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Colonial America Flashcards

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What cash crop was introduced by the Powhatan and grown by John Rolfe?

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Tobacco

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What strict religious group settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

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Puritans

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What colony was established by those from debtor prisons?

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Georgia

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What colony was started for economic reasons by a former knight and pirate?

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Roanoke

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What city became the largest port and ecenter of radical thought?

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Boston

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What holiday was created by Native Americans feeding the Pilgrims?

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Thanksgiving

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What colony did the Pilgrims settle?

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Plymouth

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Jamestown imported the first ______ to work the fields.

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slaves

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What colonial region had rocky soil, cold winters, and manufacturing?

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New England

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Who was given orders by Queen Elizabeth to found an economic colony?

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Walter Raleigh

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The Roanoke Colony vanished, and has been known since as the ___________.

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Lost Colony

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What did most settlers in the northern colonies arrive for?

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Religious Freedom

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What was the first legal agreement of the English settlers?

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The Mayflower Compact

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What colony in the south was founded by the English company?

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Jamestown

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Who forcibly led the people of Jamestown and made them survive?

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John Smith

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What colony was formed to settle a debt and for religious freedom?

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Pennsylvania

17
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Who married Pocahontas, the daughter of Chief Powhatan?

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John Rolfe

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What religious group mainly settled in the Pennsylvania Colony?

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Quakers

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Who was the Pennsylvania Colony named after?

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William Penn

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What states did the Middle colonies consist of?

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Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware

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What states did the Northern colonies consist of?

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New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut

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What states did the Southern colonies consist of?

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Maryland, Virgina, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

23
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Who granted a charter to the Virginia Company to civilize America?

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King James l

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What was the House of Burgesses?

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Made so colonists could make their own laws

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