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The route taken from England, to the 13 colonies, to Africa or the West Indies was called. . .
Answer: The triangular trade route
A person brought against their will from Africa to work in the colonies for be sold as property. . .
Answer: a slave
This means “Penn’s Woods”. . .
Answer: Pennsylvania
This means “City of Brotherly Love”. . . .
Answer: Philadelphia
Someone who worked for free for several years in exchange for passage to the colonies. . .
Answer: Indentured servant
He brought the first group of Puritans to the Massachusetts Bay colony.
Answer: John Endecott
She made indigo a major cash crop in the Southern colonies
Answer: Eliza Lucas Pinckney
He founded Connecticut and wrote The Fundamental Orders
Answer: Thomas Hooker
He was a colonial minister who believed that power should be with the people (colonists)
Answer: John Wise
He opened the first library, fire department, and insurance company in the colonies.
Answer: Benjamin Franklin
Why was the Massachusetts Bay Colony founded?
Answer: so the Puritans could practice their religion more purely
The last English colony was founded to make $ and give debtors a way out of jail
Answer: Georgia
This colony, named after an English Queen, was a refuge for Catholic people
Answer: Maryland
Two exiled people from Massachusetts Bay founded this colony to have religious freedom and make $
Answer: Rhode Island
These colonies expanded the English empire These colonies expanded the English empire. It was no trouble taking it from the Dutch.
Answer: New York and New Jersey
He saved the Jamestown colonists from starvation and was almost executed by Powhatan.
Answer: John Smith
They founded the Rhode Island Colony
Answer: Ann Hutchinson and Roger Williams
This family started the colony of Maryland.
Answer: The Calverts
The king of England owed his family a debt, so they made him the proprietor of Pennsylvania.
Answer: William Penn
He was a Native American who dressed like an Englishman He was a Native American who dressed like an Englishman. He started “King Philip’s War” against the colonists.
Answer: Metacomet
In 1754, the English fought against the French, and their allies, the ________________
Answer: Indians (Native Americans)
Our nation’s first president, he was a hero for the English during the French and Indian War.
Answer: George Washington
He was the British General whose troops were defeated early in the war.
Answer: General Braddock
This was the name of the land the English and French were fighting over.
Answer: The Ohio River Valley
The Ohio River Valley belonged to _______ after the war.
Answer: The English/British
Final Jeopardy Make your wager
Which natural resource in the Virginia colonies made its colonists very wealthy? (hint: It is bad for your health.)
Answer: tobacco