History Test Part 3
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- owned by a private person
- proprietary colony
- a landowner who had certain privileges under the former Dutch government of New York
- patroon
- the law enacted in Maryland that allowed the colonists to have freedom of religion
- Toleration Act
- A colony that was owned by one man (or a small group of men) was known as
- a proprietary
- The first proprietary colony was
- Maryland
- Maryland was established as a refuge for
- English Catholics by George Calvert
- T or F Initially, settlers in Maryland could elect a representative assembly, but they could not draft legislation
- True
- T or F The feudal system Lord Baltimore set up for the landowners was a real incentive for settlers to come to the area
- False
- T or F Catholic settlers in Maryland outnumbered the Protestants in 1649.
- False
- The Dutch acquired "" Island for $"" in trinkets and beads
- Manhattan, 24
- New Netherland irritated the English because it was a center for
- illegal trade
- The chief occupation of the Dutch in New Netherland was
- fur-trading post
- The governor of New Netherland
- Stuyvesant
- New Netherland came under English rule in the year
- 1664
- Part of the land was given to Lord John Berkeley and renamed
- New Jersey
- In England, the Quakers were excluded from:
- government, military services, universities
- The Quakers purchased land in New Jersey from
- Berkley
- New Jersey was divided into two colonies
- East West Jersey
- T or F Eventually, New Jersey was reunited and remained a proprietary colony until the Revolutionary War.
- Flase
- T or F A series of riots by the settlers forced the owners of East Jersey and West Jersey to give up their lands
- True
- The most successful proprietary colony
- Pennsylvania
- The Quakers were also known by the name
- Society of Friends
- Pennsylvania was founded by
- Penn
- The capital of Pennsylvania is , which means the
- Philadelphia, City of Brotherly Love
- Other than the Quakers, the two groups of people that came to live in Pennsylvania were the:
- Scotch-Irish, Germans
- T or F The settlers in Pennsylvania were on constant alert for Indian attacks.
- False
- T or F Penn set down guidelines for the settlers to follow in their behavior toward the Indians.
- True
- Delaware was first settled by the , then by the
- Swedes, Dutch
- Delaware was purchased by William Penn to acquire a
- coastline
- Which colony was the last to own Delaware?
- Pennsylvania
- The founding of the Carolinas provided colonies for settlement between
- Virnignia and Florida
- The northern part of the Carolinas was settled by
- Virgina frontiersmen
- The town of Charles Towne was later renamed
- Charleston
- North and South Carolina became separate
- royal colonies
- Select the items that best describe the colony of South Carolina
- weathly Englishmen, lerge plantations, rice indigo, slaves,
- the colony of Noth Carolina
- Frontiermen, quakers, small farms, tabacco corn livestock, worked by owners
- last of the thirteen colonies to be founded.
- Georgia
- Georgia was founded by
- James Oglethorphe
- Oglethorpe's main reasons for founding Georgia
- Bufferzone "Spanish", safe haven for poorly treated Englishmen slaves
- The reasons for the population increase in the colonies between the years of 1700 and 1776 were
- larger families immigrants
- The major occupations of the colonists
- farming, fur trading, merchants, fishing, lumbering
- Ministers were replaced as leaders of public opinion by the
- colonial merchants
- Three groups of people who emigrated to America were
- Germans, Scotch-Irish, Huguenots
- Germans migrated to America because of:
- continual warfare, religious persecution, heavy taxation
- Scotch-Irish migrated to America because of:
- economic ruin, forbidden trading
- The French Huguenots migrated to America because they were being persecuted for
- faith in God
- The largest group of non-willing immigrants to America were taken from
- Africa
- T or F It was often difficult for people to better their position in colonial society
- False
- T or F Clothing often showed to which segment of society a person belonged
- True
- The upper classes in colonial America consisted of:
- planters and merchants
- The lower classes in colonial America consisted of:
- indentured servants, slaves
- The middle classes in colonial America consisted of:
- proffesional, artisans, farmers
- The ease with which the colonists could improve their social status depended upon
- transportation communication
- England became interested in colonies through the efforts of the geographer
- Hakylut
- Providence Plantation was founded in 1636 by
- Roger Williams
- Connecticut was founded in 1636 by
- Thomas Hooker
- Maryland was the first
- proprietary colony
- Maryland was established as a refuge for "", by""
- English Catholics by George Calvert
- The Quakers purchased land in "" from Berkeley
- Pennsylvania
- John Smith
- helped Virginia
- William Penn
- foundded Pennsylvania
- Roger Williams
- founded Rhose Island
- Thomas Hooker
- founded connecticut
- Duke of York
- founded New York
- Caverts
- founded Maryland
- James Oglethorpe
- founded Georgia
- William Bradford
- Plymouth