Period 1
(1451-1607)
(1451-1607)
Period 2
(1607-1754)
(1607-1754)
Period 3
(1754-1800)
(1754-1800)
Name that John!
ID that Pic!
100
Historians refer to the causes of Spanish colonization as the 3 G's.
What is Gold, Glory, and God?
100
These Puritans are the most famous group of Separatists who believed that the Church of England could not be reformed and fled to the New World to escape religious persecution.
Who are the Pilgrims?
100
This economic system describes how European nations sought to increase their wealth and power by maximizing the exports, and minimizing the imports of its colonies between the 15th and 18th centuries.
What is mercantilism?
100
This English captain is famous for his leadership of Jamestown colony. His leadership saved many people from death during the dreadful winter of "Starving Time," in which he proclaimed "he who shall not work, shall not eat!
Who is John Smith?
100
What is the Triangle Trade? What is the Atlantic System? What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
200
This institution allowed the Spanish government to "commend" or give Native Americans to certain colonists in return for the promise to Christianize them.
What is the encomienda system?
200
Passed in the "Catholic Haven," this law allowed all Christian faiths to exist in Maryland colony.
What is the Act of Toleration (1649)?
200
This concept during the American Revolutionary era considered women to be a custodian of civic virtue responsible for upholding the morality of her husband and children.
What is the Republican Motherhood?
200
As the founder and first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, this Puritan leader delivered the famous "City Upon A Hill" sermon that laid the foundation for the concept of American exceptionalism.
Who is John Winthrop?
200
Who is Pocahontas?
300
This reform-minded friar wrote The Destruction of the Indies in 1545 to chronicle the awful fate of the Native Americans and to protest Spanish policies in the New World, especially his horror regarding the catastrophic effects of disease on native people and how they were treated.
Who is Bartolomé de las Casas?
300
This edict made by King George III after the conclusion of the Seven Years War declared that the American colonists could not settle west of the the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
300
This document concluded the end of the first presidency by warning against the dangers of "permanent alliances" with other nations and arguing that new nations should only forge alliances on a temporary basis in extraordinary circumstances.
What is Washington's Farewell Address?
300
As the 2nd President of the United States, he was able to pass the Alien and Sedition Acts and prevent an all out war with France after the XYZ Affair in spite of attacks from Jefferson's Democratic-Republicans and even his own political party.
Who is John Adams?
300
What is Washington Crossing the Delaware?
400
The Incas and the Aztecs were known for their stunningly sophisticated civilizations and agricultural practices, which were primarily based on this crop.
What is maize?
400
This Englishman established the colony of Pennsylvania as a "holy experiment" that allowed freeman the right to vote, provided leadership for self-government, and was the most religiously tolerant and diverse of all 13 colonies.
Who is William Penn?
400
Within the First Party System, this group advocated for a strong central government as a check on the "tyranny of the majority, especially after the horrors of Shays' Rebellion and Robespierre's Reign of Terror in the French Revolution.
Who are the Federalists?
400
The First Anglo-Powhatan War between the Virginia colonists and the Chesapeake Native Americans resulted in a peace treaty sealed by the interracial marriage between Pocahontas and this man.
Who is John Rolfe?
400
What is a guillotine?
500
This 1680 Native American revolt against Spanish rule expelled the Spanish from modern day New Mexico for a period of 12 years and caused Spain to become more accommodating to Native Americans.
What is the Pueblo Revolt? What is Pope's Rebellion?
500
These laws reflected the intensifying colonial rivalries of the 17th century as England attempted to prevent colonial trade with other countries outside of its dominion.
What are the Navigation Laws?
500
This 18th century philosophical movement inspired the American Revolution through its advocacy of the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions.
What is the Enlightenment?
500
This Enlightenment philosopher greatly inspired the founding principles of the Revolutionary War, and was a direct influence on the drafting of the Declaration of Independence due to Thomas Jefferson's time abroad in France.
Who is John Locke?
500
Who is Molly Pitcher?