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1.) ___ROANOKE______________________ ___ISLAND____________, off the coast of present-day North Carolina, was the first English settlement in the New World.

 

2.) _______JAMESTOWN___________________, Virginia proved to be the first permanent English settlement in the New World.

 

3.) In 1620, the Pilgrims arrived at ______PLYMOUTH_______________, Massachusetts.

4.) New York City was originally a Dutch settlement known as New ___AMSTERDAM_____________________.

5.) William Penn founded Pennsylvania in 1681 as a refuge for ___QUAKERS____________________.

6.) In 1670, the Lord's ____PROPRIETORS_____________________ were given the land that is now North and South Carolina.

7.) The original government formed by the Pilgrims when they reached Massachusetts was called the ___MAYFLOWER__________________________ ___COMPACT_________________.

8.) In 1619, the House of ______BURGESSES____________, America's first representative government, met for the first time in Jamestown, Virginia.

9.) In 1732, James Oglethorpe founded Georgia. It was the ___LAST______________ of the original 13 colonies.

 

10.)*** Bonus The nation's oldest Baptist church and second oldest Jewish temple were founded in this colony.

RHODE ISLAND

11.)*** Bonus The Ark and Dove were two ships that brought settlers to the ____MARYLAND______________ colony for the first time in November of 1633.