Colonial Regions | Colonial Settlers | Famous Colonial Documents | Women and Africans of the Colonies | Primary or Secondary Source |
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What is the New England Colonies
This region of colonies includes the northern most colonies, including New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
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What is Massachusetts
The Pilgrims colonized this New England colony for religious freedom
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What is the Mayflower Compact
This document, created by the Pilgrims, created laws for the colonists for the good of their new colony
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Who is Pocahontas
This Native American woman helped John Smith and the colony of Virginia by bringing them food
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What is Primary
A letter written by a soldier during World War I
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What is the Southern Colonies
This region of colonies had the warmest weather and was best suited for the plantation style farms.
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What is Delaware
The Swedes founded this colony in 1638 for economic reasons, until the English gained control of it.
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What is the House of Burgesses
This house was the first legislature anywhere in the English colonies in America
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Who is Anne Hutchinson
This woman was banished from her colony for conducting Bible studies and going against Puritan religious ideas
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What is secondary
Your textbook
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What is the New England Colonies
This region of colonies became famous for its dependence on whaling
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What is Georgia
This was the southern most English colony was established as a colony for former prisoners and it bordered a Spanish colony
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What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
This was the first written constitutional document of America and was made to form a unified government for the colonies of the Connecticut area
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What is the Stono Rebellion
This rebellion of African slaves in South Carolina, lead by Jemmy, resulted in stricter rules being imposed on slaves, including not allowing them to read.
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What is primary
A photograph of the Vietnam War
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What is the Middle
New York was a part of the colonies called the ________ colonies
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What is New York
This colony was founded as New Netherland by the Dutch for economic reasons, before being renamed by the English
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What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
This document stated that people had the right to elect governors, judges, and a legislature, establishing the idea of self rule in the colonies.
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Who is Eliza Lucas Pinckney
This woman is credited with developing indigo as a cash crop
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What is primary
A journal written by Benjamin Franklin
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What is the Southern Colonies
These colonies became known for having a large population of enslaved Africans for farming
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What is Pennsylvania
This colony founded in 1682 was founded by William Penn as a place of religious freedom for the Quakers
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Who is Locke, Hobbes, and Montesquieu
The Enlightenment thinkers who helped establish the idea of social contracts and self-governance in the colonies
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What is Massachusetts
Which colony did Anne Hutchinson get exiled from?
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What is secondary
An essay on the Revolutionary War written by a famous historian in 1998
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