Powerpoint Jeopardy
Early English
Settlements
New England
Colonies
Middle
Colonies
Southern
Colonies
Reason
this Colony
was FOUNDED
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Sir Walter Raleigh was
given the right to claim land
in North America by Queen
Elizabeth. What was the
name of that ‘Lost’ colony?
Which European nation
started colonization of North
America after the Spanish
Armada was defeated?
What was the first
permanent settlement in
North America?
The ______________
Company was a joint-stock
company. Which meant its
investors bought stock in
the company in return for a
share of its future profits.
In 1619, representatives of
the colony’s towns met to
create laws for the colony.
This group was known as
the __________ ____
__________.
Religious Freedom was a
major reason to settle in
America. Pilgrims
were part of this group that
wanted to leave and set up
their own churches.
This formal document pledged
loyalty to England. It also
declared their intention of
forming “a civil body politic,”
obey laws passed, and was the
initial step in developing a
representative government.
This state or colony had the
first documented constitution
in America, called the
“Fundamental Orders of
___________________.”
Roger ____________ was a minister
who was forced out of
Massachusetts.
He felt that people should not be
persecuted for their religious
practices and that government should
not force people to worship in a
certain way.
The Wampanoag chief,
Metacomet, and his allies
fought against the people
of New England in this
war?
People who refuse to use
force or fight in wars are
_______.
A colony in which the owner,
or proprietor, owned all the
land and controlled the
government.
Most of the people that
settled the New Amsterdam
came from what country?
William Penn sailed to
America in 1682
to supervise the building of
__________,
the “city of brotherly love.”
Settlers in Pennsylvania did not
have problems with the Native
Americans like settlers in New
England because the
Pennsylvania settlers did this for
the land, compared to the New
England settlers.
The Southern Colonies were
made up of Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
and ___________.
_____________came to America
upon the agreement to work
without pay for a certain length
of time.
Due to a feud between the
Calvert and Penn families,
The ______-______ line was
drawn to map the boundary
between Maryland and
Pennsylvania.
__________’s rebellion was caused
by opposing
the colonial government
because it was dominated by
easterners and a pledge made to stay
out of Native American territory.
These settlers paid their lord
an annual rent and worked for
him for a fixed number of
days each year.
Rhode Island was founded
for religious freedom, expand
trade, or profit from trade?
New York was founded
for religious freedom, expand
trade, or profit from trade?
North Carolina was founded
for religious freedom, expand
trade, or profit from trade and selling
land?
Massachusetts was founded
for religious freedom, expand
trade, or profit from trade?
Pennsylvania was founded on two
reasons which 2?
religious freedom, expand
trade, or profit from selling land?