The year Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas.
What is 1492?
100
Invested in English raids on the Spanish New World; Spain responded with the Spanish Armada; She also established Protestantism in England and encouraged English business.
Who is QUEEN ELISABETH I?
100
The colony that John Winthrop was associated with.
What is the MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY?
100
The document that set the invaluable precedent for the later written constitutions; a simple agreement to form a crude government and to submit to the will of the majority under the regulations agreed upon.
What is the MAYFLOWER COMPACT?
100
Election to a seat in this representative assembly was limited to voting members of the charter colonies, which at first was all free men; later rules required that a man own at least fifty acres of land to vote.
What is the HOUSE OF BURGESSES?
200
The year Britain defeated the Spanish Armada.
What is 1588?
200
Claimed to have had special revelations from God that superseded the Bible, contrary to Puritan doctrine and was tried and banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for this claim.
Who is ANNE HUTCHINSON?
200
The first proprietary colony to serve as a refuge for English Catholics.
What is MARYLAND?
200
This doctrine was founded on the belief that the world's wealth was sharply limited and, therefore, one nation's gain was another nation's loss. Each nation's goal was to export more than it imported in a favorable balance of trade.
What is MERCANTILISM?
200
A philosophy that dictated that human reason was adequate to solve mankind's problems and, correspondingly, much less faith was needed in the central role of God as an active force in the universe.
What is the ENLIGHTENMENT?
300
The year Jamestown was established.
What is 1607?
300
Selected Roanoke Island as a site for the first English settlement, this person abandoned their attempts to colonize Virginia after the failure at Roanoke.
Who is SIR WALTER RALEIGH?
300
Was established by the Dutch first, but between 1664 and 1674, this colony continually switched between Dutch and English ownership, ending with English ownership in 1674.
What is DELAWARE?
300
These Acts dictated that certain goods shipped from a New World port were to go only to Britain or to another New World port. It served as the foundation of England's worldwide commercial system.
What are the NAVIGATION ACTS?
300
The name of the war were Metacom and his alliances coordinated assaults on English villages throughout New England. In 1676 when the war ended fifty-two Puritan towns had been attacked, and twelve had been destroyed entirely.
What is KING PHILIP'S WAR?
400
The year Plymouth was founded.
What is 1620?
400
English colonist in Jamestown, Virginia who created the process for curing tobacco, which ensured economic success for Jamestown.
Who is JOHN ROLFE?
400
Settled by Thomas Hooker, who led a large group of Puritans there after they had a slight religious disagreement with the leadership of Massachusetts.
What is CONNECTICUT?
400
Created a Papal Line of Demarcation, which divided the New World: east of the line for Portugal and west of it for Spain. Later, the Papal Line would affect the colonization of Africa and Asia.
What is the TREATY OF TORDESILLAS?
400
In 1676, a man objected to the rights granted to Virginia's wealthy inner circle and was angered by Governor Berkeley's inability to protect Virginia from attacks by the Native Americans so he commanded two unauthorized raids on Native American tribes. Later he rallied his forces and set fire to Jamestown to defend his forces' position.
What is BACON'S REBELLION?
500
The year twenty people were executed because they were accused of being witches by several young girls.
What is 1692?
500
After an account of his 1497 expedition was published, a cartographer mistakenly thought that this man had led the expedition to the New World, so the cartographer named that continent America.
Who is AMERIGO VESPUCCI?
500
Established as a Royal colony, this colony remained economically dependent on Massachusetts, and Britain continued to appoint a single person to rule this colony until 1741.
What is NEW HAMPSHIRE?
500
A system used by the Virginia Company to attract colonists; it promised them parcels of land (roughly fifty acres) to immigrate to America.
What is the HEADRIGHT SYSTEM?
500
The name of the war were hostilities exploded in 1637 between the English settlers and a powerful Native American tribe; It involved the English settlers capturing a Native American village and setting fire to the Indian wigwams and shooting all the fleeing survivors. This act actually ended the war because the whole Indian tribe was wiped out.