The Planting of English America (1500-1733)
Selling the Northern Colonies (1619-1700)
American Life in the Seventeenth Century (1607-1692)
Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution (1700-1775)
RANDOM
100
The type of company that the Virginia company was.
What is a joint stock company?
100
A pilgrim document.
What is the mayflower compact?
100
These people worked for seven years.
Who are indentured servants?
100
A movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730's -1740's.
What was the great awakening?
100
These laws sought to keep America tied to Europe.
What are the Navigation Laws?
200
Two wars happening in 1614 and 1644
What are the first and second Anglo-Powhatan Wars?
200
A new colony with an almost one thousand immigrants to start with.
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
200
This event created disdain towards former indentured servants and backwoods farmers.
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
200
A name for Orthodox clergymen.
Who are old lights?
200
Known officially as the Religious Society of Friends.
Who are Quakers.
300
These created the blueprint for the American slave system later in history.
What are the Barbados Slave Codes?
300
The group of people coming to the new world for freedom of religion, and the warm West Indies.
What is the Great English Migration.
300
The main passage to America.
What is the middle passage.
300
The book the Benjamin Franklin was most well known for.
What is Poor Richard's Almanack?
300
Gave the person sending indentured servants to America the rights to 50 acres of land.
What is the head-right system?
400
The great military power emerged from the Mohawk Valley in what is now New York.
What was the Iroquois Confederacy?
400
Its Greek for against the law.
What is antinomianism?
400
Made blacks and their children chattel.
What are Slave Codes?
400
This court case reflected the middle colonies politics.
What is the Zenger Trial.
400
He sailed the ocean blue in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
500
The type of fighting against rebellion that was used in Ireland and the Americas.
What are "Irish Tactics?"
500
This slowed English settlement into the west.
What is King Philip's War?
500
What are the witch finders or who is Matthew Hopkins?
500
This was recited by some at a school run by these people, " He who learns his A.B.C, Forever will a blockhead be, But he who learns his letter fair, Shall have a coach to take the air."
Who is the clergy?
500
The original names of Brown and Columbia University.
What is Rhode Island College and King's College?