Who was it?
Who was it? 2.0
Colonies
What was it?
Acts
100

Who led the Virginia Rangers in the first battle of the French and Indian War?

George Washington

100

Who preached America's most famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

Jonathan Edwards

100

Which colonies grew rice and indigo?

Southern

100

What was the most widely used textbook in colonial America?

New England Primer

100

What act taxed legal documents?

Stamp Act

200

Who was the first poet of African descent in America?

Phillis Wheatley

200

Who is the author of Poor Richard's Almanac?

Benjamin Franklin

200

Which colonies, known as the 'bread colonies,' also mixed town and county governments?

middle

200

What was the Great Awakening called in Britain?

Methodist Revival or Evangelical Revival

200

What act required colonists to give housing and supplies to British soldiers?

Quartering Act

300

Who was the first professional musician and composer born in America?

William Billings

300

Who is the best-known missionary to the Indigenous tribes?

David Brainerd

300

Which colonies established a town government?

New England

300

What was the idea that the colonies existed solely for the good of their mother country?

mercantilism

300

What agreement granted membership to unconverted descendants of church members?

Halfway Covenant

400

Who was the general of the British army during the French and Indian War?

Edward Braddock

400

Who was the most powerful voice of the Great Awakening?

George Whitefield

400

Which colonies were founded by the Anglican church?

Southern

400

What was the first regularly published weekly newspaper in the colonies?

Boston News-Letter

400

What act said the colonies were subordinate to Britain?

Declaratory Act

500

Who was a young Irish member of Parliament who defended the colonies?

Edmund Burke

500

Who helped introduce the smallpox inoculation?

Cotton Mather

500

Which colonies had Congregational churches?

New England

500

What was the paddle-shaped board with a printed sheet that was used by children to learn to read?

hornbook

500

What canceled all previous land grants?

Proclamation of 1763

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