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4. The route taken from England, to the 13 colonies, to Africa or the West Indies was called. . .

5. Answer:
The triangular trade route

6. A person brought against their will from Africa to work in the colonies for be sold as property. . .

7. Answer: a slave

8. This means “Penn’s Woods”. . .

9. Answer: Pennsylvania

10. This means “City of Brotherly Love”. . . .

11. Answer: Philadelphia

12. Someone who worked for free for several years in exchange for passage to the colonies. . .

13. Answer:
Indentured servant

14. He brought the first group of Puritans to the Massachusetts Bay colony.

15. Answer: John Endecott

16. She made indigo a major cash crop in the Southern colonies

17. Answer: Eliza Lucas Pinckney

18. He founded Connecticut and wrote The Fundamental Orders

19. Answer: Thomas Hooker

20. He was a colonial minister who believed that power should be with the people (colonists)

21. Answer:
John Wise

22. He opened the first library, fire department, and insurance company in the colonies.

23. Answer:
Benjamin Franklin

24. Why was the Massachusetts Bay Colony founded?

25. Answer: so the Puritans could practice their religion more purely

26. The last English colony was founded to make $ and give debtors a way out of jail

27. Answer: Georgia

28. This colony, named after an English Queen, was a refuge for Catholic people

29. Answer: Maryland

30. Two exiled people from Massachusetts Bay founded this colony to have religious freedom and make $

31. Answer:
Rhode Island

32. These colonies expanded the English empire
These colonies expanded the English empire. It was no trouble taking it from the Dutch.

33. Answer:
New York and
New Jersey

34. He saved the Jamestown colonists from starvation and was almost executed by Powhatan.

35. Answer:
John Smith

36. They founded the Rhode Island Colony

37. Answer: Ann Hutchinson and Roger Williams

38. This family started the colony of Maryland.

39. Answer:
The Calverts

40. The king of England owed his family a debt, so they made him the proprietor of Pennsylvania.

41. Answer:
William Penn

42. He was a Native American who dressed like an Englishman
He was a Native American who dressed like an Englishman. He started “King Philip’s War” against the colonists.

43. Answer:
Metacomet

44. In 1754, the English fought against the French, and their allies, the ________________

45. Answer:
Indians
(Native Americans)

46. Our nation’s first president, he was a hero for the English during the French and Indian War.

47. Answer:
George Washington

48. He was the British General whose troops were defeated early in the war.

49. Answer:
General Braddock

50. This was the name of the land the English and French were fighting over.

51. Answer: The Ohio River Valley

52. The Ohio River Valley belonged to _______ after the war.

53. Answer:
The English/British

54. Final Jeopardy
Make your wager

55. Which natural resource in the Virginia colonies made its colonists very wealthy? (hint: It is bad for your health.)

56. Answer: tobacco