Pre-Colombian and Colombian America
The religious belief that supernatural forces inhabit inanimate objects.
What is animism?
The first successful English colony.
What is Jamestown?
A series of accusations of witchcraft by Puritans.
What is the Salem Witch Trials?
Surveyor during the French and Indian War who would later become Commander-in-Chief of the American Army.
Who is George Washington?
3 factions the colonies identified with based off their loyalty in the Revolutionary War.
What are the Loyalists, Neutrals and Patriots.
The deadly disease brought to the Americas from Europe.
What is smallpox?
Religious pacifists who colonized Pennsylvania.
Who are the Quakers?
A period of religious revival in colonial America.
What is the First Great Awakening?
Series of punishments imposed by the English to reprimand the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts?
Pamphlet written to justify colonial rebellion.
What is Common Sense?
System of slavery adopted by Spanish colonists.
New England settlement founded by Pilgrims.
What is Plymouth?
Rebellion of indentured servants (like Nathaniel Bacon) and former slaves against natives and Governor Berkeley.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
A period of conflict during which the French allied with Native-Americans to drive out English colonists.
What is the French and Indian War?
Author of Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
The system of slavery that claimed manual laborers as property to be bought and sold.
What is chattel slavery?
Religious branch that enforces strict values and morals (encapsulates the Pilgrims).
What is Puritanism?
2 deeply religious woman authors in Colonial America.
Who are Anne Bradstreet and Phyllis Wheatley?
First (Black-Native-American) man killed during the Boston/Bloody Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
Document written by the Second Continental Congress in a last attempt to make peace with Britain.
The holy man who reported the immorality of the encomienda system.
Who is Bartelome de las Casas?
Religious separatists who founded Rhode Island.
Who are Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams?
2 deeply religious Christian authors and preachers during the period of religious revival in colonial America.
Who are Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield?
British decree that illegalized colony past the Appalachians.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
A decree that guaranteed slaves freedom if they fled to join the British Army.
What is the Dunmore Proclamation?