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Reading Questions: The 13 Colonies
Directions: Read the article “The 13 Colonies.” Answer the questions. Make sure you use
COMPLETE SENTENCES.
1. What cash crop did settlers in Jamestown grow to make money?
2. What was the House of Burgesses?
3. What happened to Virginia Colony?
4. Who were Puritans?
5. What was the Mayflower Compact?
6. What did the colony of Connecticut have first?
7. What did the Rhode Island colony have first?
8. What people started the colonies of New York, New Jersey, and Delaware?
9. Who founded the colony of Pennsylvania?
10. Why did people fight in Maryland Colony?
11.Why was the colony of Georgia created?