Chapters 5-6

Question 0

What did the Puritans want to do?

Answer 0

Purify or remove all the things that they thought were bad from the church of England

Question 1

Name the four New England Colonies.

Answer 1

Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire

Question 2

What did the Puritans name their colony?

Answer 2

Massachusetts Bay colony

Question 3

What was the biggest town in Massachusetts Bay colony?

Answer 3

Boston

Question 4

Who was one of the most famous leaders of the Puritans?

Answer 4

Gov. John Winthrop

Question 5

How many times was Gov. John Wynthrop elected governor?

Answer 5

12

Question 6

Who were the only people that could vote in Massachusetts?

Answer 6

Puritans

Question 7

Name the Baptist preacher that was arrested and beaten for preaching in Boston

Answer 7

Obadiah Holmes

Question 8

What did Roger Williams name the land he bought from the Indians?

Answer 8

Providence

Question 9

Why did people want to move to Roger Williams colony?

Answer 9

It offered religious freedom

Question 10

What did Roger Williams name is Colony?

Answer 10

Rhode Island

Question 11

Who did the people from Rhode Island send to England to get a charter?

Answer 11

Dr. John Clark

Question 12

What was the first colony to offer complete religious freedom?

Answer 12

Rhode Island

Question 13

Who founded Rhode Island?

Answer 13

Roger Williams

Question 14

Who gave New Hampshire it’s name?

Answer 14

John Mason

Question 15

What does Quinnehtukqut mean?

Answer 15

On or beside the river

Question 16

What provided a good pattern for the Constitution of the United States?

Answer 16

Fundamental orders of Connecticut

Question 17

Name the 4 middle colonies

Answer 17

New York, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania

Question 18

Name the southern colonies

Answer 18

Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

Question 19

What are the people from the Netherlands or Holland named?

Answer 19

Dutch

Question 20

Who did the Dutch send to find a shortcut to Asia?

Answer 20

Henry Hudson

Question 21

What is a chief commander in the navy called?

Answer 21

Admiral

Question 22

A valuable blue dye

Answer 22

Indigo

Question 23

Large farms found throughout the southern colonies

Answer 23

Plantations

Question 24

What people claimed the southern part of New York

Answer 24

Dutch

Question 25

What did Henry Hudson find instead of Asia?

Answer 25

New York

Question 26

Who explored northern New York and claimed it for France?

Answer 26

Samuel de Champlain

Question 27

Who was the Dutch governor of New Netherlands that finally surrendered to the British

Answer 27

Peter Stuyvesant

Question 28

What two men gave New Jersey it's name?

Answer 28

Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley

Question 29

Religious group that settled in Pennsylvania

Answer 29

Quakers

Question 30

Founder of Pennsylvania who carefully planned the city of Philadelphia

Answer 30

William Penn

Question 31

Man who had the idea of settling Maryland as a refuge for Roman Catholics. Give both of his names.

Answer 31

George Calvert (Lord Baltimore)

Question 32

Man who founded the colony of Georgia for prisoners and poor people from England

Answer 32

James Oglethorpe

Question 33

Preacher who established the first orphanage in America

Answer 33

George Whitfield

Question 34

Dutch name for New York City

Answer 34

New Amsterdam

Question 35

Dutch name from New York

Answer 35

New Netherland

Question 36

Swedish settlement that became Wilmington, Delaware

Answer 36

Fort Christina

Question 37

Settlement that became the colony of Delaware

Answer 37

New Sweden

Question 38

First settlement in Pennsylvania

Answer 38

Chester

Question 39

City in Pennsylvania carefully designed by William Penn

Answer 39

Philadelphia

Question 40

What does Philadelphia mean?

Answer 40

City of brotherly love

Question 41

Name the the first settlement in Maryland

Answer 41

St. Mary's

Question 42

Name given to the area of land that became North and South Carolina

Answer 42

Carolana

Question 43

First settlement in Carolana

Answer 43

Charlestown

Question 44

First settlement in Georgia

Answer 44

Savanna

Question 45

When did Henry Hudson sail to America for the Dutch

Answer 45

1609

Question 46

When did the Quakers begin their settlement of Pennsylvania

Answer 46

1681

Question 47

Which colony had a group of representatives called the house of Burgesses?

Answer 47

Virginia

Question 48

What two ships brought the first settlers to Maryland

Answer 48

Ark and Dove

Question 49

Whose idea was it to begin the colony of Maryland

Answer 49

George Calvert