History Unit 2, Assign. 8: Middle & Southern Colonies
Peter Stuyvesant
The Dutch governor of New Amsterdam was:
Liberties
The written guarantee of New York colonists' rights was called the Charter of __________.
Philadelphia
The Quakers were the religious group that settled:
1. New Jersey 2. Pennsylvania
The colonies given in payment of debts were:
1. inexpensive land 2. religious freedom 3. fair government
What were the benefits that Penn offered in order to draw settlers to his colony?
Quaker
A member of the Society of Friends, a religious group teaching brotherly love.
New Jersey
Colony named after Sir George Carteret's English home.
Delaware
Colony purchased from the Duke of York by William Penn.
1. Berkeley 2. Carteret
Founders for the colony of New Jersey.
South Carolina
Land grant to eight noblemen, became a colony of large slave owning estates.
North Carolina
Land grant to eight noblemen, became a colony of small individual farms.
Catholics
Lord Baltimore began Maryland for the _______.
Georgia
Oglethorpe did not allow slavery there.
Pennsylvania
Penn's woods.
toleration
Recognition of the rights of an individual to his own opinions and customs.
Toleration Act
The __________ of 1649 established religious freedom for both Catholics and Protestants.
Settlements in the new colony of Georgia were seen as providing safety from attacks.
Why wasn't South Carolina upset when part of its land was given to Georgia?