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4th Grade History Ch. 5-6

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Name the 4 New England colonies.   Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire  
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Who were the Puritans?   group that wanted to "purify" the Church of England  
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Name the colony founded by the Puritans in 1630.   Massachusetts Bay Colony  
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largest town in the Massachusetts Bay Colony   Boston  
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governor of Massachusetts   John Winthrop  
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the man who was beaten with a whip for preaching in Massachusetts   Obadiah Holmes  
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the man who founded Rhode Island   Roger Williams  
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first colony to offer complete religious freedom   Rhode Island  
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first settlement in Rhode Island   Providence  
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colony whose name is from the Indian word Quinnehtukqut   Connecticut  
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first major settlement in Connecticut   Hartford  
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document that established Connecticut's system of government; later, served as a pattern for the Constitution of the United States   Fundamental Orders of Connecticut  
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preacher that built the city of Hartford   Thomas Hooker  
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Who obtained New Hampshire and gave it its name   John Mason  
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"the city of brotherly love"   Philadelphia  
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new name for New Amsterdam   New York City  
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a chief commander in the navy   admiral  
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governor of the colony New Netherland   Peter Stuyvesant  
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people who live in the Netherlands   Dutch  
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Frenchman who explored what is now the northern part of New York   Samuel de Champlain  
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a valuable blue dye   indigo  
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large farms found throughout the Southern Colonies   plantations  
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the Middle Colonies   New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania  
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the Southern Colonies   Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia  
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the three countries that claimed New York   England, France, Holland  
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explorer hired by the Dutch to explore New York   Henry Hudson  
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claimed all of North America for England   John Cabot  
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people who settled Delaware   Swedes  
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original name for Delaware   New Sweden  
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who settled New Jersey   Dutch  
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two men who named New Jersey   Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley  
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colony founded by William Penn; refuge for Quakers   Pennsylvania  
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colony settled by poor people and prisoners   Georgia  
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founded the colony of Georgia   James Oglethorpe  
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first settlement in Georgia   Savannah  
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famous preacher who started America's first orphanage in Georgia   George Whitefield  
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colony founded as a refuge for Catholics   Maryland  
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colony that had a group of representatives called the House of Burgesses   Virginia  
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Whose idea was it to begin the colony of Maryland?   George Calvert  
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first settlement in Carolana   Charles Town  
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