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37 Cards in this Set
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Name the 4 Middle colonies.
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New York
Delaware New Jersey Pennsylvania |
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State the 3 countries that all claimed
the colony of New York at the same time. |
England
the Netherlands France |
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The ________ are people who
live in the Netherlands. |
Dutch
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What country did Heny Hudson claim New York for?
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the Netherlands
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Who claimed New York for the Netherlands?
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Henry Hudson
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What country did Samuel de Champlain
claim New York for? |
France
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Who claimed New York for France?
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Samuel de Champlain
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What country did John Cabot claim
all of North America for? |
England
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Who claimed all of North
America for England? |
John Cabot
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Why did John Cabot's claim on
North America also claim New York for England? |
Because New York was a part
of North America. |
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Name the first Dutch (the
Netherlands) settlement in New York. |
Fort Orange
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What did the Dutch call the
city they built on Manhattan Island? |
New Amsterdam
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What did the Dutch name the
whole colony in the New York area? |
New Netherland
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Who was the governor of New
Netherland who refused to surrender to the British? |
Peter Stuyvesant
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What did the British rename
the VILLAGE of New Amsterdam after they took it from the Dutch? |
New York city
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What did the British rename
the COLONY of New Netherland after they took it from the Dutch? |
New York
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What country had the first
successful settlement in Delaware? What was it called? |
Sweden
New Sweden |
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What was the name of the fort
Sweden built to protect their first settlement in Delaware? |
Fort Christina
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What colony lay across the
Hudson river from New York? |
New Jersey
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When the British took New
Netherland from the Dutch, what two men gave New Jersey its name? |
George Carteret
John Berkeley |
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What was the name of the
FIRST settlement in Pennsylvania? |
Chester
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What famous son of an English
Admiral became a Quaker? |
William Penn
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What did the King of England
give William Penn to pay off the debt he owed Penn's father? |
land in America to begin a
colony for the Quakers |
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What did the king Of England
name the Quaker colony in America? |
Pennsylvania
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What does Pennsylvania mean?
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Penn's Woods
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What name did William Penn
give the beautiful second city that he carefully planned in Pennsylvania? |
Philadelphia
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What does Philadelphia mean?
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city of brotherly love
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What colony was founded in
America so the Catholics could find religious freedom? |
Maryland
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What did the new colonists
name their FIRST settlement in Maryland? |
St. Mary's
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What was the name of the
large piece of land that originally contained both North and South Carolina? |
Carolana
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What was the name of the King
of England who gave Carolana to 8 of his workers for a colony? |
King Charles II
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What was the name of the
FIRST village that was built in South Carolina? |
Charles Town
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What is the name of the
valuable blue die that came form a plant with the same name that was grown in South Carolina? |
indigo
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What colony was set up by
King George II of England to make a place where POOR people could go and work? |
Georgia
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Who was the first governor of Georgia?
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James Oglethorpe
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What was the name of the
first settlement in Georgia? |
Savannah
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Who was the great preacher
who set up the first orphanage in America near Savannah, Georgia? |
George Whitefield
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