Period of history that emphasized reason and science as the path to knowledge
What is the Enlightenment?
100
Year of the Salem Witch Trials
What is 1692?
100
"Mother Country" of the original 13 colonies
What is Great Britain/ England?
200
Under this plan, representatives from New York, Maryland, and Pennsylvania met in an attempt to have the group work together in order to have more power
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
200
New England's export as part of the Triangular Trade
What is rum?
200
Movement led by traveling ministers who preached that inner religious emotion was more important than outward behavior
What is The Great Awakening?
200
Present-day state in which Salem is located
What is Massachusetts?
200
Idea that a nation's economic strength came form protecting and increasing its home economy by making and keeping strict control over its colonies
What is mercantilism?
300
British colonel who commanded Fort William Henry
Who is Colonel George Munro?
300
Which region of the colonies saw the largest growth in the slave population from 1650-1750?
What are the southern colonies?
300
American diplomat, politician, thinker, and inventor of bifocal glasses
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
300
Minister of the Salem Village Church in 1689 whose daughter was one of the first accusers
Who is Samuel Parris?
300
Descendants of French Canadians who actively fought in the French and Indian War
What are Cajuns?
400
3 bodies of water in New York that the British and French fought over
What are the Hudson River, Lake Champlain, and Lake George?
400
Area of Africa from which slaves were taken
What is the Gold Coast?
400
Leader of the Great Awakening who gave the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
400
3 possible causes that history has for the accusers' actions
What are witchcraft, jealousy, repression, hysteria, guilt, and boredom?
400
In addition to the Ohio Valley, the French and Indian War was fought in these 2 other areas.
What are the Mohawk Valley (upstate New York between Adirondack Mountains & Catskill Mountains) and Acadia (part of Canada and present-day Maine)?
500
Years of the French and Indian War
What are 1756-1763?
500
West Indies' 4 exports as part of the Triangular Trade
What are slaves, sugar, molasses, and fish?
500
Man of the Enlightenment who wrote that all men have natural rights
Who is John Locke?
500
Fungus that grows on rye which, when ingested, causes hallucinations, delusions, seizures, and muscle spasms and is a highly possible scientific cause for the accusers' symptoms
What is ergot?
500
Restrictive laws passed that stated that colonists could only conduct business on British or colonial-made ships and, if colonists wanted to trade with another country, all goods must first be sent to England to be taxed