Test 1 Flashcards
Who settled Pennsylvania? How did he get the colony?
William Penn, King Charles II gave it to him to pay off a debt owed to the Penn family.
What religion was practiced by the people of Pennsylvania?
Quakers, Anglicans, Dutch Calvinists, German Lutherans, and many Christians who had been persecuted in England – including Presbyterians, Baptists, and Catholic
What nationalities settled in Pennsylvania?
While the earliest colonists to settle in what would become Pennsylvania were from Sweden, the Netherlands and Finland, colonists from England and later Germany would soon predominate following William Penn’s arrival in 1682.
List the Southern Colonies?
Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia
Who was the King of England at the time of the founding of Virginia?
King James the 1st
Who was “Lord Baltimore”?
An English politician.
Where was the capital of Virginia moved to after Jamestown?
Middle Plantation, five miles inland between the James and the York Rivers.
The “noxious weed” that was the primary “cash crop” in the colonies was?
Tobacco, also known as Spanish seeds
Why was Georgia originally settled?
As a refuge, a safe place, for the debtors who crowded London prisons.
What was the “Act of Toleration”?
The freedom to worship. For Protestants who dissented from the Church of England such as Baptists, Congregationalists or English Presbyterians, but not to Roman Catholics.
Who was Edward Teach?
Better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain’s North American colonies.
Where was Edward Teach’s demise?
Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, in a bloody battle with the British navy.
Why did pirates routinely use Albemarle Sound?
In 1586 the first European explorers sailed up the fifty-five-mile (89 km) length of the Albemarle Sound. Half a century later, the first European settlers came south from Virginia, establishing agricultural and trading colonies along the shores of the Sound.
When over 10,000 people settled in New England between 1620 & 1630 this was known as the what?
The Great Migration
What colony was split into two less than 50 years after receiving its charter?
The colony of Carolina. That’s why we now have a North and South Carolina!
