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What did the Puritans want to do?

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Purify or remove all the things that they thought were bad from the church of England

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Name the four New England Colonies.

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Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire

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What did the Puritans name their colony?

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Massachusetts Bay colony

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What was the biggest town in Massachusetts Bay colony?

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Boston

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Who was one of the most famous leaders of the Puritans?

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Gov. John Winthrop

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How many times was Gov. John Wynthrop elected governor?

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12

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Who were the only people that could vote in Massachusetts?

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Puritans

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Name the Baptist preacher that was arrested and beaten for preaching in Boston

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Obadiah Holmes

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What did Roger Williams name the land he bought from the Indians?

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Providence

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Why did people want to move to Roger Williams colony?

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It offered religious freedom

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What did Roger Williams name is Colony?

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Rhode Island

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Who did the people from Rhode Island send to England to get a charter?

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Dr. John Clark

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What was the first colony to offer complete religious freedom?

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Rhode Island

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Who founded Rhode Island?

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Roger Williams

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Who gave New Hampshire it’s name?

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John Mason

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What does Quinnehtukqut mean?

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On or beside the river

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What provided a good pattern for the Constitution of the United States?

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Fundamental orders of Connecticut

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Name the 4 middle colonies

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New York, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania

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Name the southern colonies

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Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

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What are the people from the Netherlands or Holland named?

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Dutch

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Who did the Dutch send to find a shortcut to Asia?

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Henry Hudson

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What is a chief commander in the navy called?

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Admiral

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A valuable blue dye

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Indigo

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Large farms found throughout the southern colonies

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Plantations

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What people claimed the southern part of New York

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Dutch

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What did Henry Hudson find instead of Asia?

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New York

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Who explored northern New York and claimed it for France?

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Samuel de Champlain

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Who was the Dutch governor of New Netherlands that finally surrendered to the British

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Peter Stuyvesant

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What two men gave New Jersey it’s name?

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Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley

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Religious group that settled in Pennsylvania

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Quakers

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Founder of Pennsylvania who carefully planned the city of Philadelphia

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William Penn

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Man who had the idea of settling Maryland as a refuge for Roman Catholics. Give both of his names.

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George Calvert (Lord Baltimore)

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Man who founded the colony of Georgia for prisoners and poor people from England

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James Oglethorpe

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Preacher who established the first orphanage in America

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George Whitfield

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Dutch name for New York City

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New Amsterdam

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Dutch name from New York

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New Netherland

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Swedish settlement that became Wilmington, Delaware

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Fort Christina

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Settlement that became the colony of Delaware

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New Sweden

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First settlement in Pennsylvania

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Chester

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City in Pennsylvania carefully designed by William Penn

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Philadelphia

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What does Philadelphia mean?

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City of brotherly love

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Name the the first settlement in Maryland

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St. Mary’s

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Name given to the area of land that became North and South Carolina

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Carolana

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First settlement in Carolana

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Charlestown

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First settlement in Georgia

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Savanna

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When did Henry Hudson sail to America for the Dutch

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1609

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When did the Quakers begin their settlement of Pennsylvania

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1681

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Which colony had a group of representatives called the house of Burgesses?

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Virginia

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What two ships brought the first settlers to Maryland

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Ark and Dove

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Whose idea was it to begin the colony of Maryland

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George Calvert

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