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New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
Historical Names
This and That
100
thin, rocky and not good for farming
What is the soil?
100
Began as a "holy experiment"?
What is Pennsylvania?
100
A person who owns a property or business.
What is a proprietor?
100
Quaker leader who founded Pennsylvania.
Who was William Penn?
100
Portrait is on the Quaker Oats box.
Who is William Penn?
200
Wild game, berries and wood.
What are some natural resources of New England?
200
Treated Native Americans as equals and lived in peace with them.
Who was William Penn?
200
A person who owes money.
What is a debtor?
200
Disagreed with harsh Puritan beliefs and founded Rhode Island.
Who is Roger Williams?
200
Virginia, Maryland, Carolina and Georgia.
What are the Southern Colonies?
300
Learned to read and write and value learning.
Who are the children of New England?
300
Came to live in Pennsylvania because of William Penn's ideas.
What is many different immigrant groups?
300
A refuge for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
300
Chief of the Yamacrow who gave land for the Savannah settlement.
Who is Tomochichi?
300
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
What are the New England Colonies?
400
A special agreement.
What is a covenant?
400
When more than one group works together.
What is cooperation?
400
Where debtors could make a new start.
Why was Georgia founded?
400
First governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
Who is John Winthrop?
400
New York, Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
What are the Middle Colonies?
500
To allow people to have different beliefs from your own.
What is to tolerate?
500
Colonial governor of New Netherland.
Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
500
Established in 1607.
When was Virginia established?
500
Wampanoag sachem known to the English as King Philip.
Who is Metacomet?
500
Originally owned by the Dutch and called New Netherland.
What is New York?