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Thirteen Colonies
Thirteen Colony information
Question | Answer |
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Who founded Jamestown? | The Virginia Company |
When was Jamestown founded? | 1607 |
Who founded Maryland? | George Calvert |
Mayflower Compact | The first written framework of government established in what is now the United States. Signed by 41 English Colonists on November 11, 1620. |
Puritans | A group of English Protestants in the late 16th and 17th centuries who believed the reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth I was incomplete. They simplified forms of worship. |
King Philip's War | Also known as the Metacom's War. An armed conflict between Native Americans and English colonists from June 1675 to August 1676. |
Pilgrims | English colonists who settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620 after fleeing England to find religious and political tolerance in Holland. |
Great Migration | Lasted from 1620 to 1640. A movement of English settlers, primarily families of Puritans, to Massachusetts and the West Indies. |
What was the first colony? | Roanoke |
What was the first colony to survive? | Jamestown |