Proposed by Benjamin Franklin during the French and Indian war to unite the colonists under a Grand Council
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
100
Religious movement in the Colonies
What is the Great Awakening?
200
Piece of land in conflict between the French and British
What is the Ohio River Valley?
200
People that can vote in the colonies
Who are white males with property?
200
Poor Richard's Almanac was his most popular publication selling 10,000 copies a year
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
Gave the English people rights in 1689.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
200
Indian uprising following the French and Indian War when British settlers started moving west
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
300
They got involved in the war, mainly siding with the French, because the fur trade led to conflict between major European powers
Who are the Native Americans?
300
Rights that every person is born with
What are natural rights?
Also known as unalienable rights
300
Author of a General History of Virginia
Who is Captain John Smith?
300
Written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, this document was influenced by John Locke declaring that all people are born with unalienable rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
Intellectual movement based on science and reason
What is the Enlightenment?
400
Agreement that ended the French and Indian War
What is the Treaty of Paris?
400
The colonies grew used to self-governing because of this British approach to governing the colonies
What is salutary neglect?
400
Great awakening minister, delivered the sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
400
Written in 1620, showed that the colonists believed they had the right to self-govern.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
Nickname given to takeover of the British throne by William and Mary of the Netherlands
What is the Glorious Revolution?
500
New western boundary for Britain in North America according to the Treaty of Paris
What is the Mississippi River?
500
He claimed that a government's duty is to protect natural rights and if the government fails, the people have the right to change it
Who is John Locke?
Thomas Jefferson later used the same philosophy in the Declaration of Independence
500
Author of a colonial bestseller about her kidnapping by natives during King Phillip's War
Who is Mary Rowlandson?
500
First document to limit the King of England and give people rights such as trial by jury
What is the Magna Carta?
500
Author of a English law book used by American lawyers