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The first permanent European settlement in the New World |
St. Augustine |
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The colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh and remembered today as "The Lost Colony" |
Roanoke |
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England defeated the ___ Armada in 1588. |
Spanish |
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In ___, Jamestown was founded. |
1607 |
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The first place Separatist moved for religious freedom was |
Holland |
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The Pilgrims established their oclony at Plymouth in |
1620 |
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The first written agreement of self-government in America was the |
Mayflower Compact |
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The Ole' Deluder Satan Act was passed in 1647 in Massachusetts, establishing the first ___ in America |
public schools |
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The first written constiutioin in AMerica was the |
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
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Colonial Virginia's elected body of representatives was called the |
House of Burgesses |
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The ___ brought settlers to Jamestown |
Susan Constant, Godwpeed, and Discovery |
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The first Indian to welcome the Pilgrims was |
Samoset |
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Georgia's first permanent settlement |
Savannah |
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first royal colony owned by the King of England |
virginia |
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South Carolina's first permanent settlement |
Charleston |
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became the capital of Virginia in 1699 |
Williamsburg |
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Lord Baltimore requested American land to begin this colony for English Catholics |
Maryland |
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The Ark and the Dove brought settlers here for religious freedom |
Maryland |
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The name of the oclony that is now the state of New York was |
New Netherland |
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The Dutch governor of New Netherland who was forced to surrender to the English was |
Peter Stuyvesant |
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The Swedes who settled in Delaware were the first to build |
log cabins |
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The proper name for the Quakers was |
Society of Friends |
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The man responsible for establishing a settlement at Philadelphia was |
William Penn |
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Count von Zinzendorf was the leader of the ___, a group active in missionary work. |
Moravians |
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The Indian who lived with the Pilgrims and helped them to survive was |
Squanto |
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man who claimed part of North America for England in 1497 |
John Cabot |
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one of the first missionaries spurred by the Great Awakening |
David Brainerd |
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first governor of Jamestown |
Lord de La Warr |
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minister of colony at Plymouth |
Elder Brewster |
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second governor of Plymouth and te author of Of Plymouth Plantation |
William Bradford |
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foudned first colony to offer complete religious freedom in America |
Roger Williams |
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Connecticut-born preacher who was on of the first leaders in the Great Awakening; he preached a series of sermons about salvation |
Jonathan Edwards |
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English evangelist who preached throughout the colonies, sometimes to 20,000 people at once |
George Whitefield |
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America's first black woman writer to have a book published |
Phillis Wheatley |
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hired to protect the Pilgrims at Plymouth |
Captain Miles Standish |
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planned and directed the building of the first Georgian settlement |
James Oglethorpe |
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married Pocahontas |
John Rolfe |