American Republic Chapter 2

New England, Middle, Southern

What are the three groups of colonies?

Roman Catholics & Protestants

What two religious groups settled Maryland?

Williamsburg

Which colonial city was the leading center of government and culture in the southern colonies?

Massachusetts

Which colony was heavily populated during the "Great Migration"?

tobacco, rice, indigo

What are the three cash crops of the Carolina colonies?

William Penn

Who was given a colony as a payment of debt?

Royal

What type of colony was directed by a king?

Joint-stock companies

What helped raise money to support a NEW colony?

New England colonies

Which colonies were all original colonies?

Cecilius Calvert

Which Lord Baltimore established a colony for Roman Catholics?

Connecticut

Which colony was settled by people from Massachusetts Bay who wanted more land?

Savannah

What was the first settlement of Georgia?

Separatists

What religious group did the Pilgrims belong to?

Act of Toleration

What act did Maryland pass that guaranteed religious freedom?

John Winthrop

What governor wanted Massachusetts to be a "City upon a Hill"?

Roger Williams

Who disagreed with the Puritan leaders of Massachusetts Bay Colony?

James Oglethorpe

Founder of Georgia

land for debtors

What was Georgia known as?

1620

What year did the Pilgrims reach America?

Roger Williams

What man founded Providence?

Society of Friends

What name did the Quakers go by?

New Netherland

What did New York previously go by?

Patroons

name for those who received larger grants of land in the Dutch Colony

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

first written constitution drawn up in America

Charter colonies

founded by a charter containing the rules governing where the colony would be located and how it would be administered

Proprietary colonies

a type of colony given to individuals or groups by the king

New England

colonies that were established for religious freedom

Pilgrims

Separatists from Scrooby, England

Mayflower Compact

first document to provide for self-government in the New World

Samoset

first Indian to greet the English

Delaware

colony that was first settled by Swedes

William Bradford

first governor of Plymouth colony

Rhode Island

First colony to guarantee religious freedom

Thomas Hooker

Who founded Connecticut?

New Hampshire

Which colony was founded due to overcrowding in Massachusetts?

New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware

What were the middle colonies?

Henry Hudson

explored modern day New York, allowing the Dutch to claim the region

Peter Minuit

governor of the colony responsible for buying Manhattan from the Indians

patroons

recipients of large land grants for bringing fifty settlers to the New World

Peter Stuyvesant

tyrannical governor of New Netherland

Middle Colonies

Which colonies were influenced by other nations?

New England colonies

Which colonies were primarily settled by the English?

tobacco

virginia's leading crop

North and South Carolina

Where did Charles II rewardhis loyal followers with a New World territory?

warmer climate, single-crop economies, slave labor

three characteristics of Southern colonies

Quaker

What was William Penn's religion?

economic freedom political freedom religious freedom adventure

Reasons why English settlers came to America

Dutch & Swedes

the middle colonies had original settlements y what two groups

Massachusetts Bay

Which colony required everyone to attend church

Duke of York (James)

Who did the King of England give the Dutch colony of New Netherland to?