1. Natives and European Contact
People that lived in North America before settlers.
Who are the Native Americans?
"Lost colony"
What was Roanoke?
Violent South Carolina slave uprising of 1739.
What was the Stono Rebellion?
“Poster child” of Enlightenment thought.
Who was Ben Franklin?
Pamphleteer who wrote Common Sense.
Who was Thomas Paine?
Wiped out natives because of lack of immunity.
What is smallpox?
The first European since the vikings to come across the North American continent.
Who was John Cabot?
Religious revival movement of the 1730s–40s led by Jonathan Edwards & George Whitefield.
What was the Great Awakening?
Preachers that were popular with the ordinary people.
Who were the revival preachers?
British crackdown after the Boston Tea Party.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
Disease killed __% of the Native American population.
What is 90%?
First written agreement of self-government in America (1620).
What was the Mayflower compact?
Native uprising after the Seven Years’ War in 1763.
What was Pontiac's Rebellion?
Belief in a rational God who stepped back after creating the world.
What is Deism?
The turning point battle that brought French aid.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
How did depopulation make it easier for Europeans to colonize the Americas?
What is less manpower?
First elected assembly in Virginia (1619).
What was the House of Burgesses?
British policy of hands-off colonial rule in the early 1700s.
What was Salutary Neglect?
British law banning settlement west of the Appalachians.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
“First martyr” killed at Boston Massacre.
What were the Crispus Attacks?
How do we still see the effects of the Columbian Exchange in our diets and daily lives today?
What is food and animals? EX. corn, potatoes, horses, cattle, etc.
The reason Jamestown settlers struggled to survive.
What was the swamp with malaria carrying mosquitos that colonists were not immune to?
Political philosophy celebrating active, virtuous participation in public life.
What is Republicanism?
Traveling evangelist who drew massive crowds.
Who was George Whitefield?
Enslaved and free blacks offered freedom for joining the British army.
What was Lord Dunmore's Proclamation?