Spanish SW
How do most historians believe Natives peoples arrived in the Americas?
Land Bridge
What crop would revolutionize the Chesapeake?
Tobacco
Term for Puritan/Calvinist viewpoint that God had ordained the outcome of history?
Predestination
Who led a 1676 rebellion of backcountry Virginians?
Nathaniel Bacon
Which religious denomination were French Jesuits?
Catholic
What number follows 10 in the police code meaning "message received"?
4
Name two items brought to Europe from the New world during the Columbian Exchange?
Tomatoes, potatoes, Squash, pumpkins, corn, syphilis
Which tribe's Indian leader tolerated the Virginia settlers at first though after his death his people were twice defeated?
Powhatan
Name one of the two major Indian Conflicts in New England in the 17th century.
Pequot War, King Phillips War (Metacom)
In which region of colonies was slave life especially severe?
Deep South
What was the primary economic activity of French in North America?
Fur trapping and trading
What Pixar movie shares its name with a vegetable dish?
Ratatouille
Term for Spanish govt "gifting" Indians to Conquistadors in return for promise to "Christianize"?
Encomienda
What was the name of the 1st colonial assembly, established in 1619 as a precedent for self-rule?
House of Burgesses
Which Governor of Mass. Bay declared the colony to be as a "City Upon a Hill"?
John Winthrop
What new formula for church membership was devised by the Puritan clergy that allowed new members given baptism - no need for a covenant!
Half-way covenant
The name of the Ottawa chief who led a bloody uprising against the colonists in the Ohio country in 1763
Pontiac
What planet was named after the goddess of beauty?
Venus
Which Spanish priest spoke out against abuses of natives and the encomienda system?
Bartolome de las Casas
Virginia was founded as what type of colony?
Joint Stock
Which Mass. Bay person was banished from the colony as a heretic because they preached that those who worshipped god through a personal connection could go to heaven
Anne Hutchinson
Name one of the two slave revolts mention in the text - one in 1712, the other in 1739
NY slave revolt, Stono Rebellion
Which were the two established (tax supported) churches in the colonies by 1775?
Anglican and Congregational
How many US states names begin with "new"?
4- New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, New Hampshire
What native American settlement near present-day St. Louis was home to as many as 25,000 people?
Cahokia
What soldier statesman founded Georgia?
James Oglethorpe
Which middle colony was primarily founded by Swedes in 1638
Delaware
How many people were executed in Salem, Mass 1692-1693?
19/20
The name of the newspaper editor charged with seditious libel but acquitted in 1735
John Peter Zenger
What is the most popular animal eaten before it's born and after it's dead?
Chicken