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The very first colony to be created in the New World was ___________ and was founded by _______________. |
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2.
The Plymouth Colony merged with the Massachusetts Colony in what year? |
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3.
Carolina was established by King Charles II for _______________. |
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4.
When slaves were brought up from the West Indies, the cruel _________________ also followed with them, which would haunt African slaves for years to come. |
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Poor inhabitants of Virginia floated southward around the year 1653. They were outcasts and not wanted. What colony did these "squatters" form? |
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Which three Indian tribes kept the colonists from advancing past the Appalachian Mountains until about 1770? |
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7.
Georgia was **at first** meant to be established as a _____________ colony. (Not what Oglethorpe wanted to establish it as) |
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8.
James Oglethorpe constructed ________________ to be a ___________________. |
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9.
After Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where did he set up residence? |
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10.
William Penn set Pennsylvania up as a refuge for ______________. He managed to aquire the land because ________________ owed his dead father a large amount of money. |
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11.
Pennsylvania was by far the most advertised of all the colonies, as Penn hired men to send out pamphlets in English, Dutch, French, and German. |
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12.
Which colony was granted a charter in 1662 and merged with the smaller colony of New Haven? |
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13.
The place names and traditions around New York are greatly affected by the _________ that had settled there in the early 1600s. For example: Breuckelen (Brooklyn) |
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14.
The Dutch colony north of New Amsterdam was a very __________________ section of the New World. |
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15.
After ________________, the Dutch director-general, had to give up his settlement to the British, King Charles II renamed the city of New Amsterdam _______________. |
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16.
The colony of Delaware was split into two colonies after the original proprietors sold a large section in the West to a group of Quakers in 1674. |
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17.
___________________ wanted to make the newly acquired and chartered region of Maryland a refuge for __________________ in 1632. |
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18.
Which of the following people was a governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony? |
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19.
___________________ was purchased by Massachusetts in 1677. |
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20.
__________________ claimed that if a person was truly destined to go to heaven before they were born, then that person wouldn't need to live a holy life and could break the law whenever they felt like it. They would still be saved. This person was then banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. |
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