Founding Fathers
Founded Pennsylvania for the Quakers
William Penn
Hired to explore New York for the Dutch
Henry Hudson
changed name to New York City
New Amsterdam
This colony gets its name from an Indian word
Connecticut
Pennsylvania was founded as a refuge for which group of people?
Quakers
Settled the city of Hartford, Connecticut
Thomas Hooker
Started America's first orphanages
George Whitfield
the city of brotherly love
Philidelphia
The colony was settled by poor people and prisoners from England
Georgia
Georgia is one of the ___________ colonies.
Southern
had the idea to idea to start Maryland
George Calvert
governed Massachusetts honestly and fairy
John Winthrop
Largest city in Rhode Island
Providence
This colony was claimed by three different countries
(bonus points on test if you can tell which three)
New York
(French, Dutch, English)
What valuable dye was produced by the Southern colonies?
indigo
Founded Georgia for poor people and prisoners
James Ogelthorpe
went to England to get Rhode Island's charter
John Clarke
Largest city in Massachusetts
Boston
Which colony's charter guaranteed complete religious freedom?
Rhode Island
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut later served as a pattern for which important document?
The Constitution