Founders
Pennsylvania
William Penn
Landed at Plymouth Rock, Founded Massachusetts
The Pilgrims
What phrase is used to help us remember the Middle Colonies?
New Pennies, New Dimes
Where was Ben Franklin Born?
Boston, Massachusetts
What country sent the pilgrims and the puritans to america?
England; Great Britain
Connecticut
Thomas Hooker
What phrase is used to help us remember the names of the New England Colonies?
Never Make Cynthia Run
What group bought New Jersey from James, the Duke of York. (Hint: They were a religious group)
The Quakers
Four / All of them
What was the first lawmaking body in the colonies?
The House of Burgesses
New York
This group of people sought to purify the church in the new colonies.
The Puritans
What was New York City known as before it was New York City?
New Amsterdam
When writing in the newspaper as a teenager, Ben Franklin had a fake name he used as an alias. What was the fake name?
Mrs. Silence Dogood
What was Pennsylvania's government called that where a general assembly made laws, and it gave freedom of speech, worship, and trial by jury?
Deleware
William Penn
Governor of Massachusetts
John Winthrop
What country did England declare war with to get the colony of New York?
Holland
Who was Ben Franklin married to?
Deborah Read
Which colony had the "Fundamental Orders," where all land owners were able to vote for leaders?
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Roger Williams
Providence
What does Pennsylvania mean?
Penn's woods
Name two of the many things that Ben Franklin invented, started, or wrote.
Answers may include the bifocals, water fins, the glass harmonica, the first fire house, the first library, the first university, he discovered electricity, Poor Richard's Almanac, & The Pennsylvania Gazette.
What document was signed aboard the Mayflower guaranteeing equal rights among those aboard the mayflower?
The Mayflower Compact