Test 3 Study Guide

Question 1

this man founded Georgia

Answer 1

James Oglethorpe

Question 2

this man settled the city of Hartford, Connecticut

Answer 2

Thomas Hooker

Question 3

this man was hired by the Dutch to explore New York

Answer 3

Henry Hudson

Question 4

this man started America’s first orphanages

Answer 4

George Whitefield

Question 5

this man governed Massachusetts honestly and fairly

Answer 5

John Winthrop

Question 6

this man designed the main settlement in Pennsylvania

Answer 6

William Penn

Question 7

this man had the idea to begin the colony or Maryland

Answer 7

George Calvert

Question 8

this man went to England to get Rhode Island’s charter

Answer 8

John Clarke

Question 9

this colony’s name came from an Indian word

Answer 9

Connecticut

Question 10

poor people and prisoners settled this colony

Answer 10

Georgia

Question 11

this was a valuable blue dye produced in the Southern colonies

Answer 11

indigo

Question 12

the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut later served as a pattern for this important document

Answer 12

The Constitution

Question 13

this colony was claimed by three different countries

Answer 13

New York

Question 14

this colony’s charter guaranteed complete religious freedom

Answer 14

Rhode Island

Question 15

Pennsylvania was founded to be a refuge for what religious group?

Answer 15

Quakers

Question 16

largest city in Massachusetts

Answer 16

Boston

Question 17

largest city in Rhode Island

Answer 17

Providence

Question 18

changed its name to New York City

Answer 18

New Amsterdam

Question 19

“the city of brotherly love”

Answer 19

Philadelphia