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100
King James I granted these to merchants to organize settlements in America.
charters
100
The Jamestown settlers saved their colony by planting what?
Tobacco
100
Protestants who wanted to reform the Anglican Church were called what?
Puritans
100
To keep other European powers from threatening its empire in America, Spain sent soldiers, settlers, and what?
missionaries
100
Puritans formed the New England Company and received a royal charter to establish what Company?
Massachusetts Bay Company
200
Who wrote Pennsylvania's first constitution?
William Penn
200
What law granted the right to worship freely in Maryland?
Act of Toleration
200
Protestants who left the Anglican Church and established their own churches were called what?
Separatists
200
What did the Jamestown colonists call the winter of 1609-1610?
The starving time
200
What document covered land distribution and social ranking?
Carolina constitution
300
Who claimed Newfoundland for Queen Elizabeth?
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
300
What colony was created so debtors and poor people could start over?
Georgia
300
Where in America was religious tolerance first practiced?
Rhode Island
300
A New Netherland landowner was called what?
Patroon
300
The movement that drove 15,000 Puritans to Massachusetts was called what?
The Great Migration
400
Who was "the greatest rebel that ever was in Virginia," according to Governor William Berkeley?
Nathaniel Bacon
400
What was the last British colony to be established in America?
Georgia
400
What group founded the colony of Pennsylvania?
Quakers
400
What island was purchased for a small amount of beads and other goods?
Manhattan
400
Which group maintained the friendliest relations with Native Americans?
the French
500
Who was Virginia's governor?
Sir William Berkeley
500
The pilgrims founded this colony.
Plymouth
500
Because their journey had a religious purpose, Separatists called theselves what?
Pilgrims
500
Workers who paid their French lords an annual rent were known as what?
tenant farmers
500
What law protected Catholics from any attempt to make Maryland a Protestant colony?
Act of Toleration