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Test 3
Chapters 5-6
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History
4th Grade
12/18/2012

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"the city of brotherly love"
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Philadelphia
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Name the 4 New England Colonies
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New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
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Name the 5 Southern Colonies
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Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
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New Amsterdam was changed to this name
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New York City
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Pennsylvania was a refuge for ____
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Quakers
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a paddle-shaped board containing the alphabet and Lord's Prayer
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hornbook
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a valuable blue dye produced in the Southern colonies
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indigo
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began the colony of Rhode Island
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Roger Williams
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changed name to New York City
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New Amersterdam
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designed the main settlement in Pennsylvania
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William Penn
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elected governor of the Puritans 12 times
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John Winthrop
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founded Georgia
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James Oglethorpe
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governed Massachusetts honestly and fairly
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John Winthrop
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had the idea to begin the colony of Maryland
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George Calvert
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hired to explore New York for the Dutch
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Henry Hudson
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large farms built to grow large fields of valuable crops
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plantations
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largest city in Massachusetts
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Boston
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poor people and prisoners settled this colony
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Georgia
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section of colonies that had the most schools
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New England Colonies
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settled the city of Hartford, Connecticut
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Thomas Hooker
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started America's first orphanages
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George Whitefield
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the 4 Middle Colonies
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New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
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the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut later served as a pattern for this important document
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Constitution
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the Mennonite schoolteacher who greatly influenced American schools
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Christopher Dock
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the brave governor of New Netherland who refused to surrender to the British
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Peter Stuyvesant
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the colony claimed by 3 different countries
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New York
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the colony founded by James Oglethorpe and named in honor of King George II
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Georgia
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the colony started by the Puritans
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
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the country that settled Delaware
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Sweden
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first college in America
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Harvard
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first colony to offer religious freedom for all
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Rhode Island
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founding of this colony meant Catholics could worship freely
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Maryland
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group of people who wanted to change the Church of England
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Puritans
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the group that started the colony of Pennsylvania
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Quakers
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the largest city in Rhode Island
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Providence
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the number of original colonies
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13
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they had religious and political freedom in Massachusetts
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Puritans
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this colony's name came from an Indian word
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Connecticut
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went to England to get a charter for Rhode Island
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Dr. John Clarke
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