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The first successful English colony

Jamestown
Explorer who claimed part of North America for England

John Cabot
Ruler who allowed /sir Walter Raleigh to begin a colony at Roanoke Virginia

Queen Elizabeth
Colonist who said "He that will not work shall not eat"

John Smith
Governor of Roanoke who found the message "Croatoan" carved on a tree

John White
England defeated the _______ Armada in 1588

Spanish
Jamestown was founded in what year?

1607
The first place separatists moved when they left England was

Holland
The first written agreement of self-government in America

Mayflower Compact

The ships that brought settlers to Jamestown

Susan Constant, Godspeed, Discovery
The first governor of Jamestown

Lord De La Warr
Second governor of Plymouth; wrote Of Plymouth Plantation

William Bradford
the Indian who lived with the Pilgrims and helped the colony to survive

Squanto
The first Indian to welcome the Pilgrims

Samoset
founded first colony to offer complete religious freedom in America

Roger Williams
was hired to protect the Pilgrims at Plymouth

Captain Miles Standish
The name of the colony that is now the state of New York

New Netherland

The Dutch governor of New Netherland who was forced to surrender to the English

Peter Stuyvesant
The first written constitution in America

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
The year the Pilgrims established their colony at Plymouth

1620
The Ole' Deluder Satan Act established the first _______ in America

Public Schools
Colonial Virginia's elected body of representatives

House of Burgess
Georgia's first permanent settlement

Savannah
The first royal colony owned by the King of England

Virginia
South Carolina's first permanent settlement

Charleston
what town became the capital of Virginia in 1699?

Williamsburg
Lord Baltimore requested American land to begin this colony for English Catholics

Maryland
The Swedes who settled in Delaware were the first to build what kind of homes?

log cabins
Who were the Society of Friends?

Quakers
The man responsible for establishing a settlement at Philadelphia was

William Penn
Count von Zinzendorf was the leader of this group

Moravians
one of the first missionaries spurred by the Great Awakening

David Brainerd
the minister of colony at Plymouth
Elder Brewster
Conn. born preacher who was one of the first leaders in the Great Awakening; he preached a series of sermons about salvations

Jonathan Edwards
English evangelist who preached throughout the colonies; sometimes to 20k people at once

George Whitfield
America's first black woman writer to have a book published

Phyllis Wheatley
planned and directed the building of the first Georgian settlement

James Oglethorpe