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Northern Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
100
Jamestown legislative assembly
What is House of Burgesses
100
People who refuse to use force or fight in wars
What is a Pacifist
100
They formed the Massachusetts Bay Company.
Who are the Puritans?
100
Colony given to the Duke of York.
What is New York?
100
Safe place for Catholics and Protestants to live.
What is Maryland?
200
"city of brotherly love"
What is Philadelphia
200
Religious settlements
What is a mission?
200
Pilgrims pledged their loyalty to England
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
The Duke of York gave this Southern part of New York to two proprieters.
What is New Jersey?
200
A colony set up for debtors.
What is Georgia?
300
A group that maintained the friendliest relations with the Native Americans
Who are the French?
300
A colony in which the owner owns all the land and controls the government
What is a proprieter?
300
Boston's colony governer
Who is John Winthrop?
300
He received this colony as payment for a debt that the king owed to his father.
What is Pennsylvania
300
King Charles II created a proprietary colony.
What is Carolina?
400
The region claimed and named in honor of King Louis XIV.
What is Louisiana?
400
Settlers who paid their lord an annual rent and worked for him for a fixed number of days each year.
What is a tenant farmer?
400
Roger Williams was forced out of Massachusetts and formed this colony.
What is Rhode Island?
400
Offered large areas of land to anyone who could bring at least 50 settlers to work.
What is the Dutch West India Company?
400
This was carved on a gatepost at Roanoke.
What is Croatoan
500
The missions helped the Spanish claim this land.
What is California?
500
Documents granting the right to organize settlements in an area.
What is a charter?
500
Name the 4 Northern colonies.
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
500
The Swedes settled in southern Pennsylvania and operated as a seperate colony under Pennsylvania's governer.
What is Delaware?
500
This man opposed the colonial government as well as the pledge to stay out of Native American territory.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?