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13 Colonies

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Who was the first governor of Massachusetts?   John Winthrop  
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Why was Mass. founded?   Religious freedom for puritans  
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What is the difference between Puritans and Separatists?   Puritans wanted to purify the Anglican Church, Separatists left the Anglican Church  
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What is subsistence farming?   Only growing enough for the farmer's family  
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Who founded Rhode Island?   Roger Williams  
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Which New England colony practiced religious tolerance?   Rhode Island  
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Who was Anne Hutchinson?   She was banished from Massachusetts for having different ideas from the Puritans  
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Who founded Connecticut?   Thomas Hooker  
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What was the first constitution written in America?   The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut  
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Which colony was the only New England colony that was not founded for religious purposes?   New Hampshire  
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What were naval stores?   Products for building and maintaining ships  
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What does mercantilism say was better: to import or to export?   Export  
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What did the triangular trade route take to America?   Slaves  
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Who was Metacomet (King Philip)?   A Native American leader who went to war against the English  
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What were meeting houses?   Where Sunday services were held and decisions were voted on  
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How were the middle colonies different from the New England colonies?   They were more diverse and had a longer growing season  
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What were cash crops?   Crops grown to be sold  
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What was the Conestoga wagon used for?   Getting things from landlocked places with no rivers to seaports to be traded  
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What were patroons?   Landowners who were granted land  
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What were tenant farmers?   Farmers who used a patroon's land  
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What was an apprentice?   A person who learned a craft without pay  
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What was a disadvantage of living on a frontier   Less people and worse land  
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What country owned New York originally?   The Netherlands  
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What was the difference between a royal and proprietary colony   A royal colony was under control of the English king. A proprietary colony was given to someone else by the king.  
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Who took over New Netherland?   James the Duke of York  
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What governor of New Netherland took over New Sweden?   Peter Stuyvesant  
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Why was New Jersey founded?   New York was too large  
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Who founded Pennsylvania?   William Penn  
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Why was Pennsylvania founded?   Religious freedom for Quakers, everyone was equal  
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What is a pacifist?   A person who believes that war and violence are unjustifiable  
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What was the first English colony in America called?   Jamestown  
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Who claimed the land for England that would be used to start Jamestown?   John Cabot  
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Why was the peninsula that the settlers chose to start Jamestown a bad location?   It was full of diseases and was surrounded by Native Americans  
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What leader of Jamestown made the settlers work for food?   John Smith  
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What Native American saved Jamestown from starvation by making peace with settlers?   Pocahontas  
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What cash crop did John Rolfe discover that helped Jamestown earn money?   Tobacco  
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Who did Pocahontas marry?   John Rolfe  
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Did Jamestown have a government?   No  
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What was a joint-stock company?   A company with stocks that can be bought  
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What was the difference between an indentured servant and a slave?   Indentured servants were set free in America after a certain number of years, while slaves were property that could be owned and were not set free.  
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What were burgesses?   Representatives who were elected by adult males who were landowners  
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What did George Calvert (Lord Baltimore) want?   He wanted to start a colony for religious freedom for Roman Catholics  
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Who founded Maryland?   Cecil Calvert (George Calvert died before he could start the colony)  
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Why was Maryland founded?   Religious freedom for Catholics  
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Who was tolerated by the Toleration Act in Maryland?   Christians  
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Who founded Carolina?   Eight aristocrats  
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Who founded Georgia?   James Oglethorpe  
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Why did James Oglethrope want Georgia to be founded?   Home for debtors  
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Why did the king want Georgia to be founded?   Protection against Spain  
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What was not allowed in Georgia?   Slavery and alcohol  
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What were the three major cash crops in the southern colonies?   Tobacco, rice, and indigo  
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What is the difference between urban and rural?   Urban describes a city, rural is more spread out with farms  
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What part of the triangular trade route took slaves to the colonies?   The Middle Passage  
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What were slave codes?   Laws in the southern colonies that took rights away from slaves  
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How was tidewater important to the southern colonies?   It made the soil fertile for farming and it made trade easier  
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Why were there few seaports in the southern colonies?   The southern colonies were mostly rural  
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What was the movement that drove 15,000 Puritans to Massachusetts called?   The Great Migration  
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What didn't Nathaniel Bacon like about Jamestown's government?   It refusing to protect against Native Americans  
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What were the laws that restricted the colonies from trading except to England?   Navigation acts  
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What did the separatists who left England call themselves   Pilgrims  
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Did the English have a good relationship with the Native Americans?   No  
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