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What colony is number 13
Georgia
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What colony is number 5
New York
100
What colony is number 7
New Jersey
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What colony is number 10
Virginia
100
What colony is number 6
Pennsylvania
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The Puritans came over to the new world in search of what?
Religious Freedom
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What was grown in the southern colonies?
Tobacco and cotton (cash crops)
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These people were forced to work on the plantations from sunup to sundown.
Enslaved Africans
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Who is the founder of Pennsylvania?
William Penn
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What was the first permanent English settlement in America?
Jamestown, Virginia
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They grew many grains like wheat and corn in what region that was called the Bread colonies?
The Middle Colonies
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What types of government systems were initially developed by British colonists?
Self-Government
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Georgia was founded by ...
James Oglethorpe
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Who founded Rhode Island? (2 people)
Roger Williams AND Anne Hutchinson
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The middle colonies were also known as the ...
Mid-Atlantic Colonies
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Why did so many colonists die in Jamestown?
Hostile Indians, starvation, poor leadership and government, lack of skills, contamination of water, and relations with Indians.
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New England colonists became well known for fishing because they could not grow a lot of crops. True or False
True
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What impact did British settlement have on enslaved Africans?
They treated slaves as nonhumans, they worked slaves to death, some died before arriving due to bad conditions on ships.
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Why was Georgia colonized? (3 reasons)
Buffer colony, debtor colony, and get rid of the poor in England
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What characteristic was most prominent in New Netherlands/New York?
Diverse Population
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What is a territory settled by people from another country and controlled by that country?
A colony
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What religion believed that both men and women could be ministers, would worship equally in meeting houses, and encouraged women to express their beliefs in public?
Quaker
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What motivated British settlers to come to America?
Freedom of faith, increase in wealth, and economic wealth.
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What was the document that the Pilgrims created that set aside laws and a social code called?
The Mayflower Compact
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What group of people is associated with the Middle Colonies and is known for wanting equal rights? (Think oats)
Quakers
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Why was it so difficult to grow European crops in the New England region?
Very Cold
Long winters
Hard, rocky soil
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What kinds of interactions took place between early explorers and American Indians?
Trade, shared land, conflict over land, slave trade, formed alliances, and diseases
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Which colony is known for being tolerant of both Native Americans and different religions? Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, or Virginia?
Pennsylvania
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Why was enslavement a more common practice in the South than in the middle and New England colonies
The other regions didn't rely on cash crops
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Which of the colonies is associated with whaling and lumber?
New England Colonies