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Grade 05 - social studies - 13 English Colonies

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What country founded Delaware?   Sweden  
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What was Cecelius Calvert's reason for establishing Maryland?   Religious tolerance  
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Who founded Roanoke?   Sir Walter Raleigh  
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What two colonies did Sweden found?   New Jersey and Delaware  
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The Virginia Company founded what city/site?   Jamestown  
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Who founded Massachusetts?   Puritans  
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What was Thomas Hooker's reason fo establishing Connecticut?   Religious tolerance  
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What colony was established for the poor of England?   Georgia  
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North Carolina and South Carolina were established by who?   French Protestants and English settlers  
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Jamestown might have failed if who had not saved them?   Natives  
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Which two colonies were set up for English and French Protestants for farming and business, especially for tobacco?   North Carolina and South Carolina  
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Who founded Jamestown?   The Virginia Company  
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Why was Jamestown founded?   For wealth and land  
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Why was Roanoke founded?   For wealth and land  
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Why was Plymouth founded?   For freedom of religion  
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Who founded Plymouth?   The Puritans  
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Why was Massachusetts founded?   Religious tolerance/freedom  
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Who founded New Hampshire?   Massachusetts and John Mason  
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Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn and who else?   Quakers  
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A crop that is sold to earn income   cash crop  
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a person who owned and controlled all the land of a colony   proprieter  
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to respect beleifs that are different from your own   tolerance  
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a big farm on which crops are raised by workers who live there   plantation  
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when a group of people make laws for themselves   self-government  
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How did tobacco contribute to Jamestown becoming a lasting settlement?   Jamestown could produce a cash crop that was needed in England  
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What influence did geography have on New England's colonists earning a living?   New England was close to the ocean and became a center for fishing, whaling, shipbuilding, and trading  
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What was the Mayflower Compact?   First written plan of self-government in North America  
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What was the House of Burgesses?   The first representative government in the English colonies  
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