Thirteen Colonies Jeopardy

This colony, founded by Puritans in 1630, grew to include the city of Boston as its capital.

What is Massachusetts?

This colony was founded by Roger Williams after he was banished from Massachusetts for advocating religious tolerance.

What is Rhode Island?

This colony was founded by Thomas Hooker and settlers from Massachusetts, and its 1639 Fundamental Orders is considered an early written constitution.

What is Connecticut?

This colony, the fourth in New England, was founded near the Piscataqua River and takes its name from an English county.

What is New Hampshire?

This 1636 school, founded to train Puritan ministers, became the first institution of higher education in the American colonies.

What is Harvard College?

This colony was founded by William Penn in 1681 as a haven for Quakers and takes its name from his family combined with a word for forest land.

What is Pennsylvania?

This colony, centered on a major port at the mouth of the Hudson River, was originally a Dutch colony before England seized it in 1664.

What is New York?

This small colony, wedged between New York and Pennsylvania, was named after an English Channel island.

What is New Jersey?

This smallest of the Middle Colonies was originally settled by Swedish colonists before falling under Dutch and then English control.

What is Delaware?

This Dutch colonial governor led New Netherland when an English fleet arrived in 1664 and surrendered the colony without a fight.

Who is Peter Stuyvesant?

This colony, founded at Jamestown in 1607, was the first permanent English settlement in North America.

What is Virginia?

This colony was founded by Lord Baltimore in 1632 partly as a refuge for English Catholics.

What is Maryland?

This colony, the southern half of an original joint grant, developed a plantation economy centered on rice and indigo.

What is South Carolina?

This colony, the northern half of the same original joint grant, developed a more varied economy of small farms and naval-stores production.

What is North Carolina?

This golden-leafed cash crop, first successfully cultivated for export by John Rolfe, saved the struggling Virginia colony's economy.

What is tobacco?

This one-room public building served colonial New England towns as both a place of worship and a site for town meetings.

What is a meetinghouse?

Under this system, a young person worked for a master for a set number of years in exchange for training, ocean passage, or room and board.

What is indentured servitude?

This one-room school, common in colonial New England, often taught reading, writing, and arithmetic to children of many ages together.

What is a one-room schoolhouse?

This colonial punishment device locked a wrongdoer's head and hands in place in the town square for public humiliation.

What are the stocks?

This colonial-era teaching tool combined a wooden paddle-shaped frame with a printed sheet of letters and prayers.

What is a hornbook?

This English Quaker received a royal charter in 1681 to found a colony as repayment of a debt owed to his family.

Who is William Penn?

This document, signed by Mayflower passengers in 1620 before landing, established a basic framework of self-government.

What is the Mayflower Compact?

This English philanthropist and social reformer founded a colony in 1733 with early rules against slavery and hard liquor, partly as a fresh start for debtors.

Who is James Oglethorpe?

This royal document defined a colony's boundaries, government structure, and the rights of its settlers under the English crown.

What is a colonial charter?

This proprietary colony was granted to eight loyal noblemen by King Charles II in 1663 and later split into two separate colonies.

What is Carolina?

This three-legged transatlantic trade network carried manufactured goods to Africa, enslaved people to the Americas, and raw materials back to Europe.

What is the triangular trade?

This grueling sea crossing, in which enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas under brutal conditions, was the deadliest leg of the triangular trade.

What is the Middle Passage?

This set of British trade laws required colonies to ship certain goods only to England and use English ships for trade.

What are the Navigation Acts?

This sweet, distilled spirit, produced in New England from Caribbean sugar and molasses, was a key colonial export in the triangular trade.

What is rum?

This major colonial port city in Massachusetts became a hub for shipbuilding, rum distilling, and transatlantic trade.

What is Boston?