Colonies
New England
Middle & Southern
Colonial Personalities
Oops!
100
The economic basis of the French colonies in the New World
What is the fur trade
100
John Winthrop's phrase to describe the example he hoped Massachusetts Bay Colony would be
What is a city on a hill
100
These two colonies were Dutch until 1661
What are New York & New Jersey
100
Famous for his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Who is Jonathan Edwards
100
Hysteria leads to 19 hangings and 1 pressed to death. Oops!
What is the Salem Witch Trials
200
The first legislative body in the colonies
What is the VA House of Burgesses
200
This form of direct democracy was unique to New England and still exists today
What are town meetings
200
This colony was founded as a refuge for Catholics
What is Maryland
200
She was kicked out of Massachusetts after saying people didn't need ministers to talk to God
Who is Anne Hutchinson
200
Native Americans give Europeans potatoes, tomatoes, gold & silver and the Europeans give them smallpox and influenza. Oops!
What is the Columbian exchange
300
The economic theory that colonies exist to serve the mother country
What is mercantilism
300
This colony required town provide free education if they had 50 families or more
What is Massachusetts - The Massachusetts School Law
300
This Virginia provision gave 50 acres of land to anyone who paid the passage of another to the New World
What is the headright system
300
His trial established freedom of the press in the colonies.
Who is John Peter Zenger
300
Jamestown colonists focus on trying to get rich and neglect to grow food. During the winter, some die and others resort to cannibalism. Oops!
What is the starving time
400
French Protestants who came to the British colonies to escape persecution in France
Who are Hugenots
400
This was the last major organized Native American resistance in New England
What is King Philip's War
400
This rebellion occurred when backcountry settlers became upset that the Jamestown government was not protecting them from Indian attacks
What is Bacon's Rebellion
400
He hoped his colony would be a "holy experiment" in treating Native Americans fairly & practicing religious tolerance.
Who is William Penn
400
For awhile Britain was not strictly enforcing the Navigation Acts. The colonists are not going to be happy when that changes. Oops!
What is salutary neglect
500
The first permanent European colony in the present-day United States
What is St. Augustine
500
This was created to allow men who had not had a conversion experience to vote.
What is the half-way covenant
500
The only significant slave rebellion in colonial times
What is the Stono Rebellion
500
He founded Georgia as a debtor's colony
Who is James Oglethorpe
500
A dispute between the Spanish & British is named for an unfortunate sailor who lost a body part. Oops!
What is the War of Jenkins Ear
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