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The biggest town in this colony was Boston |
Massachusetts |
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In this colony the Puritans were a religious group who wanted to "purify" the Church of England |
Massachusetts |
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The biggest town in this colony was Providence |
Rhode Island |
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This was the first colony to offer complete religious freedom |
Rhode island |
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This colony's land was given to an explorer named John Mason |
New Hampshire |
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This colony once became part of Massachusetts |
New Hampshire |
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Thomas Hooker was this colony's most famous settler |
Connecticut |
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The Fundamental Orders of this colony provided a good pattern for the Constitution of the United States |
Connecticut |
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This colony was claimed by three countries-Holland, England, France |
New York |
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New Amsterdam was renamed New York City and New Netherland was renamed New York. This information is about which colony? |
New York |
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The people in Sweden became the first country to successfully settle this colony |
Delaware |
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The people of this colony built a fort named "Fort Christina" to honor Sweden's young queen |
Delaware |
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The Dutch began the first permanent settlement in this colony |
New Jersey |
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Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley gave this colony its name |
New Jersey |
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The 1st settlement in this colony was named Chester |
Pennsylvania |
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William Penn named a city inside this colony called Philadelphia, which means "the city of brotherly love" |
Pennsylvania |
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Roanoke, "The Lost Colony," was the 1st English colony to fail in America |
Virginia |
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Jamestown became the 1st successful English colony in America |
Virginia |
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In this colony, George Calvert also known as Lord Baltimore, asked for land to begin his own colony |
Maryland |
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The founding of this colony was important because Catholics would be able to worship freely |
Maryland |
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This colony grew rice, cotton, and Indigo on large farms called plantations |
South Carolina |
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These 2 colonies were known as one large piece of land called Carolana |
North and South Carolina |
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This colony had fewer slaves than its "twin" colony because it grew slower |
North Carolina |
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James Oglethorpe became this colony's 1st governor |
Georgia |
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George Whitefield, the great preacher of colonial America, started the 1st orphanage in America in this colony |
Georgia |
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Name the 5 Great Lakes |
Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario |