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Question Known as the “Lost Colony”

Answer 1 – 10 Roanoke

Question Why was Massachusetts colony founded?

Answer 1 – 20 For religious freedom for the Puritans and Separatists

Question This colony was founded by Lord Baltimore and colonist receive more land with the more people they brought with them

Answer 1 – 30 Maryland

Question Founded by James Oglethorpe to give England’s debtors a place to start over. It was also a barrier between the Spanish and the colonies

Answer 1 – 40 Georgia

Question Who was the group of Native Americans the Connecticut colonists did not get along with?

Answer 1 – 50 Pequot Tribe

Question Most of these colonies made their living by using what natural resource?

Answer 2 – 10 The sea/ocean

Question Mostly used this type of farming because of the bad soil

Answer 2 – 20 Subsistence Farming

Question Sent their children to these types of schools to learn the bible and the alphabet

Answer 2 – 30 Dame Schools

Question Where did most people live in the New England colonies?

Answer 2 – 40 In an urban setting

Question What is the difference between the Puritans and the Separatists?

Answer 2 – 50 Puritan- Wanted to “purify” or change the Church of England Separatist- Wanted to “separate” themselves from the Church of England by leaving it

Question What is the nickname given to the middle colonies?

Answer 3 – 10 The “Breadbasket Colonies”

Question What mode of transportation was invented in Pennsylvania?

Answer 3 – 20 Conestoga Wagon

Question Name two foods made in the middle colonies

Answer 3 – 30 Waffles (Dutch) Noodles (German) Pretzels (German)

Question Describe schooling in the middle colonies

Answer 3 – 40 Went to school until the age of 13 and then became and apprentice

Question What is the difference between religious freedom on the New England and Middle Colonies

Answer 3 – 50 New England- Still discriminated against other religious Middle- PA – all religions welcome MD – all Christian religions welcome

Question Why did just about all of the colonists live a rural lifestyle?

Answer 4 – 10 Plantations took up a lot of land

Question Who ran plantations?

Answer 4 – 20 African slaves

Question What was the cash crop of Jamestown?

Answer 4 – 30 Tobacco

Question What two foods did the rivers near Maryland provide?

Answer 4 – 40 Crabs Oysters Fish

Question Describe the Middle Passage

Answer 4 – 50 Cramped Little food/water Chained together Many deaths Taken by other African tribes

Question Group of people who mostly settled New York (Called it New Amsterdam)

Answer 5 – 10 The Dutch

Question A colony whose cash crop was growing indigo and raising cattle

Answer 5 – 20 South Carolina

Question Berkeley and Carteret were given this land by the Duke of York. They planned to sell the land for money.

Answer 5 – 30 New Jersey

Question Colony where Thomas Hooker created the first American constitution

Answer 5 – 40 Connecticut

Question Name 3 characteristics of the Quakers’ beliefs

Answer 5 – 50 No war Equal rights for women Religious freedom No slavery You could personally talk to God