Penn.Del.&MaryVirginiaN&S Caro.Georgia

Question Name the of the Founders of Pennsylvania

Answer 1 – 10 William Penn

Question Why was Pennsylvania founded?

Answer 1 – 20 Religious Freedom for the Quakers

Question What were a couple of characteristics of the Quaker religion.

Answer 1 – 30 They didn’t believe in war and refused to fight They believed in tolerance of all people and their beliefs

Question How did Pennsylvania get it’s name?

Answer 1 – 40 Penn from William Penn Sylvania …meaning the woods or heavily wooded

Question If King Charles II didn’t like the Quakers, why did he let William Penn go there and form a colony?

Answer 1 – 50 William Penn’s father had loaned the King money in the past. Penn was a friend of the King. By letting the Quakers go to America, the King was “getting them out of his hair” in England.

Question Who was Delaware founded by?

Answer 2 – 10 Swedish Settlers

Question Who founded Maryland?

Answer 2 – 20 Lord Baltimore and Son.

Question True or false: Delaware was founded for economic reasons.

Answer 2 – 30 True

Question Maryland was one of the first colonies to be settled by which major religion in Europe.

Answer 2 – 40 Catholics

Question What was the real last name of Lord Baltimore and his Son?

Answer 2 – 50 Calvert

Question Who founded Virginia?

Answer 3 – 10 John Smith

Question Why was Virginia settled?

Answer 3 – 20 For economic reasons… hoped to find Gold

Question What became Virginia’s most important source of income?

Answer 3 – 30 Tobbacco

Question What were some reasons Jamestown almost did not succeed?

Answer 3 – 40 Poor drinking water Disease Wealthy men did not want to work Trouble with the Native Americans

Question What was the name of the first Virginia Colony that disappeared and who was it’s founder?

Answer 3 – 50 Roanoke John White 25 pts. for half right

Question Who founded the Carolinas?

Answer 4 – 10 A group of 8 Nobles – Proprietor Charter

Question Why were the Carolinas founded?

Answer 4 – 20 For economic reasons

Question True or False: Slaves in America were first brought into the Carolinas?

Answer 4 – 30 False

Question What is the Mason Dixon Line?

Answer 4 – 40 The line specified as the dividing line between the Northern and Southern Colonies. It runs along the top of North Carolina.

Question What was the difference between the settlers of North Carolina and South Carolina?

Answer 4 – 50 The settlers in North Carolina were mostly small farmers who farmed their own land. The settlers in South Carolina mostly had large plantations and slaves to work the land.

Question Who was the founder of Georgia?

Answer 5 – 10 James Oglethorpe

Question Why was Georgia Founded?

Answer 5 – 20 As an experiment to allow people in debtors prison in England a chance to work in America and pay back their debt.

Question True or False: The experiment placing debtors was a huge success.

Answer 5 – 30 False

Question True or false: Georgia was the last colony formed in the South?

Answer 5 – 40 True

Question What Spanish Colony was Georgia located next to and what significance was that for the rest of the colonies?

Answer 5 – 50 Florida. It was significant because if the Spanish wanted to come North to attack the England colonies, they would have to go through Georgia first. It was a buffer zone between the two Countries.