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Puritan Theologian of the Great Awakening, who is considered to be the deepest theological thinker produced in America.

Who is Jonathan Edwards?

100
This was the major manufacturing enterprise in colonial America in the 18th century.
What is lumbering?
100
These defined slavery as lifetime servitude, inheritable servitude and usually forbade whites from teaching slaves to read or write.
What are slave codes?
100
This conflict pitted former indentured servants against Virginia's royal governor. One of the effects of this conflict was an increase in slave labor.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
200
This person was most often called the "first civilized American."
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
This was the most honored profession in early colonial society.
What is the ministry?
200
Thomas Jefferson once observed that this was "the best school of political liberty the world ever saw."
What is the New England Town Meeting?
200
This conflict escalated in 1637 when a combined force of Massachusetts and Connecticut militiamen attacked a Native American village and massacred 500 men, women and children.
What is the Puritan-Pequot War?
300
This person was a Quakers and designed a colony as a refuge for his fellow believers.
Who is William Penn?
300
This group of colonists in New England earned fortunes in the West Indian trade. They invested their fortunes in manufacturing enterprises, new ships, refineries, and export businesses.
What is the merchant class?
300
These were the result of unsettled social and religious conditions in rapidly evolving Massachusetts.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
300
In this conflict, Native Americans destroyed one-fifth of the English towns in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and killed 1,000 settlers, which was nearly 5% of the adult population.
What is Metacom's War? AKA King Phillip's War.
400
He was an electrifying preacher who embodied the spirit of the Great Awakening.
Who is George Whitefield?
400

This treaty between Britain and France, resulted in British control of Newfoundland, Acadia, and the Hudson Bay region of northern Canada.

What is the Treaty of Utrecht?

400
As the southern colonies became full-fledged slave societies, this group of elites used their wealth to rule over white yeomen families and tenant farmers and relied on violence to exploit enslaved blacks.
What is the Southern Gentry or Chesapeake Gentry?
400
This was intended to force the American Colonists to buy a required ingredient for American rum from the West Indian Trading Company instead of the cheaper one from the French Caribbean islands.
What is the Molasses Act?
400
This conflict was the largest slave uprising in the mainland colonies in 1739.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
500
This philosopher believed that political authority was not given by God to monarchs but instead was derived from social compacts that people made to preserve their natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
500
These french colonists were originally settled in French Acadia and relocated to Louisiana.
What are Cajuns?
500
This made some people very wealthy and entailed giving the right to acquire 50 acres of land to the person paying for the passage of a laborer to America.
What is the Headright system?
500
This is when the British relaxed their supervision of internal colonial affairs.
What is salutary neglect?
500
This conflict between Spain and Britain began with the mutilation of an English sea captain.
What is the War of Jenkins' Ear?
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