State Name Contest

Which state began as land, given to Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret and was named after the island of Jersey, off the English coast

• New York

• New Jersey

• Connecticut

• Rhode Island

This colony, granted to Lord Baltimore, was named for Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of King Charles I of England, and was called Terra Mariae in Latin.

• North Carolina

• South Carolina

• Maryland

• Delaware

This southern state was chartered by King George II of England and named after him.

• South Carolina

• Massachusetts

• New York

• Georgia

This area was part of a grant to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason. It was named after one of the English "shires" from which the men hailed.

• Georgia

• New Hampshire

• Maryland

• Pennsylvania

This area, which now comprises two states, is called by the Latin name for Charles, in honor of King Charles I.

• Carolinas

• Georgia

• Connecticut

• New Jersey

The first colony was named after Queen Elizabeth I of England, known as the Virgin Queen.

• Maryland

• Virginia

• Rhode Island

• New Hampshire

This area was name after the Indian town that the settlers understood to be called Massachuset.

• North Carolina

• Maryland

• Connecticut

• Massachusetts

Some historians say that this state was originally called by a Dutch name, Roodt Eylandt.

• New York

• Pennsylvania

• Rhode Island

• Georgia

The name of this state may have come from the Algonquian Indian name Kwenihtekot, for the river that flows through the area, or the Indian word quienetucquet.

• Connecticut

• New York

• Massachusetts

• Delaware

Captain Samuel Argall sailed north from Jamestown and found a large cape, which he named after the governor of Virginia, Lord de La Warr.

• Maryland

• New Jersey

• Delaware

• Connecticut