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Early Explorers
William Penn's Colony
The Growing Colony
Life in the New Colony
Map Skills
100
A person who travels in search of something.
What is an explorer?
100
The reason why William Penn wanted to leave England and settle in Pennsylvania.
What is religious tolerance?
100
A person who moves to a new country.
Who is an immigrant?
100
The name of the area that describes the country, away from cities.
What is rural?
100
The imaginary lines that run east and west over the Earth's surface.
What are lines of Latitude?
200
From England, he became one of the first explorers to come to present-day Pennsylvania.
Who is John Smith?
200
An official document that tells how something should be done.
What is a charter?
200
The buying and or selling of goods.
What is trade?
200
Someone who agreed to work for a wealthy colonist for a period of time in order to pay off a debt.
What is an indentured servant?
200
The imaginary lines that run north and south over the Earth's surface.
What are lines of Longitude?
300
A settlement ruled by a distant country.
What is a colony?
300
A group of people who come together to make laws.
What is an assembly?
300
The goods and services a community uses and produces.
What is the economy?
300
The inventor of the stove, the lightning rod, and bifocals.
Who is Ben Franklin?
300
The line of longitude that measures "0" degrees.
What is the Prime Meridian?
400
The first permanent settlement in part of Pennsylvania.
What is New Sweden?
400
The city that Penn built who's name means "brotherly love" in Greek.
What is Philadelphia?
400
A business that makes goods or provides services.
What is industry?
400
The scientist known as the "father of American botany".
Who is John Bartram?
400
The line of latitude in which the North Pole is located.
What is 90 degrees North?
500
The capital of New Sweden.
What is Tinicum Island?
500
The group of American Indians that Penn established a good relationship with and signed many treaties with.
Who are the Lenni Lenape?
500
The treaty that allowed colonists to buy land from American Indians by walking as far as you could in a day and a half.
What is the Walking Purchase?
500
The job in which most wealthy people worked, where people could buy and trade goods.
What is a merchant?
500
The full name of the acronymn "G.P.S."
What is "Global Positioning System"?