger Williams' sister-in-law)
200
Peter Stuyvesant
Who expanded New Netherland by taking over he nearby colony of New Sweden in 1655?
200
proprietary colony
What is the name of a colony that only has a single owner?
300
He felt Puritans should NOT impose their beliefs on others
Why was Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts?
300
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
What expanded representative government by extending voting rights to non-church members?
300
Maryland
What Southern colony was founded on the Chesapeake Bay with the intention of being a society free from religios conflict?
300
New Jersey
What colony was given to Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley by the Duke of York?
300
The Act of Toleration
What is the name of the law that forbade religious persecution?
400
It should be separate from the state and not everyone should be forced to attend
What did Roger Williams think about the church?
400
Pilgrims
What is the name of the settlers at Plymouth that also endured a "starving time" like colonists in Jamestown?
400
Lord Baltimore
Who was the proprietor of Maryland?
400
Delaware
What colony was formed from three counties that were granted their own assembly by William Penn?
400
Huguenots
What are the group of French Protestants that went to Charles Town for religious refuge?
500
Puritans
Who is the group that founded Boston?
500
The House of Burgesses
What is the name of the first representative assembly in the colonies?
500
Carolina (North and South)
What was he colony that was founded by 8 supporters of the English monarchy?
500
William Penn
Who was the rich Quaker (who believed that sermons and ministers were obstacles to the direct experience of God) that King Charles II gave Pennsylvania to as a repayment of a debt?
500
Patroon
What is the system that would pay a colonist a large land grant if they got 50 settlers to accompany them to America? It is how New Netherland was founded.