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13 English Colonies
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Who was the first English Explorer in 1497?
What was the Protestant Reformation?
Sir Walter Raleigh was the founder of what colony?
Who was the Virgin Queen?
Why did it take John White 3 years to return to Roanoke?
What horror did John White find at Roanoke when he returned?
Which man was the founder of Jamestown and the leader of the Virginia
Company?
8. What group of Native American lived in the Chesapeake Bay Area?
9. What were some of the problems that Jamestown had early on?
10.What crop helped Virginia become successful?
11.Who married Pocahontas but was killed by Indians in 1622?
12.This was the first English Government created in the English Colonies.
Happened in 1619.
13.What were headrights?
14.Who was the founder of Maryland?
15.Why did Maryland become a colony?
16.What is the difference between a Royal Colony and a Proprietary Colony?
17.When did the Pilgrims land at Plymouth?
18.What was the Mayflower Compact?
19.Who was the Pilgrims leader?
20.Who showed the pilgrims how to survive in the New World?
21.Who was the first Governor of Boston and the founder of Massachusetts?
22.Which colonies make up New England?
23.What was The Great Migration? How many people came to
Massachusetts as a result of it taking place? When did it happen?
24.Tell me who the two founders of Rhode Island are, and why they were
forced to leave Boston? What cities did they found?
25.Who was Thomas Hooker?
26.What was the fundamental of Connecticut?
27.Who were Fernando Gorges and John Mason?
28.Which Colonies make up the Middle Colonies? (There are four)
29.Why do we call the Middle Colonies the Restoration Colonies?
30.Who was Oliver Cromwell?
31.Who originally controlled New York and what was it called?
32.Why did the English and Charles II want this land?
33.Who was Henry Hudson?
34.Who is New York named after?
35.What religious group did William Penn belong, and what colony did he
found?
36.What is Pacifism?
37.When did Pennsylvania become a colony?
38.How did William Penn get the land from King Charles II, and why?
39.What crops were successful in South Carolina?
40.Why was Philadelphia called the “City of Brotherly Love”?
41.What is the Latin word for Charles?
42.How is North and South Carolina different? (Economically, geographically,
population, and culture)
43.What South Carolina City was the 4th largest city in the English Colonies?
44.What was the most populated city in the English Colonies before the
American Revolution (1776)?
45.Why did Georgia become a colony? There is more than one reason.
46.Who was the founder of Georgia?
47.Which King was Georgia named after?
48.List the 13 English Colonies and the people that founded them?