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Grade 05 - social studies - 13 English Colonies

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