Social Studies Colonies
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- Who was Maryland named after?
- The Kings wife Maria
- Who was given the charter for Georgia?
- James Oglethorpe
- Influence
- Ability people or things have to affect other people or things
- What was the name of the port and city that was most important to SC?
- Charles Towne
- Name the place where anyone could worship as they pleased
- Pennsylvania
- Who settled Georgia?
- Prisoners
- Today Charles Towne is called?
- Charleston
- Burgess
- A representative who speaks for others
- Frontier
- The land beyond the settlements
- Who made indigo a cash crop?
- Eliza Lucas
- Name one cash crop
- tobacco
- Which four states made up the "Bread Basket" of the colonies?
- New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Penn.
- Why were the settlers mad at the Quakers?
- They refused to help fight the Indians
- There were many wars with who over land and fishing rights?
- Indians
- People who were in prison for owing money came to ________ to work off debts
- Georgia
- Debtor means?
- People who owe money
- Cash Crop
- A crop that people raise to sell to others rather than to use themselves.
- Frame of Government
- Pa's government said people had freedom of speech, worship and a trial by jury
- The Dutch colony was called?
- New Netherland
- Why did the Dutch people refuse to fight the English?
- Disliked Stuyvesant
- Refuse
- A safe place
- Which church did you have to go to in England?
- Church of England
- Who was the proprietor of Pennsylvania?
- William Penn
- Why were some states called Breadbasket colonies?
- They raised so much wheat.
- How was Pennsylvania set up
- As a trading posts
- What was Carolinas main crop?
- Rice
- Stoop
- A wide, high doorstep
- The Lord proprietor of Maryland was?
- Lord Baltimore
- When the English won the wars with the Indians what happened?
- Indians were forced to leave the colonies
- The Calverts were families of wealthy business people. Why did they come to America?
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1. To Make money
2. Refuge for Catholics - What state was founded by the Calverts?
- Maryland
- Who settled Pennsylvania?
- Quakers or Society of Friends
- Who felt that violence was wrong and refused to carry a gun or fight?
- Quakers
- John Rolfe
- Was the first to bring tobacco to the colonies
- Virginia
- 1st permanent English colony in North America
- What is Indigo?
- Plants from which blue dye in made. Grown in SC
- How were roads made?
- Widening trails
- The Carolinas were ruled by 8 proprietors appointed by?
- King Charles
- House of Burgess
- Made up of wealthy men who grew tobacco
- Philadelphia
- Pa. most important city
- What is New Amsterdam today?
- New York
- Who wrote Poor Richard's Almanac?
- Benjamin Franklin
- What were the only ways to travel in colonial times?
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1. boat
2. horseback
3. foot - What did Benjamin Franklin own?
- A Print Shop in Philadelphia
- South Carolina had _______ farms
- Large
- North Carolina had ________ farms
- small
- Immigrants
- People who came to live in a country from another country
- What does Pennsylvania mean
- "Penn's Woods"
- General Assembly
- Council or group oooooof men who made laws
- What are Naval stores?
- Products made from pine tar used in building ships
- Huguenots are
- French Protestants