13 Colonies

2. members of a group with Christian roots that began in England in the 1650s.
4. He is famous for his role in the exploration of the New World and is responsible for the settlement and survival of Jamestown, England's first permanent colony in America.
6. was an American colonial political leader and historian. He was a very effective governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
8. was famous as one of the early colonists of the Massachusetts Colony who was banished from Boston in 1637 for her religious and feminist beliefs and fled to the Rhode Island Colony.
11. which recounts being kidnapped from Africa as a child and sold into slavery. He bought his freedom and became part of the abolition movement.
12. A widower, he fell in love with and married (1614) Pocahontas, daughter of the Native American chief Powhatan.

1. Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I.
3. helping the early Pilgrims survive in the harsh New England environment.
5. On August 1664, the English moved in and renamed the city, New York, after the Duke of York who had been granted the colony.
7. was a Powhatan Native American woman, born around 1595, known for her involvement with English colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia.
9. was an English Quaker best known for founding the colony of Pennsylvania as a place for religious freedom in America.
10. each colony to pass a series of laws restricting slaves' behaviors.