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32 answers | 105 clues

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Georgia 7x $914 avg J:2 DJ:5

J $400 2008 Carpenters in this colony's city of Savannah went on strike in 1746 for better working conditions

DJ $600 1994 This colony was founded partly as a buffer between Spanish Florida & the other English colonies

DJ $1,000 1994 In 1770 this newest colony was the least populous, with only 33,000 residents

James Oglethorpe 7x $886 avg J:2 DJ:5

J $400 1996 In 1740 & 1743 this founder of Georgia led unsuccessful attacks on the Spanish in St. Augustine

DJ $600 1996 From 1733 to 1743 this future British general served as Georgia's first governor

DJ $2,000 2005 In February 1733 this Oxford alumnus landed where present-day Savannah is now

Philadelphia 6x 33.3% stumper $367 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $100 1990 In 1793 Geo. Washington attended the 1st U.S. circus in this city, then the nation's capital

DJ $700 DD 1988 Just 10 years after its incorporation, this city had more people than 80-year-old NYC

J $200 2019 In 1755 the University of Pennsylvania was chartered as the college, academy & charitable school of this city

Delaware 5x 50.0% stumper $1,000 avg DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $800 1987 Before the revolution, the Penn family also governed this small colony neighboring Pennsylvania

DJ $1,000 1990 In 1704 this colony was allowed to form its own legislature separate from Pennsylvania

FJ 1989 This colony was named for the 1st governor of the colony of Virginia

Virginia 5x 20.0% stumper $320 avg DJ:5

DJ $200 1999 Of the 13 colonies, this one had the first permanent English settlement

DJ $600 1994 John Rolfe was probably killed in a 1622 Indian attack at Bermuda Hundred in what is now this state

DJ $200 1986 Oldest of the original 13 colonies

the House of Burgesses 5x 20.0% stumper $1,980 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $500 1990 The Governor's Council was the upper house & this was the lower house of the Virginia legislature

DJ $2,000 DD 2000 In 1619 this first elected legislative assembly in America met in Jamestown

DJ $600 DD 1995 When this legislative body first met in Jamestown July 30, 1619, it consisted of 22 citizens

Roger Williams 5x 20.0% stumper $940 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 1992 This clergyman went to England in 1643 to secure a charter for Rhode Island

DJ $800 1994 After he was banned from Mass. Bay, this minister spent the winter of 1635 with the Wampanoag Indians

DJ $1,200 2018 A pioneer of religious liberty, hewrote "The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution" & founded his own colony in 1636

tobacco 4x $500 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2003 When the natives wanted to form an alliance with the Europeans, they shared a calumet stuffed with this

DJ $1,200 2018 In mid-Atlantic states, leaves of this New World crop were often used as currency

DJ $200 1988 John Rolfe, who married Pocahontas, was 1st to grow this crop commercially in Virginia

Maryland 4x $325 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $200 1993 In the 1630s the area that's now this state was called Terra Mariae

J $300 1997 The land granted to Sir George Calvert's son Cecilius was named this after Queen Henrietta Maria

DJ $400 2020 In 1632 this colony was chartered by Cecil Calvert as a safe haven for Catholics being persecuted in England

Maine 4x 50.0% stumper $725 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $500 DD 1997 The Penobscot Indians, whose homeland is in this state, first encountered Europeans in the early 1500s

DJ $1,000 1991 The Penobscot were an Algonquian speaking tribe found in what is now this US state

DJ $600 1988 In colonial times, this state, which doesn't touch Massachusetts, was part of it

Jamestown 4x $450 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2004 In 1676 this 69-year-old Virginia settlement was burned to the ground during Bacon's Rebellion

DJ $800 2020 Of 500 colonists in this first English settlement in N. America in fall 1609, fewer than 1/5 would survive the coming winter

DJ $400 2006 In 1608 Captain John Smith was elected council president of this settlement

Worth Knowing (21)

Plymouth 3 Pennsylvania 3 Massachusetts 3 John Alden 3 France 3 the Massachusetts Bay Colony 3 Peter Stuyvesant 3 the Huguenots 2 slavery 2 Pocahontas 2 North Carolina 2 Myles Standish 2 Miles Standish 2 Lord Calvert (Baltimore) 2 indigo 2 Connecticut 2 (Sir Francis) Drake 2 the Puritans 2 the Netherlands 2 Spain 2 John Smith 2

Other

33 answers | 76 clues

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Cotton Mather 5x 20.0% stumper $1,520 avg DJ:5

DJ $800 DD 1993 In 1693 this Puritan preacher wrote about witches in "The Wonders of the Invisible World"

DJ $2,000 2013 Last name of the theologian who married his stepsister Maria Cotton in 1662 & his nephew's widow Ann Cotton in 1715

DJ $1,200 2007 In 1685 he joined his father in pastorship of the Old North Church, a post he held until his death

smallpox 4x $1,350 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 2000 In 1721 Dr. Zabdiel Boylston of Boston gave the first inoculations in America against this disease

J $600 2007 In 1721 Dr. Zabdiel Boylston gave the first inoculations in America against this disease

DJ $4,000 DD 2020 Cotton Mather supported the Salem witch trials but was more forward-thinking when he urged inoculation against this disease

Worth Knowing (31)

the Stamp Act 3 rum 3 Harvard 3 Blackbeard 3 Thomas Paine 3 William Penn 2 the War of 1812 2 the Quakers 2 the Dutch West India Company 2 tea 2 Sweden 2 St. Augustine 2 San Antonio 2 Princeton 2 Poor Richard's Almanack 2 Patrick Henry 2 New York 2 New England 2 John Rolfe 2 John Locke 2 Jakarta 2 indentured servants 2 Dutch 2 Daniel Boone 2 Canada 2 Boston 2 Betsy Ross 2 Lawrence Washington 2 the Fraunces Tavern 2 the French & Indian War 2 Peter Minuit 2

Revolutionary Era

4 answers | 22 clues

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Benjamin Franklin 13x 8.3% stumper $633 avg J:1 DJ:11 FJ:1

DJ $200 1996 In 1774 this Pennsylvanian was stripped of his deputy Postmaster General's office

DJ $600 1993 In 1776 he said, "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately"

DJ $1,000 1988 The mother of this founding father's illegitimate son William has never been identified

Should-Know (1)

the Continental Congress 5x 20.0% stumper $1,200 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $600 2008 The second of these legislatures drew up the Articles of Confederation

DJ $1,200 2020 With the hated "Intolerable Acts" on their minds, the first of these government bodies met in Philadelphia in 1774

DJ $600 1990 On Sept. 5, 1774, Peyton Randolph of Virginia became the 1st President of this body

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the Boston Tea Party 2 Paul Revere 2

Ancient

1 answers | 4 clues

Should-Know (1)

New Jersey 4x 50.0% stumper $550 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $400 2004 The first stagecoach line was established in 1732 between Burlington & Amboy in this colony

DJ $600 1999 During much of the colonial period, its assembly met alternately at Perth Amboy & Burlington

J $400 1990 Between 1702 & 1790, Burlington alternated with Perth Amboy as capital of this colony

World War I

1 answers | 2 clues

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Germany 2

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