american colonies

Question 1

Massachusetts Plymouth

Answer 1

escape religious persecution, establish Puritan commonwealth, william bradford, mayflower compact, joint stock company, royal colony, fishing, lumber, shipbuilding, triangular trade, rum, whaling

Question 2

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Answer 2

escape religious persecution, establish Puritan commonwealth, John Winthrop, joint stock company, royal colony, fishing, lumber, shipbuilding triangular trade, rum, whaling

Question 3

New Hampshire Exeter

Answer 3

profit from trade and fishing, escape religious persecution, bending Wentworth, John Wentworth, John Wheelwright, proprietary colony, joint stock company, royal colony, trade, fishing

Question 4

Connecticut

Answer 4

establish a Puritan settlement, establish a fur trade route, Thomas Hooker, self governing, corporate, triangular trade

Question 5

Rhode Island

Answer 5

escape religious intolerance of Massachusetts Bay, Roger Williams, self-governing, joint stock company, corporate, shipping, livestock, agriculture

Question 6

New York

Answer 6

expansion, trade, Peter Stuyvesant, James Duke of York, Richard Nicolls, Thomas Dongan, colony of Dutch West India Company, proprietary colony, royal colony, wheat, milling, lumbar, furs, sugar refining, distilling, ship building, trade

Question 7

Delaware

Answer 7

trade, Johan prints, Johan Rising, William Penn, proprietary colony, colony of Dutch West India Company, proprietary colony, royal colony, trade, farming

Question 8

New Jersey

Answer 8

expansion, trading post, refuge for Quakers from England, John Berkeley, John Carteret, colony of Dutch West India Company, proprietary colony, royal colony, trade, farming

Question 9

Pennsylvania

Answer 9

Swedish expansion, establish a Quaker colony, religious tolerance, William Penn, part of neighboring Swedish Dutch and English colonies, proprietary colony, royal colony, proprietary colony, trade, farming

Question 10

Virginia

Answer 10

search for gold, English outpost against Spain, John Smith, John Rolfe, Thomas Dale, joint stock company, Royal colony, tobacco

Question 11

Maryland

Answer 11

establish a Catholic settlement, escape religious persecution, Cecillius Calvert (Lord Baltimore), proprietary colony, royal colony, proprietary colony, tobacco

Question 12

North Carolina

Answer 12

land wealth, refuge for small farmers, strength and English possessions in the Americas, William Berkeley, Anthony Ashley – Cooper, John Locke, proprietary colony, royal colony, ship supplies, rice, indigo, tobacco

Question 13

South Carolina

Answer 13

land wealth, refuge for small farmers, strength and English possessions in the Americas, William Berkeley, Anthony Ashley – Cooper, John Locke, proprietary colony, royal colony, ship supplies, rice, indigo, tobacco

Question 14

Georgia

Answer 14

settlement for debtors, buffer Carolinas from Spanish Florida, James Oglethorpe, proprietary colony, royal colony, rice, indigo, ship supplies