Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Know Your Colonies
100

Name the two colonies that border Virginia 

Maryland and North Carolina 

100

What is the name of the person who convinced the king to allow a colony for Catholics to live in 

Sir George Calvert (AKA Lord Baltimore) 

100

Made up of this religious group 

Quakers 

100

New Amsterdam is now known as _____________. 

New York 

200

Virginia had a system in which a settler received a certain amount of land for every person they brought to Virginia 

Head-right system

200

Who had to set up plantations and become farmers to support themselves? 

Jesuit priests

200

Name of the founder of this colony 

William Penn

200

This individual formed the colony of Delaware in 1701

William Penn

300

What was the main economic source coming out of Virginia?

Tobacco

300

The majority of people in Maryland were _________

Protestants

300

The "city of brotherly love" is also known as 

Philadelphia 

300

Who founded the colony of New Jersey?

Two of Duke James' friends

400

Virginia tended to be supporters of the king (name the term for this) 

Royalists

400
Lord Baltimore was Maryland's proprietor, which means that... 

the king granted him the colony as a personal domain

400

What is a pacifist?

One that condemns violence

400

This individual was given the colony of New York by the king (list name and title) 

James, Duke of York 

500

Name the three activities that Virginians enjoyed doing

horse racing, drinking, and the fox chase 

500

How much land did the "lord of the manor" have?

2,000

500

Who founded Germantown?

Franz Daniel Pastorius 

500

General ________, as well as a group of philanthropists established Georgia as a refuge for _______. 

General James Edward Oglethorpe; debtors