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33 Cards in this Set
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What are the Middle Colonies? |
New York, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania |
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What are the Southern Colonies? |
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia |
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unusual colony that was claimed by three countries |
New York |
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What did Henry Hudson find? |
the southern part of New York that the Dutch claimed |
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Who found the northern part of New York? |
Samuel de Champlain- |
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The Dutch built a small village in what city in New York? |
Fort Orange |
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The Dutch bought Manhatten Island from the Indians and built a village there. What is the villlage now called? |
New Amsterdam |
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The Dutch named the whole colony _______? |
New Netherland |
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Dutch Govenor of New Netherland who finally surrendered to the British |
Peter Stuyvesant |
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The British changed a few names: New Amsterdam became _______? New Netherland became ________? |
New Amsterdam became New York City New Netherland became New York |
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A chief commander in the navy |
admiral |
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a valuable blue dye |
indigo |
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large farms found throughout the Southern Colonies |
plantations |
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people who lived in the Netherlands; claimed the Southern part of New York |
Dutch |
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Dutch explorer sent out to find a shortcut to Asia but instead found New York |
Henry Hudson |
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man who explored northern New York and claimed it for France |
Samuel de Champlain |
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Dutch governor of New Netherland who finally surrendered to the British |
Peter Stuyvesant |
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religious group that settled in Pennsylvania |
Quakers |
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founder of Pennsylvania who carefully planned the city of Philadelphia |
William Penn |
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man who founded the colony of Georgia for prisoners and poor people of England |
James Oglethorpe |
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preacher who established the first orphanage in America |
George Whitefield |
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the fort built to honor Sweden's young queen |
Fort Christina |
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the first successful settlement in Delaware |
Sweden |
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The Dutch began the first permanent settlement in New Jersey |
1660 |
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what does Pennsylvania mean? |
Penn's Woods |
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what does Philadelphia mean? |
the city of brotherly love |
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The people of _____________ colony was free to build and go to a Christian church of their choice? |
Maryland |
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Catholic man who worked as the King's secretary and was called Lord Baltimore? |
George Calvert |
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the ships were coming to the New World for ________? |
religious freedom |
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first settlement in Maryland? |
St. Mary's |
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The fouding of Maryland was important because |
it showed American Catholics would be able to worship freely |
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South Carolina's first permanent settlement |
Charlestown |
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the people who settled North Carolina were |
mostly poor and lived simple, hard working lives |
