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Middle and Southern Colonies

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  • What fiery Dutch governor did not want to surrender to the British?
    Peter Stuyvesant
  • What three countries claimed New York?
    France, England and Netherlands
  • What explorer was hired to explore New York for the Dutch?
    Henry Hudson
  • Who settled New Jersey?
    The Dutch
  • Who explored northern New York for France?
    Samuel de Champlain
  • What is indigo?
    A blue dye
  • What was the first settlement of Pennsylvania?
    Chester
  • What is a plantation?
    Large farms
  • What was the first settlement in Carolana?
    Charles Town
  • What two first ships brought the first settlers to Maryland?
    Ark and Dove
  • What famous preacher went to Georgia to start America's first orphanage?
    George Whitefield
  • What was the first settlement in Georgia?
    Savannah
  • What man claimed all of North America for England?
    John Cabot
  • What did the Dutch call New York city?
    New Amsterdam
  • Whose idea was it to begin the colony of Maryland?
    George Calvert
  • What was the first settlement in Maryland?
    St. Mary's
  • What colony was founded by William Penn?
    Pennsylvania
  • Who founded Georgia?
    James Oglethorpe
  • What does Philadelphia means?
    The City of the Brotherly Love
  • Name the Middle Colonies
    New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
  • What was Delaware originally called?
    New Sweden
  • What colony was founded as a refuge for Catholics?
    Maryland
  • What kind of people settled Georgia?
    Poor people
  • Who gave New Jersey its name?
    Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley
  • Name the Southern Colonies
    Georgia, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina
  • Which colony had a group of representatives called the House of Burgesses?
    Virginia
  • Who settled Delaware?
    Sweden
  • What important city in Pennsylvania did he personally design?
    Philadelphia