WorksheetsFounders of 13 Colonies
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Who was the founder of Virginia?
James Oglethrope
Roger Williams
John Smith
Cecilus Calvert
Who was the founder of Massachusetts?
Duke of York
John Winthrop
William Penn
John Smith
Who is the founder of Pennsylvania?
Cecilus Calvert
John Smith
William Penn
Duke of York
Who is the founder of New York?
Roger Williams
King James
Duke of York
James Oglethrope
Who escaped deportation from Massachusetts to England, fled south with his followers, and purchased land from the Narragansett people and founded of the town of Providence?
Roger Williams
Cecilus Calvert
William Roger
John Smith
Also known as Lord Baltimore, who was the founder of Maryland?
Duke of York
George Calvert
John Winthrop
James Oglethrope
Who pleaded with King George II of England, and helped English prisoners, imprisoned for financial debt, relocate to form the royal colony of Georgia?
Roger Williams
King Phillip
James Oglethrope
John Smith
What Puritan was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a Heretic for challenging Puritan authority, and then moved south with family and followers to settle in Rhode Island?
Roger Williams
Bob
William Rogers
Anne Hutchinson
Who believed the Puritans were corrupted by the Anglican church & that the king had no right to give away land that belonged to Native Americans?
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
Henry Hudson
James Oglethorpe
In 1670 the first settlers arrived in South Carolina. What did they name their first settlement?
Mount Pleasant
Myrtle Beach
Florence
Charles Town
