Chapters 5-6 Flashcards
What did the Puritans want to do?
Purify or remove all the things that they thought were bad from the church of England
Name the four New England Colonies.
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire
What did the Puritans name their colony?
Massachusetts Bay colony
What was the biggest town in Massachusetts Bay colony?
Boston
Who was one of the most famous leaders of the Puritans?
Gov. John Winthrop
How many times was Gov. John Wynthrop elected governor?
12
Who were the only people that could vote in Massachusetts?
Puritans
Name the Baptist preacher that was arrested and beaten for preaching in Boston
Obadiah Holmes
What did Roger Williams name the land he bought from the Indians?
Providence
Why did people want to move to Roger Williams colony?
It offered religious freedom
What did Roger Williams name is Colony?
Rhode Island
Who did the people from Rhode Island send to England to get a charter?
Dr. John Clark
What was the first colony to offer complete religious freedom?
Rhode Island
Who founded Rhode Island?
Roger Williams
Who gave New Hampshire it’s name?
John Mason
What does Quinnehtukqut mean?
On or beside the river
What provided a good pattern for the Constitution of the United States?
Fundamental orders of Connecticut
Name the 4 middle colonies
New York, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania
Name the southern colonies
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
What are the people from the Netherlands or Holland named?
Dutch
Who did the Dutch send to find a shortcut to Asia?
Henry Hudson
What is a chief commander in the navy called?
Admiral
A valuable blue dye
Indigo
Large farms found throughout the southern colonies
Plantations
What people claimed the southern part of New York
Dutch
What did Henry Hudson find instead of Asia?
New York
Who explored northern New York and claimed it for France?
Samuel de Champlain
Who was the Dutch governor of New Netherlands that finally surrendered to the British
Peter Stuyvesant
What two men gave New Jersey it’s name?
Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley
Religious group that settled in Pennsylvania
Quakers
Founder of Pennsylvania who carefully planned the city of Philadelphia
William Penn
Man who had the idea of settling Maryland as a refuge for Roman Catholics. Give both of his names.
George Calvert (Lord Baltimore)
Man who founded the colony of Georgia for prisoners and poor people from England
James Oglethorpe
Preacher who established the first orphanage in America
George Whitfield
Dutch name for New York City
New Amsterdam
Dutch name from New York
New Netherland
Swedish settlement that became Wilmington, Delaware
Fort Christina
Settlement that became the colony of Delaware
New Sweden
First settlement in Pennsylvania
Chester
City in Pennsylvania carefully designed by William Penn
Philadelphia
What does Philadelphia mean?
City of brotherly love
Name the the first settlement in Maryland
St. Mary’s
Name given to the area of land that became North and South Carolina
Carolana
First settlement in Carolana
Charlestown
First settlement in Georgia
Savanna
When did Henry Hudson sail to America for the Dutch
1609
When did the Quakers begin their settlement of Pennsylvania
1681
Which colony had a group of representatives called the house of Burgesses?
Virginia
What two ships brought the first settlers to Maryland
Ark and Dove
Whose idea was it to begin the colony of Maryland
George Calvert
