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`Life in the 13 Colonies JEOPARDY’
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Vocabulary
FINAL JEOPARDY
People Big Ideas Places Pot pourri
$100This region was known as the
“Breadbasket” of the colonies
What are The Middle Colonies?
$200The harsh New England
climate made it difficult for settlers to __________________
What is grow crops?
$300In the Puritan community, male colonists signed an
agreement called a ____________
What is a covenant?
$400Someone who owes money.
What is a debtor?
$500Was education important to
the Puritans?
No?
$100By 1752, James Oglethorpe
gave Georgia back to _______________
Who is King George II?
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He was the leader of the Puritan colony in Massachsetts Bay
Who was John Winthrop?
$300She disagreed with Puritan ways and started her own
colony of Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
$400The Puritans came to
America to seek religious freedom and to do this.
What is find a better way of life?
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Because he disagreed with Puritan leaders, he left
Massachusetts and founded Connecticut.
Who is Thomas Hooker?
$100They believed that people did not need preachers or
churches, in order to understand God.
Who were the Quakers?
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He gave the Puritans a charter to settle in North
America.
Who is King Charles I?
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In 1675 he led a war against the English colonists.
Who is Metacomet?
$400These were two major crops
grown in South Carolina?
What is rice and indigo?
$500This is the height of land
above sea level.
What is elevation?
$100Georgia was started for these
people.
What are debtors?
$200This colony was started so
Catholics could practice their religion.
What is Maryland?
$300This was the first colony to allow freedom of religion
What is Rhode Island?
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This was originally a Dutch colony that was taken over
by the English ?
What is New York?
$500This was the first settlement
in Georgia.”
What is Savannah?
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georgia were going to grow grapes and these, but they
did not grow well.
What are silkworms?
$200He was the leader of the
Indians during King Phillip’s War
Who was Metacomet?
$300Because he felt the
government of Massachusetts tried to
control peoples lives and religious beliefs, he left and
founded Rhode Island.
Who was Roger Williams?
$400This was the cause of King Phillip’s War between the colonists and the Native
Americans
What is land?
$500The settlement at New
Amsterdam later became this city.
What is New York City?
FINAL JEOPARDYFINAL JEOPARDY
The name of the first The name of the first Puritan settlement in Puritan settlement in
America?America?
What is Boston?
