In 1607 the Virginia Company of London sent colonists to build Jamestown. What did the company's investors mainly hope the colony would do?

Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia are grouped together as which of the three colonial regions?

The colonists who settled Plymouth in 1620 had separated from the Church of England. What was their main reason for crossing the Atlantic?

Before going ashore in 1620, the men aboard the Mayflower signed the Mayflower Compact. What did that document do?

Jamestown, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, and Rhode Island were all early English settlements. Which one did colonists settle first?

Which colony did William Bradford help start in 1620 and then lead as governor for many years?

About a thousand Puritans sailed with John Winthrop in 1630 and brought their charter with them. Which New England colony did they begin?

Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts Bay in the 1630s for saying leaders had no right to rule over religion. What did he do next?

Rhode Island's founders bought their land from the Narragansett. Which idea was that colony built on?

King Charles II granted William Penn a charter in 1681 for the land that became Pennsylvania. Which religious group did Penn belong to and invite to settle there?

Pennsylvania's first laws promised settlers they would not be punished for worshipping outside the Church of England.

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware together make up which colonial region?

Pennsylvania was a proprietary colony. What does that tell you about how it was governed?

Connecticut's colonists elected their own governor and made their own laws under a grant from the king, with no single owner. What type of colony was it?

In 1619 Virginia's colonists began electing men to the House of Burgesses to help make the colony's laws. What kind of government did that create?

In many New England towns, colonists gathered to vote on local matters such as roads, fences, and paying the minister. What was this gathering called?

James Oglethorpe landed with colonists in 1733 to begin Georgia. Besides offering a fresh start to people jailed for debt, what did Britain want the colony to do?

Maryland was granted in 1632 to Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore, who wanted a safe home for a group facing punishment for its faith in England. Which group was that?

New Netherland was started along the Hudson River by the Dutch. What happened to that colony in 1664?

Southern Colony planters grew tobacco and rice mainly to sell in England and other colonies, not to feed their own families. What term describes a crop grown mainly to be sold rather than used at home?

Which colonial region had rocky soil, cold winters, and an economy based partly on fishing, shipbuilding, and trade?

Why were the Middle Colonies often called the “breadbasket”?

Which cash crop was most important to the economy of colonial Virginia?

The Pilgrims had permission to settle on Virginia Company land, but the Mayflower landed far to the north at Cape Cod. Why did that make the Mayflower Compact necessary?

A colony's royal governor could veto, or reject, laws that its elected assembly passed.

Who founded Pennsylvania as a colony known for Quaker beliefs and religious tolerance?

One colony was created when the Duke of York granted its land to two proprietors, John Berkeley and George Carteret, who offered settlers religious freedom and inexpensive land. Which colony was this?

Which three regions did the triangular trade connect through its trade routes, including the forced transport of enslaved Africans?

Which colonial region depended most on large plantations and enslaved labor?

Why did many colonists in New England build towns with meetinghouses?

Which colony was founded by James Oglethorpe partly as a place for debtors and as a buffer against Spanish Florida?

Thomas Hooker led a group of settlers out of Massachusetts Bay to start Connecticut.

Which phrase best describes the Middle Colonies?

What did colonial assemblies usually do?

Which group usually held the most political rights and power in the English colonies?

Virginia became a royal colony in 1624. What does that tell you about how it was governed?

Why did European colonists often settle near rivers and the Atlantic coast?

British trade policy expected the colonies to trade mainly with Britain and help make the mother country wealthier.

When the English founded Jamestown in 1607, which group had already lived in North America for thousands of years?

In 1619 the first recorded Africans in English Virginia were brought there by force on an English ship. At which Virginia landing place did they arrive?