APUSH Mnemonic MRCaN, 2 New Dramatic Preachers, and Virginia Goes 2C Mary

MRCaN - Massachusetts. What was the name of the colony established?

Massachusetts Bay Colony

MRCaN - Massachusetts. Who led the puritans?

John Winthrop

MRCaN - Massachusetts. What was a famous phrase from his sermon?

City Upon a Hill

MRCaN - Massachusetts. This is when 15,000 settlers came int he 1630s?

Great Migration

MRCaN - Rhode Island. Who founded this colony (man)?

Roger Williams

MRCaN - Rhode Island. What was the name of the woman who was kicked out of Massachusetts?

Anne Hutchinson

MRCaN - Rhode Island. What was established in this colony?

Separation of Church and State

MRCaN - Connecticut. What was the name of the 1st written constitution?

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

MRCaN - Connecticut. Who founded this colony?

Thomas Hooker

2 New Dramatic Preachers - New York. Who originally owned it?

Dutch

2 New Dramatic Preachers - New York. After England took it over, this colony was named after the King of England’s brother. What was his name?

Duke of York

2 New Dramatic Preachers - Pennsylvania. Who was the founder of this colony?

William Penn

2 New Dramatic Preachers - Pennsylvania. What was his religion?

Quaker

2 New Dramatic Preachers - Pennsylvania. What two characteristics define this colony?

Religious freedom and fair treatment of natives

2 New Dramatic Preachers - Pennsylvania. This colony was known as a “H___ E_________”

Holy Experiment

Virginia Goes 2C Mary - Virginia. The 1st permanent English colony was founded in this year?

1607

Virginia Goes 2C Mary - Virginia. Where was it founded?

Jamestown

Virginia Goes 2C Mary - Virginia. What was the name of the company that chartered it?

Virginia Company

Virginia Goes 2C Mary - Virginia. This company was a joint stock company. What were its two goals?

Find gold and passageway to Asia

Virginia Goes 2C Mary - Virginia. What were the names of the two people who saved it?

Captain John Smith and John Rolfe

Virginia Goes 2C Mary - Virginia. One of the men who saved it married an Indian woman. What was her name?

Pocahontas

Virginia Goes 2C Mary - Virginia. What evil institution was introduced here in 1619?

Slavery

Virginia Goes 2C Mary - Georgia. Who founded this colony?

James Oglethorpe

Virginia Goes 2C Mary - Georgia. Name two purposes of this colony.

Buffer zone between the Carolinas and Spanish Florida and haven for debtors

Virginia Goes 2C Mary - Carolina. What were the 3 main crops of these two colonies?

Rice, Indigo, and Tobacco

Virginia Goes 2C Mary - Maryland. Who founded it?

Lord Baltimore

Virginia Goes 2C Mary - Maryland. What was its purpose?

Haven for Catholics

Virginia Goes 2C Mary - Maryland. What act in 1649 granted religious freedom to all Christians?

Act of Toleration