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25 Cards in this Set
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Name the 13 original colonies:
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1. Connecticut
2. Delaware 3. Georgia 4. Maryland 5. Massachusetts 6. New Hampshire 7. New Jersey 8. New York 9. North Carolina 10.South Carolina 11.Pennsylvania 12.Rhode Island 13.Virginia |
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The northmost colonies of
_____,____,___ and ___ are known as the New England colonies. |
1.Connecticut
2.Massachusetts 3.New Hampshire 4.Rhode Island |
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The ____ were like the Separists who didn't agree with the Church of England, but wanted to purify the church.
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Puritans
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What was the obstacle for the Puritans to go to the New World?
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The Puritans needed a charter from the king to settle in the New World.
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The Puritans form the ___ ___ ____ in order to get a charter from the king.
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Massachusetts Bay Company
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The biggest town in the Massachusetts Bay Colony was called ______.
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Boston
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Plymouth joined the Massachusetts Bay Colony with Boston, and the colony would simply be called ____.
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Massachusetts
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Governor __ ___ was the governor of Massachusetts and was known as "______ ___" because he always spoke the truth.
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Governor John Winthrop
"Single Tongue" |
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From ____ to _____, more than 20,000 Puritans came to New England in the movement called the "___ ____".
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1630 to 1640
"Great Migration" |
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Governor John Winthrop described their colony as "a city upon a hill". why?
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Because the colony was an example of Christian society for the world.
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___ ___ was a Puritan minister who minister to the Indians of New England.
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John Eliot
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The Ole Deluder Satan Act directed all towns to do what?
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To hire a teacher to teach the children to read and write.
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What did the Ole Deluder Satan Act do?
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The act established the first public school system in America and recognized the importance of the Bible in schools.
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A _____ was a paddle shaped board that contained the alphabet and Lord's Prayer.
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hornbook
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The ___ __ ___ was the first book a child would read in New England.
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New England Primer
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In 1636, the Puritans founded the first college in the colonies, ____ ____.
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Harvard College
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______ ____ fled Massachusetts and started the state of Rhode Island with the first community being Providence.
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Roger Williams
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___ ___ helped found America's first Baptist church.
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Roger Williams
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__ ___ was the first colony to offer complete religious freedom.
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Rhode Island
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___ ____ founded New Hampshire.
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John Mason
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The Indian name for Connecticut was "___________".
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"Place of the Long River"
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____ ____ established the first major settle in Connecticut called ______.
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Thomas Hooke
Hartford |
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The first written constitution was the __ ___ ___ ___.
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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New England was full of ____.
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churches
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In the early colonial years, most of the churches were ____ churches, later called ______ churches.
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Puritan churches
Congregational churches |
