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37 Cards in this Set
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A chief commander in the navy |
Admiral
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A valuable blue dye
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Indigo
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Large farms found throughout the southern colonies
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Plantations
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People who live in the Netherlands and claimed the southern part of New York
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Dutch
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Dutch explorer sent to find a shortcut through Aisa and found New York instead
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Henry Hudson
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Man who explored northern New York and claimed it for France
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Samuel da Champlain
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Dutch governor of New Netherland who finally surrendered to the British
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Peter Stuyvesant
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Men who gave New Jersey its name
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Sir George Carteret And Lord John Berkeley
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Religious group that settled in Pennsylvania
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Quakers
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Founder of Pensylvania who carefully planned the city of Philadelphia
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William Pen
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Man who had the idea of settling Maryland as a refuge for Roman Catholics
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George Calvert
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Man who founded the colony of Georgia for prisoners and poor people from England
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James Oglethorpe
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Preacher who established the first orphanage in America
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George Whitefield
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New York, Delaware,New Jersey,and Pennsylvania
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Middle colonies
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Virginia,Maryland,North Carolina,South Carolina,and Georgia
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Southern Colonies
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Country in Europe also called Holland
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The Netherlands
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Dutch name for New York City
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New Amsterdam
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Dutch name for Nee York
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New Netherland
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Swedish settlement that became Wilmington,Delaware
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Fort Christina
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Settlement that became the colony of Delaware
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New Sweeden
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First settlement in Pensylvania
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Chester |
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City in Pennsylvania carefully designed by William Penn |
Philadelphia |
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What does Philadelphia mean? |
city of brotherly love |
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First settlement in Maryland |
St. Mary's |
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Name given to the area of land that became North and South Carolina |
Carolana |
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First settlement in Carolana |
Charles Town |
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First settlement in Georgia |
Savannah |
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Year Henry Hudson sailed to America for the Dutch |
1609 |
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The year Quakers began their settlement of Pennsylvia |
1681 |
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In _____ the Dutch began the first permanent settlement in New Jersey. |
1660 |
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The duke of York in turn gave New Jersey to two of his friends,_______ and _________. |
Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley |
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What does Pennsylvania meant? |
Penn's woods |
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In 1681, ______________ sent a group of settlers to choose a good place to build a town. |
William Penn |
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What was the name of the valuable blue dye produced in South Carolina? |
indigo |
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What were the large farms in the Southern Colonies called? |
plantations |
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What colony was intended to be a refuge for Catholics? |
Maryland |
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Pennsylvania was founded to be a refuge for what religious group? |
Quakers |