Political
The elected representative element of the Virginia General Assembly that inspired the General Assembly, to become a bicameral institution.
What was the House of Burgesses?
The founder of Calvinism who popularized ideas of predestination.
Who was John Calvin?
The 3 G's.
What are Gold, Glory, God?
Maize, a revolutionary crop used for human food, livestock feed, and export, was cultivated first in this year.
When was 1,200 BC?
A series of legal lynchings in the state of Massachusetts occurring in 1692 in which 20 adolescent girls faced trial.
What were the Salem Witch Trials?
The first governing document of Plymouth colony based on the allegiance to the king.
What was the Mayflower Compact of 1620?
A prominent religious dissenter who was excommunicated and exiled to RI and then killed in a Native American attack.
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
The exchange of diseases, ideas, food, crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Who was John Rolfe?
An American author who was the first African-American author of a published book of poetry.
Who was Phyllis Wheatley?
A document drafted by the settlers of the Hartford Colony led by Reverend Thomas Hooker that established a regime governed by the citizen.
What were the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
The religious leader that organized the Treaty of Tordesillas between Portugal and Spain.
Modern corporations of early 1600s that were used to provide funding for settlement in the New World.
What were Joint Stock Companies?
The number of languages that emerged from the meshing of North American colonies.
What is 2,000 languages?
Who was Roger Williams?
The treaty between the British and the French and their Spanish allies that ended Queen Anne's War.
What was the Treaty of Utrecht?
A group of English Protestants who would not accept allegiance in any form to the Church of England who later founded the Plymouth Colony.
Who are the separatists?
The economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.
What is mercantilism?
His proof that lightning was electricity, his publication of Poor Richard’s Almanack, his anonymous writings under assumed names, lending libraries, fire companies, hospitals made a name for him as a revolutionary figure/inventor.
Who was Ben Franklin?
The migration of English settlers, primarily Puritans to Massachusetts and the warm islands of the West Indies (Barbados) which brought Protestantism to the Americas and helped to populate the area.
What was the Great Migration of 1630-1640?
A Spanish system of land tenure in their New World colonies which became one of serfdom for the Native Americans.
What is encomienda?
A new type of sermon adapted from Puritan preachers who had noticed a decline in religious devotion of second generation settlers.
What were the Jeremiads?
The vast Dutch feudal system of estates that fronted the Hudson River in the early 1600s.
What are patroonships?
A system employed by the colonies of Virginia and Maryland that encouraged the importation of servant workers and indentured servants into the New World.
What is the Headright System?
An armed uprising held by the Virginia settlers from 1675 to 1676 that attempted to fight back against the British government.
What was Bacon's Rebellion?