1. Powerpoint Jeopardy 10 20 30 40 50 Early English Settlements
New England
Colonies
Middle
Southern
Reason
this Colony
was FOUNDED 10 20 30 40 50

2. Sir Walter Raleigh was given the right to claim land in North America by Queen Elizabeth. What was the name of that ‘Lost’ colony?
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3. Which European nation started colonization of North America after the Spanish Armada was defeated?
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4. What was the first permanent settlement in North America?

5. The ______________ Company was a joint-stock company
The ______________ Company was a joint-stock company. Which meant its investors bought stock in the company in return for a share of its future profits.

6. In 1619, representatives of the colony’s towns met to create laws for the colony. This group was known as the __________ ____ __________.

7. Religious Freedom was a major reason to settle in America. Pilgrims
were part of this group that wanted to leave and set up their own churches.

8. This formal document pledged loyalty to England
This formal document pledged loyalty to England. It also declared their intention of forming “a civil body politic,” obey laws passed, and was the initial step in developing a representative government.

9. This state or colony had the first documented constitution in America, called the “Fundamental Orders of ___________________.”

10. Roger ____________ was a minister
who was forced out of Massachusetts.
He felt that people should not be persecuted for their religious practices and that government should not force people to worship in a certain way.

11. of New England in this war?
The Wampanoag chief, Metacomet, and his allies fought against the people
of New England in this war?

12. People who refuse to use force or fight in wars are _______.

13. A colony in which the owner, or proprietor, owned all the land and controlled the government.

14. Most of the people that settled the New Amsterdam came from what country?

15. William Penn sailed to America in 1682
to supervise the building of __________,
the “city of brotherly love.”

16. Settlers in Pennsylvania did not have problems with the Native Americans like settlers in New England because the Pennsylvania settlers did this for the land, compared to the New
England settlers.

17. The Southern Colonies were made up of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and ___________.

18. _____________came to America upon the agreement to work without pay for a certain length of time.

19. Due to a feud between the
Calvert and Penn families,
The ______-______ line was
drawn to map the boundary
between Maryland and
Pennsylvania.

20. __________’s rebellion was caused by opposing the colonial government
because it was dominated by easterners and a pledge made to stay out of Native American territory.

21. These settlers paid their lord an annual rent and worked for him for a fixed number of days each year.

22. Rhode Island was founded
for religious freedom, expand
trade, or profit from trade?

23. New York was founded
for religious freedom, expand
trade, or profit from trade?

24. North Carolina was founded for religious freedom, expand
trade, or profit from trade and selling
land?

25. Massachusetts was founded
for religious freedom, expand
trade, or profit from trade?

26. Pennsylvania was founded on two
reasons which 2?
religious freedom, expand
trade, or profit from selling land?