Age of Colonization
The year that Christopher Columbus sailed the Ocean-blue.
What is 1492
The first elected representative government established in the English colonies
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses
Under mercantile laws, the British empire expected the colonies to provide raw-materials and well as be what
What is a market for British goods
The daughter of the Indian chief, Powhatan, who was taken captive by the English of Jamestown and forced to adopt Christianity and marry the tobacco planter John Rolf.
Who is Pocahontas
The French and Indian War was part of a global conflict known as
What is the Seven Years War
The first European country to carve out colonies in the Americas.
What is Spain
Temporary workers, under contract, that primarily caused Nathaniel Bacon's Rebellion
What are Indentured Servants
The philosophical movement, based on Reason, that inspired the American Revolution. It became popular in the 1700s and led to ideas such as Natural Rights, the Social Contract, and Freedom on Speech and Worship
What is the Age of Enlightenment
The devastating war that enveloped New England in 1675-76, when the Wampanoag and various other tribes tried to expel the English from New England. Thousands of English & Natives were killed and Native nations of the region lost their independence.
What is King Philip's War
The young Virginia militia officer who is partly responsible for starting the French and Indian War.
Who is George Washington
This European country established fur trading posts along the Hudson valley and named their port-city "New Amsterdam."
Who are the Dutch (Netherlands)
Massachusetts Bay
The most famous American of the colonial era. He was a writer, statesman, diplomat, and inventor. Became one of the most important founders of the USA
Who is Benjamin Franklin
The most powerful Indian nation in the colonial era. It consisted of 5, then 6 nations in upstate New York and the Great Lakes. Their confederacy became a model for the USA later.
Who is the Iroquois or Haudenosaunee
(Mohawk gets partial credit)
In order to prevent the colonists from moving into the Ohio country, the King of England issued a proclamation known as
What is the Proclamation of 1763
What is the Middle Passage
Puritan dissenter who was banished from Massachusetts and settled Rhode Island under the idea of religious freedom and separation of Church and Government
Who is Roger Williams
The collective name for the list of legal protections held by all British subjects in the Empire. Britain's attempts to tax the colonies would be seen as a violation of these rights
What are the Natural-born Rights of Englishmen
What was the first Native group to be purposefully destroyed by Puritan colonists in New England. They are located in southern Connecticut and were the victims of the famous "Mystic Massacre."
Who are the Pequot
The policy of only loosely enforcing British trade laws between the years 1688 and 1763.
What is Salutary Neglect
The city (now in Canada) became the capital of the French colony of "New France."
What is Quebec City
Religious group that established the colony of Pennsylvania under the idea of pacifism and egalitarianism.
The widespread religious movement that swept through the colonies in the mid-1700s. It stressed human equality & created a willingness to question established authority.
What is the Great Awakening
The Odawa (Ottawa) chief and leader of the Indian Confederation that tried to push the English back over the Appalachian mountains after the French and Indian War.
Who is Pontiac
After the French & Indian War, Britain attempted to force the Colonists pay the Empire's debts through a series of new import duties and this MOST HATED direct tax on paper. It caused unified protest throughout the colonies
What is the Stamp Act