Chapter 1
Spanish conquerors
Who are conquistadors?
Established the first self-government in the New World
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Undeveloped area at the edge of the settled area
What is frontier?
Preached the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
Taxed imported goods such as sugar, molasses, and coffee
What is the Sugar Act?
First permanent English settlement in North America
What is Jamestown?
Official permission for founding a colony
What is a charter?
Wave of immigrants that came from Europe to America in the early years of colonization
What is the Great Migration?
First college in America
What is Harvard?
Primary author of the Albany Plan of Union
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
French explorer who has been called the Father of New France and who built the fort whichlater became the city of Quebec
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
Originally called New Netherland
What is New York?
three-year conflict (1675–78) between the Indians and New England colonists in which at least six hundred colonists and two thousand Indians were killed, including Metacomet
What is King Philip’s War?
Majority of New England Puritan churches, members had a voice in how they operated
What is Congregationalist?
Made the statement “Give me liberty or give me death”
Who is Patrick Henry?
First representative assembly in America and became a model for other colonies and eventually the form of America’s government.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
Guaranteed religious freedom to all who believed in the Trinity
What is Act of Toleration?
Free adult white male property owners who could vote for representative
Who are freeholders?
Covenant allowed children to be baptized into the church even if the parents did not profess salvation
What is the Half-way Covenant?
Over one hundred men boarded British ships and tossed the tea overboard
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Three hardships the early Jamestown settlers faced
What are (1) food shortages, (2) disease, (3) impure drinking water, (4) Indian attacks, and (5) fires?
King Charles II granted eight loyal friends who supported him during the English Civil War a tract of land which they named_________.
What is Carolina?
Dangers faced by those on the frontier
What are skirmishes with Indians and clashes between ethnic groups?
The philosophy that the Bible had to be tested by human reason and that after God created the universe He rarely intervened in human affairs
What is deism?
First town the British troops reached and where the first casualties of the War for Independence occurred
What is Lexington?