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?