Cabbages and Kings
In 1607, they sailed the open sea to found a colony named after THIS king. Include his name and number.
Who is James I?
As many as 90% of indigenous Americans were decimated by European diseases, most of all THIS virus.
What is smallpox?
THESE TWO groups of dissident English Protestants arose in the mid-1500s and faced persecution for their criticism of the Church of England
Who are Puritans and Separatists?
People from different colonies often felt little kinship with each other, although the experience of fighting together in THIS war against France helped foster a growing sense of unity.
What is the French and Indian War?
The British won the French and Indian War but it left them with THIS problem.
What is massive war debt?
The North American British colonies declared their independence in 1776 from THIS king. Include his name and number.
Who is George the Third?
The Stamp Act was a tax on THESE.
What are documents?
Puritan churches in the "New World" were nominally still attached to the Anglican Church back in England, but in practice they governed themselves. They eventually formalized this split by coming together to create THIS church.
What is the Congregational Church?
Long before George Washington came along, THIS religious movement featured charismatic sermons and helped begin to create a sense of shared culture among the colonies.
What is the Great Awakening?
The Intolerable Acts were known officially as THESE Acts.
What are the Coercive Acts?
The Columbian exchange included the introduction of THIS crop into the Caribbean, where it quickly became the most important staple.
What is sugar?
The first shots of the American Revolution were fired at THESE two locations near Boston, and are referred to as the "shot heard round the world."
What are Lexington and Concord?
Massachusetts Bay Colony puritans said women couldn't be religious leaders. SHE proved them wrong and was promptly banished to join her fellow dissidents in Rhode Island.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
THIS eighteenth-century European movement inspired many of America's founding principles and helped foster a shared philosophical and intellectual culture in the Thirteen Colonies.
What is the Enlightenment?
In order to recoup its war debts, the British government began imposing a large tax burden on the colonies, beginning in 1764 with stronger enforcement of the tax on THIS.
What is sugar?
This king launched the English Reformation because he wanted to get a divorce.
Who is Henry the VIII?
Colonial anger following the Coercive Acts prompted calls for even greater organization among colonists, notably the formation of THIS body, which met in Philadelphia.
What is the First Continental Congress?
Puritan communities in New England felt threatened in the late seventeenth century by cultural and economic change, which probably contributed to THESE famous trials in 1691.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
Not all rebellious colonists in the decades before the revolution were angry at the British. Many were angry at their COLONIAL governments, notably THIS group in rural Pennsylvania.
Who are the Paxton Boys?
Conflicts with Native peoples, such as THIS 1763 rebellion in the Great Lakes region, prompted the Proclamation of 1763, which many colonists felt was an infringement of their right to migrate westward.
What was Pontiac's War?
Through THIS system, the Spanish Crown granted colonists large estates in the Americas that included the legal right to forced indigenous labor.
What is the encomienda system?
The Tea Act technically reduced the tax on tea, but it increased the PRICE for tea because it granted an importation monopoly to THIS company.
What is the East India Company?
The famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" was written by THIS fiery orator.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
Benjamin Franklin and others tried to create more unity among the thirteen colonies in 1754 with THIS plan for a centralized colonial government. The plan promptly failed.
What is the Albany Plan?
Following the Boston Massacre, THIS colonial leader founded "Committees of Correspondence" to spread the word about perceived British oppression.
Who is Samuel Adams?