Colonies
What was England’s first permanent settlement in North America?
Jamestown
What is the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland called?
Mason-Dixon Line
Who was the leader of the Puritans who led a group of people to North America and formed the Massachusetts Bay Company?
John Winthrop
What was the period of time called after John Smith’s departure from Jamestown?
What is the "starving time"
What colonies make up the New England colonies?
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut
What was the western part of Pennsylvania considered?
backcountry
Who founded Rhode Island after being expelled from Massachusetts?
Roger Williams
Who was in the Dutch ship that arrived in Virginia in 1690?
Who is 20 enslaved Africans?
What is a large farm where crops such as tobacco, sugar, rice, and cotton are grown?
Plantation
What colonies made up the Middle Colonies?
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware
Because of their practice of religious toleration, which Middle Colony were Jewish and Amish settlers most welcome?
Pennsylvania
Who founded Connecticut?
Thomas Hooker
Who was NOT protected under Maryland’s 1649 Act of Toleration?
Non-Christians
What do you call a person who agrees to work for a period of time in exchange for passage to America?
Indentured servant
Which colony began as a Dutch settlement?
New York
What are the names of the Southern Colonies?
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
Who founded Pennsylvania?
William Penn
What caused the Puritans to leave England?
What is persecution by England's king?
What crop developed in 1612 in Jamestown would be a major source of income?
Tabacco
Which colony was known as the breadbasket of America because of all the wheat it grew?
Pennsylvania
The first European settlers in Delaware were from what country?
Sweden
Who set up Maryland as a colony where Catholics could live safely?
George Calvert or Lord Baltimore
Name the frontier leader who led a rebellion that burned down Jamestown.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
What is a flat, often swampy, lowland area along the Southern coast called?
Tidewater