The Thirteen Colonies
In this region with rocky soil and long winters - farming was limited to subsistence levels. Other people turned to industries like logging, shipbuilding, fishing, trading, or rum-distilling.
This many-time governor of Massachusetts Bay is known for his "City Upon a Hill" Speech... and for exiling Anne Hutchinson.
Who is JOHN WINTHROP?
Upset at the Governor of colonial Virginia over his chummy relations with the Natives led to this rebellion breaking out.
What is BACON'S REBELLION?
"Even the distance at which the Almighty hath placed England and America, is a strong and natural proof, that the authority of the one, over the other, was never the design of Heaven."
What is COMMON SENSE?
This battle in upstate New York is often considered the turning point of the American War for Independence.
What is THE BATTLE OF SARATOGA?
The Jamestown colony was originally controlled by the Virginia Company, which was an example of this type of company.
What is a JOINT-STOCK COMPANY?
"These are the times that try men's souls" wrote this author after Washington's troops were forced out of New York. I guess that was just common sense.
Who is THOMAS PAINE?
This rebellion over unfair taxes in Massachusetts set in motion the end of the Articles of Confederation.
What is SHAYS' REBELLION?
"Extend the sphere, and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens; or if such a common motive exists, it will be more difficult for all who feel it to discover their own strength, and to act in unison with each other."
What is FEDERALIST NO. 10?
Parliament's passage of the Intolerable Acts led to this meeting of most of the American colonies.
What is the FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS?
This Quaker colony was also known as the "Holy Experiment" in part because its Charter of Liberties (1701) guaranteed freedom of worship for all.
These three guys joined together like the Avengers, not to save New York, but to convince it to support ratification of the Constitution.
Who are JAMES MADISON, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, and JOHN JAY?
An early test for the new federal government, this rebellion saw Pennsylvania farmers upset over a product being taxed that they made from surplus corn.
What is the WHISKEY REBELLION?
"N THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern Parts of Virginia; Do by these Presents, solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid: And by Virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general Good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due Submission and Obedience."
What is the MAYFLOWER COMPACT?
This time period in Europe greatly influenced many American thinkers as well.
What is THE ENLIGHTENMENT?
This colony's large rice-growing plantations worked by enslaved Africans meant it was the colony that most resembled the economy and culture of the West Indies.
What is SOUTH CAROLINA?
To his enemies, he was King Phillip. But to his own Wampanoag people, he was known as this.
Who is METACOM?
The first major test of the new British imperial policy in 1763 was this series of attacks on colonial settlements on the Western Frontier, setting in motion Britain's Proclamation Line.
What is PONTIAC'S REBELLION?
"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty."
What is WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS?
Preachers like George Whitfield and Jonathan Edwards made a name for themselves during this religious movement characterized by fervent expressions of religious feeling.
What is THE FIRST GREAT AWAKENING?
This was the leader of the philanthropists who served as the first governor of Georgia when it was still a proprietary colony.
Who is JAMES OGLETHORPE?
This person proposed what became known as the Connecticut Plan, or Great Compromise, at the Constitutional Convention.
Who is Roger Sherman?
Sometimes called a peaceful "revolution", this saw the United States transition for the first time from one political party to another.
What is the ELECTION OF 1800?
"And be it also further Enacted by the same authority advise and assent that whatsoever person or persons shall from henceforth uppon any occasion of Offence or otherwise in a reproachful manner or Way declare call or denominate any person or persons whatsoever inhabiting, residing, traffiqueing, trading or comerceing within this Province or within any the Ports, Harbors, Creeks or Havens to the same belonging an heritick, Scismatick, Idolator, puritan, Independant, Prespiterian popish prest, Jesuite, Jesuited papist, Lutheran, Calvenist, Anabaptist, Brownist, Antinomian, Barrowist, Roundhead, Separatist, or any other name or terme in a reproachfull manner relating to matter of Religion shall for every such Offence forfeit and loose the somme of tenne shillings sterling or the value thereof to bee levyed on the goods and chattells of every such Offender and Offenders, the one half thereof to be forfeited and paid unto the person and persons of whom such reproachfull words are or shalbe spoken or uttered, and the other half thereof to the Lord Proprietary and his heires Lords and Proprietaries of this Province."
What is the MARYLAND ACT OF TOLERATION?
"Join, or Die," a political cartoon by Benjamin Franklin, was originally meant to draw support for this 1754 plan for an intercolonial government and a system of collective defense amongst the colonies.
What is THE ALBANY PLAN OF UNION?