1st English Settlements
New England
Middle
South
Could be Anything
Great Awakening
Native Americans & Colonial Conflicts
The Enlightenment
100

This lost colony was established by Sir Walter Raleigh and James White

Roanoke

100

Includes what four colonies?

MA, RI, CT, NH

100

Which 4 colonies are in this region?

NY, NJ, DE, PA

100

What 5 colonies are in this region?

VA, MD, NC, SC, GA

100

Imaginary line that ran up the Appalachian Mountains.

Proclamation of 1763

100

The Great Awakening occurred in response to this European movement which emphasized secular logic and science over religion and faith.

The Enlightenment

100

This tribe was initially friendly to European settlers and even helped the Pilgrims to survive in their new home.

Wampanoags

100

The Enlightenment was a European, philosophical movement that favored secular reasoning and science over what?

Faith and religion

200

King James IV gave the Virginia Company to establish this colony in 1607.

Jamestown

200

What kind of geography (soil, terrain) did this region have?

Coasts, thin stony soil, plenty of trees

200

What types of jobs were found here?

Skilled and unskilled labor, farming, trade

200

What kind of crop is sold for money and not food?  Give an example.

Cash crop; i.e. tobacco, rice, cotton, sugar, indigo

200

This act stated that Colonists had to house British Soldiers.

Quartering Act

200

During the Great Awakening, people were encouraged to seek and know God on their own instead of relying on these people.

Ministers, pastors, clergy

200

This was the daughter of Chief Powhatan who married John Rolfe and supposedly saved John Smith's life.

Pocahontas

200

John Locke, an English Enlightenment thinker, argued for a government that acknowledged and respected these three natural rights.

Life, Liberty, and Property

300

What geographical problems did Jamestown face?

(Think location, animals, and water quality)

Marshes, mosquitoes, & salty water

300

Who first settled in modern day Massachusetts?

Pilgrims (Separatists/Puritans)

300

What type of climate did the Middle Colonies have?

Moderate (had all four seasons)

300

What is the type of worker is like a slave but did have limited right as well as the opportunity to eventually be considered free?

Indentured servant

300

This Act closed Boston's Ports to Shipping....

Coercive Acts (Intolerable) 

300

What two, broad factions appeared as a response to the Great Awakening?

(Hint: One embraced the new changes from the revival.  The other kept to the old ways.)

New Lights

Old Lights

300

This was a uprising led by small farmers and white settlers in Virginia's western frontier.  They were responding to attacks from Native Americans and political favoritism toward plantation owners.

Bacon's Rebellion

300

Montesquieu believed the powers of government should divided into these three branches of government.

Executive, legislative, and judicial

400

What was the name of the document that would govern the Pilgrims at Plymouth?

Mayflower Compact

400

Why did the Puritans come to America?

Seeking religious freedom

400

The Dutch originally settled in New York to trade what with the American Indians?

Furs

400

Southern plantation slaves came from where?

Africa or W. Africa

400

Colonists response to The Townshend Acts...

First Continental Congress (Protest, boycotts etc.)

400

The Great Awakening was an example of this religious event in which multiple people and places have spiritual experiences and a new fervor for their faith.

Revival

400

This violent conflict was in response to encroachments made by European settlers on Native American lands.  Ironically, one of the tribes fighting the Europeans was the once friendly Wampanoag tribe.

King Philip's War

400

This French Enlightenment philosopher believed individuals entered into a social contract to form a government that would protect their rights.

Rousseau

500

The Pilgrims went to the New World for religious freedom.  What Protestant sect did they belong to?

Separatists

500

Who could vote in the Massachusetts colony?

Male, church members

500

The founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, created a colony to protect what religious group?

Quakers

500

What religious group initially settled in Maryland?

Roman Catholics or Catholics

500

Give an example of colonial unity prior to or during the Revolutionary war...

Answers will vary... Sons of Liberty, Continental congresses, etc..

500

This itinerant preacher upset local clergymen, but his outdoor sermons were so moving that he even captivated the attentions of slaves, Native Americans, & religious skeptic Ben Franklin.

George Whitefield

500

This tribe had mixed relations with the Jamestown settlers which eventually led to two short wars, one in 1609-1614 and the other in 1622-1626.

(There are two acceptable answers, but just need one.)

Powhatans

Algonquins

500

This early Enlightenment thinker still held to his religious beliefs that people were basically bad.  To curb their wickedness, a strong monarchic government was needed.

(Hint: He named his book after a dragon-like creature from the Bible called a Leviathan)

Thomas Hobbes

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