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Name 1 of the New England Colonies
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut.
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List 1 of the Middle Colonies
Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York
100
List 1 of the Southern Colonies
Maryland, Virginia, Carolinas, Georgia
100
Under his leadership, the Jamestown colony was able to survive.
John Smith
100
Name the very first attempted colony .
Roanoke
200
These religious "separatists" wrote the Mayflower Compact on their way to Plymouth.
Pilgrims
200
The Quakers settled in this colony.
Pennsylvania
200
"For Glory, God and Gold" was the motto behind settling this very first successful English colony.
Jamestown, Virginia
200
This English gentleman founded Georgia because he was appalled at the horrible state of English prisons for debtors.
James Oglethorpe
200
Who is Jamestown named after?
King James I
300
What was the Mayflower Compact?
first document setting up government for the new colony
300
Most people in the middle colonies did what for a living?
farmed
300
Large farms in the southern colonies are known as what?
Plantations
300
This Puritan leader established the " city upon a hill" in Massachusetts Bay.
John Winthrop
300
The first cash crop in the North American Colonies was what?
Tobacco
400
New England forests were cut down and lumber was shipped to the coast where these were made.
Ships
400
Besides the Quakers what were the other main group of people to settle the Middle Colonies?
Dutch
400
One of the three major cash crops in the southern colonies
Tobacco, rice, indigo
400
This famous Quaker leader made peace with the local natives and bought their land.
William Penn
400
Name 3 different challenges of the Jamestown colony. Be specific.
rocky soil, weather, no food, fear of natives, wrong supplies
500
Name all 4 New England Colonies
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut
500
List all 4 of the New England Colonies
Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York
500
List all 4 of the Southern Colonies
Maryland, Virginia, Carolinas, Georgia
500
Who was the Queen of England during the late 1500s and allowed for the first colonies to be set up in North America by the English?
Queen Elizabeth I
500
Name the religious movement that swept through out all the colonies and increased religious tolerance.
The Great Awakening.