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The English Colonies in America
Chapter 3
Highlight the answers in the packet!
3.1 Introduction
1. What is an indentured servant?
2. How were the Africans brought to America?
3.2 The New England, Middle, and Southern Colonial Regions
1. What are the three colonial regions?
2. List the New England colonies.
3. Describe the New England Region.
4. List the Middle colonies.
5. Describe the Middle Region.
6. List the Southern colonies.
7. Describe the Southern Region.
8. What were the cash crops?
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9. What are plantations?
10. Assembly—
11. Democratic—
3.3 Massachusetts: New England Colony
1. Puritans—
2. Who ruled the official Church of England?
3. Separatists—
4. Separatists set sail for America aboard the ____________________________________.
5. What was another name for the Separatists?
6. What was the first harvest called?
7. Who was the governor of Massachusetts?
3.4 Rhode Island: New England Colony
1. Slave trade—
2. Who were the founders of Rhode Island?
3. Providence means _______________________________________________________.
4.
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5. What colony was Anne Hutchinson was forced to leave?
6. Rhode Island was the one of the largest _______________________________________
in the world.
7. What did Reverend Cotton Mather call Rhode Island?
3.5 Connecticut: New England Colony
1. Who was the founder of Connecticut?
2. What was the written plan of government did Connecticut create?
3. Who granted the charter for Connecticut Colony?
4. What became a symbol of Connecticut’s freedom?
3.6 New York: Middle Colony
1. What was New York’s old name?
2. New York honor who?
3. What river had large estates?
4. What did the Duke of York expect from his colony?
5. How many laws did the first assembly have?
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6. New York was finally granted the power to _____________________________________
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3.7 Pennsylvania: Middle Colony
1. Who was the founder of Pennsylvania?
2. What were the two reasons King Charles II granted the request to establish
Pennsylvania?
3. What was another name for the Quakers?
4. What did Penn promise in his Great Law of 1682?
5. What was the capital?
6. What did it mean?
3.8 Maryland: Southern Colony
1. Who was the founder of Maryland?
2. What was the first law guaranteeing religious liberty?
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3. What was the religion in this colony?
3.9Virginia: Southern Colony
1. Who was the founder of Virginia?
2. What crop was Virginia economy based on?
3. How many years could an indentured servant work?
4. What were the indentured servants given with their freedom?
5. How much of Virginia’s population was enslaved Africans?
3.10 Georgia: Southern Colony
1. What was the founder of Georgia?
2. Who were the settlers in Georgia?
3. Who wanted control of Georgia?
4. What laws did Oglethorpe establish?
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