Answer | Question |
New York City | Which of these was originally called New Amsterdam? |
New Jersey | Which of the following was named after an island in the English Channel? |
William Penn | He designed the “City of Brotherly Love.” |
Charter of Privileges | What 1701 document granted Pennsylvania colonists the right to elect legislative representatives? |
Delaware | William Penn allowed some of Pennsylvania’s southern counties to function as a separate colony called ________. |
Quakers | This group founded the colony of Pennsylvania |
patroon | a landowner in New Netherland |
pacifist | someone who refuses to fight wars |
proprietor | the sole owner and ruler of a colony |
Peter Stuyvesant | He surrendered to the English without a fight in 1664 |
Maryland | Which colony was founded as a place for Catholics to practice their religion freely? |
indigo | What Carolina crop was developed in the 1740s by Eliza Lucas? |
Georgia | Which of these colonies was established as a place for debtors to make a fresh start? |
"Charles's Land" | The word “Carolina” is Latin for |
Maryland and Pennsylvania | Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon determined the border between these two colonies. |
Indentured | ____________________ servants were settlers who paid for their passage to America by working without pay for a period of time. |
Virginia | Bacon’s Rebellion was a revolt against the government of the ____________________ colony. |
Africa | People from the continent of ____________________ were enslaved in the Southern Colonies. |
Native Americans | In 1676 Nathaniel Bacon led a series of attacks against villages inhabited by ______________________________. |
Georgia | Founded in 1733, ____________________ was the last English colony established in North America. |
debtor | A person or country that owes money |
Nathaniel Bacon | He lead a rebellion against the governor of Virginia |
constitution | a list of fundamental laws to support a government |
James Oglethorpe | He founded the colony of Georgia |