Colonial Foundations
The Mayflower Compact of 1620 is an early example of this principle of governance.
What is self-government?
These workers agreed to labor for several years in exchange for passage to the New World.
Who are indentured servants?
The Chesapeake economy was dominated by this cash crop.
What is tobacco?
These English trade laws restricted commerce to English ships and markets.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This intellectual movement emphasized science, reason, and natural rights.
What is the Enlightenment?
Colonists often resisted mercantilist laws by engaging in this illegal trade practice.
What is smuggling?
William Penn founded this colony as a haven for Quakers and religious freedom.
What is Pennsylvania?
This 1676 rebellion in Virginia revealed tensions between frontier settlers and elites.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
These colonies were known for diversity in population and religion.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This short-lived consolidation of colonies was led by Governor Edmund Andros.
What is the Dominion of New England?
This American thinker embodied Enlightenment ideals through science and civic projects.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Bacon’s Rebellion highlighted tensions between these two groups of colonists.
Who are frontier farmers and coastal elites?
This 1607 colony was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
The transatlantic route endured by enslaved Africans was known as this.
What is the Middle Passage?
New England’s economy relied more on trade, shipbuilding, and this natural resource.
What is fishing (or lumber)?
This 1688 event in England led to the restoration of colonial assemblies.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
This religious revival of the 1730s–1740s emphasized emotional preaching and personal faith.
What is the Great Awakening?
The Stono Rebellion led to harsher enforcement of these.
What are slave codes?
The colony of Maryland was originally founded as a refuge for which religious group?
Who are Catholics?
This 1739 revolt in South Carolina was one of the largest slave uprisings in the colonies.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
Rice and indigo were staple crops in this region.
What are the Southern Colonies (Carolinas/Georgia)?
England’s economic philosophy that colonies existed to enrich the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
He delivered the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
Colonists opposed this attempt by James II to centralize power in New England.
What is the Dominion of New England?
This 1662 religious compromise allowed partial church membership for descendants of Puritans.
What is the Half-Way Covenant?
Colonial legislatures passed these strict laws to codify racial slavery and limit rights of Africans.
What are slave codes?
These Native mound builders created Cahokia, the largest settlement in pre-Columbian North America.
Who are the Mississippians?
This body of water was central to England’s control over Atlantic trade.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This itinerant preacher traveled widely, drawing massive crowds during the Great Awakening.
Who is George Whitefield?
The Great Awakening encouraged colonists to question this type of authority.
What is religious (and by extension, political) authority?
FINAL JEOPARDY!!!
The overthrow of Governor Edmund Andros in 1689 was directly tied to which event in England, showing how political changes at home shaped colonial self-government?