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51 Cards in this Set
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Dutch settlement that today is New York city |
New Amsterdam |
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Dutch colony that today is New York |
New Netherland |
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City in Delaware founded by the Swedes |
New Sweden |
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Study buildings built by the Swedish settlers in the forests of their Scandinavian homeland |
Log cabin |
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What religious group did William Penn belong to? |
Society of friends, most people called the members Quakers |
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Colony founded by William Penn |
Pennsylvania |
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City founded by William Penn |
Philadelphia |
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Notable group of Germans who came to Pennsylvania in 1740 |
The Moravians |
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The two men to whom the king of England gave New Jersey |
Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley |
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A colony owned by the king of England |
Royal colony |
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Married Pocahontas, introduced tobacco from the west Indies to the colonies |
John Rolfe |
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Elected body represented the colonists by advising the governor of the colony on taxes, laws, and other civil issues |
House of Burgesses |
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The Catholic man who asked the king of England for land in America for a colony where Catholics and others would be free to worship |
George Calvert |
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Two small ships that set sail from England with about 200 passengers who were coming to the new world for religious freedom |
The Ark and the Dove |
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South Carolina's first permanent settlement |
Charlestown |
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Why was the founding of Maryland important |
It showed that in America Catholics would be able to worship freely |
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The brave and kind leader of English settlers in Georgia |
James Oglethorpe |
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The first settlement of Georgia planned by James Oglethorpe |
Savannah |
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The founder of the first orphanage in the English colonies |
George Whitefield |
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Spiritual revival that took place in the colonies from the 1730s to the 1760s |
The great awakening |
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One of the first leaders in the great awakening who led many to Christ |
Jonathon Edwards |
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English evangelist famous for traveling through the colonies, preaching at large open-air meetings during the 1700s |
George Whitefield |
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First black woman writer in America to have a book published |
Phillis wheatley |
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One of the first missionaries spurred by the great awakening to do great things for God |
David Brainerd |
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the first permanent European settlement |
St Augustine, Florida |
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the first European to reach what is now the mainland of the US |
Juan Ponce de Leon |
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claimed part of North America for England in 1497 |
John Cabot |
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the person for whom Virginia was named |
Queen Elizabeth |
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British explorer who sent colonists to Virginia |
Sir Walter Raleigh |
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first English child to be born in America |
Virginia Dare |
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the name of what is now known as the "lost colony" |
Roanoke |
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the year Jamestown was established |
1607 |
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the first permanent English settlement |
Jamestown |
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the name of the powerful Spanish fleet the British defeated during the war with Catholic Spain |
The Spanish Armada |
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the year the Mayflower came to Massachusetts |
1620 |
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the name of the pilgrims colony |
Plymouth |
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first written agreement for self government in America |
Mayflower Compact |
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American Indian who lived with the pilgrims and helped them |
Squanto |
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took control of Jamestown; widely made a new rule saying " he that will not work shall not eat" |
Captain John Smith |
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first Indian to welcome the pilgrims |
Samoset |
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military leader of Plymouth |
Captain Miles Standish |
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3 ships that brought settlers to Jamestown |
Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery |
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company formed by a group of Puritan businessmen and the king, who granted the group a charter for land in America |
Massachusetts Bay Company |
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famous governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony who the American Indians called "Single Tongue" the phrase the governor used to describe the Puritans' colony |
John Winthrop |
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the first college founded in the colonies by the Puritans to train ministers |
Harvard College |
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the colony founded by Roger Williams and the first colony to offer complete religious freedom |
Rhode Island |
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the first written constitution in America |
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut |
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the first major settlement in Conneticut |
Hartford |
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paddle-shaped board with a sheet of paper attached to it containing the alphabet and the Lord's prayer |
hornbook |
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reading textbook used by millions of American children for over 150 years |
New England Primer |
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act that established the first public school system by directing every town that had at least 50 households to hire a teacher for their children |
Ole Deluder Satan Act |
