Colonial Jeopardy

A Pot Luck 100 200 300 400 500 B Characteristics 100 200 300 400 500 C Colonies 100 200 300 400 500 D Documents 100 200 300 400 500

A100 Question: Protestants who wanted to leave and found their own churches were called ____? Answer: Separatists.

A200 Question: Who founded Rhode Island? Answer: Roger Williams

A300 Question: What law granted the right to worship freely in Maryland? Answer: The Act of Toleration.

A400 Question: Protestants who wanted to reform the Anglican church (Church of England) were called? Answer: Puritans

A500 Question: Why was Roger Williams kicked out of Massachusetts Bay Colony? Answer: He wanted separation of church and state. In other words, he didn’t want church leaders to run the community.

B100 Name three physical characteristics of the New England colonies. Answer: cold climate, poor soil, subsistence farming, Atlantic Ocean, forest

B200 Question: Which colonies were more tolerant? Answer: Middle Colonies

B300 Question: What social characteristic did all the colonies have in common? Answer: Small coastal towns

B400 Question: Which region of the colonies had town meetings and representative government? Answer: New England Colonies

B500 Question: What was the worst part of the passage of the triangular trade? Answer: Middle Passage

C100 Question: What was the first permanent English colony established in 1607? Answer: Jamestown, Virginia

C200 Question: Who founded Pennsylvania and why? Answer: William Penn, for the Quakers

C300 Question: Which colony was the first unsuccessful colony by the English? Answer: Roanoke Island

C400 Question: John Rolfe saved Jamestown with what crop? Answer: Tobacco

C500 Question: Which colony was founded for the Catholics in the British Colonies? Answer: Maryland

D100 Question: What was the first written constitution in the colonies? Answer: Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

D200 Question: What was signed in 1689 that gave English citizens basic rights? Answer: English Bill of Rights

D300 Question: What was the name of the social contract written and signed by men that set up self-government and majority rule? Answer: Mayflower Compact

D400 Question: What was signed in 1215 and limited the power of the king? Answer: Magna Carta

D500 Question: What was the first representative assembly in the American colonies? Answer: Virginia House of Burgesses