Getting Things Started
What colony did Sir Walter Raleigh start at Roanoke?
Virgina
What religious group, of which the Pilgrims were a part, called for a break from the Church of England?
Separatists
What was the Native American name of the leader of the Wampanoag tribe that began King Phillip's War?
Metacom
What company founded New Netherland?
Dutch West India Co.
What individual established the colony of Maryland?
Lord Baltimore
What company got a charter and settled Jamestown?
Virginia Company of London
What religious group started the Great Migration?
Puritans
What colony was founded by Roger Williams?
Rhode Island
What two individuals were given the colony of New Jersey?
Sir George Carteret & Lord John Berkeley
What town founded in 1670 became the main city in the colony of South Carolina?
Charleston
Who made up the majority of settlers in the Sagadahoc colony in Maine?
English Convicts
What religious group believed that each person could know God directly through an "inner light"?
Quakers
Who established Exeter in the New Hampshire colony?
John Wheelright
What individual who joined the Quakers founded Pennsylvania?
William Penn
What are Huguenots?
Who did John Rolfe marry in order to get along with the Powhatans?
Pocahontas
What two Native Americans helped the Plymouth colonists negotiate a peace treaty with Native Americans?
Samoset & Squanto
Name any two of the things taught in the "New England Way".
Society emphasized duty, Godliness, hard work, honesty; believed God required them to work long and hard at their vocation; laws required that all children learn to read (the Bible)
Whose brother drove the Dutch out of New Netherland and renamed it New York?
King Charles II
What individual founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors?
James Oglethorpe
Why did Nathaniel Bacon lead Bacon's Rebellion?
Governor Berkeley refused to approve a war against the Native Americans.
Who was governor of the Massachusetts colony?
John Winthrop
What document gave voting rights to non-church members in Connecticut?
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
What colony did the three lower counties of Pennsylvania become?
Delaware
What religious group fled persecution in England and came to the colony of Maryland?
Roman Catholics