8Th Fowler American History Chapter 2 2.5

Front 1

Name the five southern colonies:
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2
3
4
5

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1.Virginia
2. North Carolina
3. South Carolina
4. Maryland
5. Georgia

Front 2

The first permanent settlement in Viriginia was ____.

Back 2

Jamestown

Front 3

_____ became the major crop in Virginia as John Rolfe began growing it.

Back 3

Tobacco

Front 4

_____ became the capital of Virginia when a fire destroyed much of Jamestown.

Back 4

Williamsburg

Front 5

King Charles I gave the land of _______ to George Calvert as a gift.

Back 5

Maryland

Front 6

George Calvert was also known as ___ ___.

Back 6

Lord Calvert

Front 7

George Calvert's son, __ ___, came to America and founded the town of _______ ______.

Back 7

Lord Baltimore

St. Marys

Front 8

The __ __ ___ written in 1649, was the first written law of religious freedom in the colonies.

Back 8

Act of Toleration

Front 9

Eight English noblemen were given land in America, which would become the ______.

Back 9

Carolinas

Front 10

The first settlement in the Carolinas was __ ___.

Back 10

Albemarle Point

Front 11

The city of _____ became an important harbor and commercial center.

Back 11

Charleston, S.C.
(Charles Towne)

Front 12

The Carolinas were divided in ___.

Back 12

1712

Front 13

The two most important crops in S.C. were:
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2

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1. rice
2. indigo

Front 14

____ is a plant from which blue dye could be made.

Back 14

Indigo

Front 15

____ was the last of the 13 colonies to be settled.

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Georgia

Front 16

___ _____ asked permission to settle a colony for debtors.

Back 16

James Oglethorpe

Front 17

The first city settled in Georgia was ____.

Back 17

Savannah

Front 18

What were the two reasons for founding Georgia?
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2

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1. a place for debtors
2. to be a buffer between the existing colonies and the Spanish colonies in Florida