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Java Games: Flashcards, matching, concentration, and word search. |
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Founding the 13 English Colonies
You will be asked to match the English colony with its origin.
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| A | B |
| Massachusetts | founded by Pilgrims |
| Connecticut | founded by dissenters from Mass. |
| Pennsylvania | Home of the Quakers |
| New York | began as New Netherlands |
| New Jersey | settled by Duke of York's noble friends |
| Delaware | also owned by the Penn family |
| Virginia | began at Jamestown in 1607 |
| Maryland | a Catholic colony |
| North Carolina | mainly poor famers who moved from Virginia |
| South Carolina | began at Charlestown |
| Georgia | a debtor colony |
| Rhode Island | the smallest colony |
| New Hampshire | began at Portsmouth |
| Vermont | not one of the original thirteen colonies |
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