US History - Chp. 6

Question 1

A chief commander in the Navy

Answer 1

Admiral

Question 2

A valuable blue dye that was grown in South Carolina

Answer 2

Indigo

Question 3

Large farms found throughout the southern colonies, especially in South Carolina

Answer 3

Plantations

Question 4

People who live in the Netherlands; claim the southern part of New York. The British took several colonies from them

Answer 4

The Dutch

Question 5

The Dutch explorer sent to find a shortcut to Asia; found New York instead and several other places

Answer 5

Henry Hudson

Question 6

The man who explored northern New York and claimed it for France

Answer 6

Samuel de Champlain

Question 7

The brave Dutch governor of New Netherland who finally surrendered to the British when his people refuse to fight them

Answer 7

Peter Stuyvesant

Question 8

The men who gave New Jersey its name

Answer 8

Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley

Question 9

The religious group that settled in Pennsylvania

Answer 9

The Quakers

Question 10

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.

Answer 10

William Penn

Question 11

The man had the idea of settling Maryland as a refuge for Roman Catholics.

Answer 11

Lord Baltimore (George Calvert)

Question 12

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

Answer 12

James Oglethorpe

Question 13

The preacher who established the first orphanage in America

Answer 13

George Whitefield

Question 14

List the Middle Colonies

Answer 14

New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania

Question 15

List the Southern Colonies

Answer 15

Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

Question 16

The country in Europe, also called Holland where the Dutch are from

Answer 16

The Netherlands

Question 17

What was the Dutch name for New York City

Answer 17

New Amsterdam

Question 18

What was the Dutch name for New York

Answer 18

New Netherland

Question 19

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)

Answer 19

Fort Christina

Question 20

The name of the Swedish settlement that later became colony of Delaware

Answer 20

New Sweden

Question 21

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.

Answer 21

Chester

Question 22

The name of the city in Pennsylvania carefully designed by William Penn; means”city of brotherly love”

Answer 22

Philadelphia

Question 23

The name of the first settlement in Maryland

Answer 23

St. Mary’s

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Carolana

Question 25

The name of the first settlement in Carolana

Answer 25

Charles Town

Question 26

The name of the first settlement in Georgia

Answer 26

Savannah