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100
Name the first European-type legislative body in the New World.
What is the House of Burgesses?
100
This theory held that Earth had a limited supply of wealth in the form of natural resources, especially gold and silver.
What is Mercantilism?
100
The treaty that ended the French and Indian War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
100
What was the title of Thomas Paine's pamphlet that encouraged independence from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
100
These committees were formed because American patriots could not communicate publicly. One committee would exchange written communications with another committee within or between the colonies.
What is the Committees of Correspondence.
200
Name the first colonial rebellion in which English and slave colonists staged an uprising against the governor and his landowning supporters.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
200
Known as one of America's "Founding Fathers", he ran away to Philadelphia at the age of 17, and became one of the world's leading authors, philosophers, scientists and inventors.
What is Ben Franklin?
200
This required the colonists to print newspapers, legal documents, playing cards and so forth, on paper bearing special stamps.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
What French commander aided American troops, and also returned to France for a time to work with Franklin and the French king on how to win American Independence.
What is Marquis de Lafayette?
200
The Declaration of Independence borrowed phrases from the influential writings of this English Philosopher.
What is John Locke?
300
This colony was founded by religious dissenters from Massachusetts who were more tolerant of different religious beliefs.
What is Rhode Island?
300
The Sea Voyage that carried Africans to North America.
What is the Middle Passage?
300
This act allowed British officials accused of major crimes to be tried in England and forced the colonists to house British troops on their property.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
300
General Cornwallis was forced to surrender after the French and American armies attack and cut off his reinforcements. Considered the last battle of the Revolutionary War.
What is Yorktown?
300
This English Company planned to make money by sending people to America to find gold and other valuable natural resources and then ship the resources back to England.
What is the Virginia Company?
400
This Covenant allowed partial church membership for the children and grandchildren of the original Puritans.
What is the Half-way Covenant?
400
What was the name of the motion picture made in 2008, about a slain New York rap star who begin rapping on the streets of Brooklyn, NY and rose to national prominence.
What is Notorious?
400
American colonists opposed to British authority in Massachusetts formed a secret organization called.
What is the Sons of Liberty?
400
Washington and his troops spent the winter of 1777-1778 at this place. The army's problems with wages, housing, food and clothing were at their worst. Disease spread throughout the camp, increasing the suffering of the 12,000 men.
What is Valley Forge?
400
Was an early and bloody conflict between English colonists and Native Americans. It was named after the leader of the Native American.
What is King Phillip's War?
500
Who settled present day New York, and what was the original name of the colony.
What is the Dutch and New Amsterdam?
500
A period of time between the 1730s and 1740s were people were encouraged to seek his or her own personal and emotional relationship with God, and that doing this was more important than the Puritan idea of congregations gathering together to hear intellectual sermons.
What is the Great Awakening?
500
This philosopher published a pamphlet that had a big effect on colonists and moved many Americans to support independence from Great Britain. One argument insisted that the Atlantic Ocean was too wide to allow Britain to rule America, as well as an American government could.
What is Thomas Paine?
500
Was named the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army at the beginning of the American Revolution.
What is George Washington?
500
Was the first permanent French settlement in North America.
What is Quebec?
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