US History - Chp. 6 Flashcards
A chief commander in the Navy
Admiral
A valuable blue dye that was grown in South Carolina
Indigo
Large farms found throughout the southern colonies, especially in South Carolina
Plantations
People who live in the Netherlands; claim the southern part of New York. The British took several colonies from them
The Dutch
The Dutch explorer sent to find a shortcut to Asia; found New York instead and several other places
Henry Hudson
The man who explored northern New York and claimed it for France
Samuel de Champlain
The brave Dutch governor of New Netherland who finally surrendered to the British when his people refuse to fight them
Peter Stuyvesant
The men who gave New Jersey its name
Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley
The religious group that settled in Pennsylvania
The Quakers
The man who founded Pennsylvania and carefully planned the city of Philadelphia. He was a Quaker. His dad was an admiral in the British Navy.
William Penn
The man had the idea of settling Maryland as a refuge for Roman Catholics.
Lord Baltimore (George Calvert)
The man who founded the colony of Georgia for prisoners and poor people from England
James Oglethorpe
The preacher who established the first orphanage in America
George Whitefield
List the Middle Colonies
New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
List the Southern Colonies
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
The country in Europe, also called Holland where the Dutch are from
The Netherlands
What was the Dutch name for New York City
New Amsterdam
What was the Dutch name for New York
New Netherland
The Swedish settlement in Delaware that later became known as Wilmington when the British took the colony from the Dutch (remember that the Dutch took the colony from the Swedes)
Fort Christina
The name of the Swedish settlement that later became colony of Delaware
New Sweden
The name of the first settlement in Pennsylvania. It was named by Swedish settlers. This was before William Penn brought the Quakers over to settle this colony.
Chester
The name of the city in Pennsylvania carefully designed by William Penn; means”city of brotherly love”
Philadelphia
The name of the first settlement in Maryland
St. Mary’s
The name given to the area of land that became North and South Carolina
Carolana
The name of the first settlement in Carolana
Charles Town
The name of the first settlement in Georgia
Savannah
