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Colonies
Question | Answer |
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Jamestown | first permanent English colony in New World |
Captain John Smith | leader of Jamestown; helped colony to succeed; made rule "No work; no food" |
Plymouth | colony started by Pilgrims who were looking for religious freedoms |
Mayflower | ship used by Pilgrims to sail from England to Massachussetts |
1607 | the year Jamestown was founded |
Mayflower Compact | Contract agreed on by men traveling on Mayflower |
House of Burgesses | 1st lawmaking group in colonies; allowed representatives to vote for citizens |
Pilgrims | English colonists; settled Plymouth colony; came to New World for religious freedom |
Puritans | English colonists who settled in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 |
William Bradford | leader of the Pilgrims |
Massachusetts Bay Colony | colony founded for religious freedom but only for Puritans in 1630; eventually became the city of Boston |
Roger Williams | Founded Rhode Island in 1636 |
Maryland | a colony started by Catholics and Lord Baltimore in 1634 |
Lord Baltimore | title of man given permission to start Maryland; his name was George Calvert |
Pennsylvania | colony started to pay a debt the king owed; king offered land to William Penn; Pennsylvania=Penns' woods |
William Penn | man who started Pennsylvania colony; belonged to a group called Society of Friends (Quakers); allowed true religious fredom; main city was Philadelphia = city of Brotherly Love |
Carolinas | Colony was divided by the King |
Duke of York | brother of king; sent to drive out Dutch & Swedish settlers; settlers gave up without a fight |
Pocahontas | the daughter of an Indian chief, she married John Rolfe |
Georgia | last English colony; started partly for debtors, founded by James Oglethorpe |
James Oglethorpe | person who started the Georgia colony; did it partly to help debtors get out of prison |
Quakers | Religious group who settled in PA |
starving time | A time when many of the colonists, especially in Jamestown, died of hunger and diseases |
1620 | the year Plymouth was founded |
Roanoke | the first successful colony founded by Europeans (Spanish) |