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Colonial period: The people
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Savannah | Georgia |
| Jamestown | Virginia |
| Wilmington | Delaware |
| Plymouth | Massachusetts |
| Philadelphia | Pennsylvania |
| Portsmouth | New Hampshire |
| Charleston | South Carolina |
| Providence | Rhode Island |
| Baltimore | Maryland |
| Hartford | Connecticut |
| Year the population of the American colonies reached 1,000,000 | 1750 |
| Reason joint-stock companies transported settlers to America | Hoped to mske a profit from trade between the colonies and England |
| Groups who sought religious freedom in the Bristish colonies in America | Pilgrims (Separatists), Puritans, Roman Catholics, Quakers, Huguenots |
| What settlers understood about life in America | It would be hard |
| Country which provided the most colonists to the British colonies in America | England (Great Britain) |
| In the mid-1700s, the largest city in the Thirteen Colonies | PHILADELPHIA |
| Three regions of American colonies | New England, Middle, Southern |
| Most populous region of the British Colonies in America | Middle Colonies |
| New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island | New England Colonies |
| New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania | Middle Colonies |
| North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia | Southern Colonies |
| Reasons colonists came to America | 1. Religious freedom 2. FGind work 3. Free and inexpensive land 4. Have a voice in their government |
| Period of time the Colonial Period existed | 1607-1775 |