New England Capitals
Middle Colony Capitals
Southern Capitals
Name That Colony
Colonial Geography
Capital Challenges
100

This city is the current capital of Massachusetts.

What is Boston?

100

Albany, rather than New York City, is this state’s current capital.

What is New York?

100

This city is the current capital of Georgia.

What is Atlanta?

100

This original colony shares its name with the modern state whose capital is Providence.

What is Rhode Island?

100

This was the southernmost of the original 13 colonies.

What is Georgia?

100

The southernmost original colony became a state with this current capital.

What is Atlanta?

200

This city is the current capital of Rhode Island.

What is Providence?

200

This city is the current capital of Pennsylvania.

What is Harrisburg?

200

This city is the current capital of Virginia.

What is Richmond?

200

This original colony shares its name with the modern state whose capital is Dover.

What is Delaware?

200

Including its territory in present-day Maine, this was the northernmost of the original 13 colonies.

What is Massachusetts?

200

The northernmost original colony, counting its Maine territory, shares its name with a state that has this current capital.

What is Boston?

300

This city is the current capital of Connecticut.

What is Hartford?

300

This city is the current capital of New Jersey.

What is Trenton?

300

This city is the current capital of Maryland.

What is Annapolis?

300

This original colony shares its name with the modern state whose capital is Annapolis.

What is Maryland?

300

This present-day state was part of Massachusetts during the Revolutionary era and therefore was not a separate member of the original 13.

What is Maine?

300

Hartford and Providence are the current capitals of these two neighboring states, respectively.

What are Connecticut and Rhode Island?

400

This city is the current capital of New Hampshire.

What is Concord?

400

This city is the current capital of Delaware.

What is Dover?

400

This city is the current capital of North Carolina.

What is Raleigh?

400

Its modern state capital is Concord, and it lay immediately north of Massachusetts’s main territory.

What is New Hampshire?

400

This colony lay directly north of Georgia and directly south of North Carolina.

What is South Carolina?

400

New York City and Philadelphia are not their states’ current capitals; these two cities are, respectively.

What are Albany and Harrisburg?

500

Although its territory included present-day Maine, this colony’s modern namesake state has Boston as its capital.

What is Massachusetts?

500

These two Middle Colony states have current capitals named Harrisburg and Trenton, respectively.

What are Pennsylvania and New Jersey?

500

Charleston was an important colonial city, but this inland city is South Carolina’s current capital.

What is Columbia?

500

Its modern state capital is Raleigh, and it lay between Virginia and South Carolina.

What is North Carolina?

500

These three original colonies lay along the Atlantic coast between New Hampshire and New York: Massachusetts, Connecticut, and this colony.

What is Rhode Island?

500

Name the current capitals of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, in that north-to-south order.

What are Richmond, Raleigh, and Columbia?