What is Slave ship voyages from Africa to America.
100
An Enlightenment Philosopher-believing that people are born free with certain Natural Rights.
Who is John Locke
100
An area settled by immigrants who continue to be ruled by their parent country.
What is A Colony?
100
About 100 pilgrims decided to make a new home in North America, hoping worship freely on the Mayflower.
What is 1620
100
A country should try to get and keep as much bullion, gold and silver as possible. That a nation should have colonies where it could harvest raw materials and sell products.
What is Mercantilism?
200
What are Indentured Servants?
Who is Contracted to work as many as seven years to repay the cost of their passage?
200
Richard Henry Lee
Who is the representative from Virginia who presented a resolution to the Second Continental Congress calling for independence.
200
An Isthmus
What is a narrow strip of land that joins two larger land areas, for example, North and South America?
200
1523 to 1524
When did Giovanni da Verrazano an Italian who sailed for the French search for the Northwest Passage?
200
An agreement that the settlers agreed to obey all of their government's laws.
What is The Mayflower Compact?
300
The Most powerful government of eastern woodlands Indians formed in 1570.
What is The Iroquois Confederacy
300
People who enter a new country to settle.
What is immigrants?
300
Virginia became this, in which a governor is appointed by a King.
What is a Royal Colony?
300
1619
What is the year in which the House of Burgesses was formed?
300
The Bacon's Rebellion (Nathaniel Bacon)
What or who decided to raise a private army and attack the Native Americans and take their land.
400
The slave trade between New England, West Africa, The West Indies
What is The Triangular Trade
400
Colonists who enforced the boycott and organized other ways to resist British policies.
What is Sons of Liberty or Daughters of Liberty?
400
House of Burgesses
What is A Legislative or lawmaking assembly, and the representatives were called burgesses and became the first example of a limited government in the English colonies.
400
1607
What year was the colony-Jamestown-formed (in honor of King James I)
400
British colonial policy was to neglect their colonies, which means that they rarely enforced its trade regulations (ex-Navigation Act).
What is Salutary Neglect?
500
Provided legal authority to companies or individuals to a start a colony.
What is A Charter
500
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine persuading many readers to support a complete break with Britain.
What is "Common Sense"?
500
The location of the Salem Witch Trials in which 20 men and women were ordered to be executed to determine if they really were witches.
What is Salem, Massahusetts?
500
In 1734, Yes!
What year did authorities arrest John Peter Zenger, aprinter and publisher of the NY Weekly Journal for printing libelous (false) stories critical of the government of New York? Did he win his case?
500
Crops in constant demand, such as tobacco or rice.