Blank Jeopardy

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WHICH CAME FIRST?
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What is a charter?
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A charter is a legal paper that gives people
permission to explore, settle, and govern in the
land claimed by England
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What is a common?
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The land in the middle of a colonial town where
people could graze their livestock
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What is the Mayflower Compact?
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An agreement that the Pilgrims drew up on the
Mayflower and it set up the first government for
the colony
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What is the word that means to trade for goods?
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BARTER
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Who are people who rent small farms from a land
owner?
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Tenant Farmers
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Who was the original leader at Jamestown?
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John Smith
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Who is Roger Williams?
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He was a Puritan who established the colony of
Rhode Island
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Who wrote Poor Richards Almanac?
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Benjamin Franklin
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What Quaker established Pennsylvania?
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William Penn
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Which Native American befriended the Pilgrims and
taught them how to grow corn?
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Squanto
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What was the first English colony in America?
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Jamestown
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What was the first English colony in Georgia?
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Savannah
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What town is known as the town of Brotherly Love?
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Philadelphia
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What was the first colony in New England?
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Massachusetts
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What was the first southern colony?
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Virginia
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What was the main reason that people came to
settle in the New World?
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Religious Freedom
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What was the main purpose of early schools?
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To teach children how to read the Bible
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What was a rough, scratchy cloth that was half
linen and half wool?
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Linsey-woolsey
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What is a person who learns a trade from a master
artisan?
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Apprentice
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What is a book that is published yearly with
daily weather forecasts and interesting facts?
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Almanac
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Plymouth settled or Revolutionary War
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Plymouth settled
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George Washington or George W. Bush
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George Washington
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Stamp Act or Jamestown
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Jamestown
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Boston Tea Party or Battle of Bunker Hill
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Boston Tea Party
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Constitution or Declaration of Independence
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Declaration of Independence
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EARLY COLONIES

• BY
• R. Nadeau N. Burns