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She believed that the truly saved need not bother to obey the laws of God or man. She was later banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
The “triangular trade” involved the sale of rum, molasses, and slaves among the ports of these three places.
What are New England, Africa, and the West Indies?
This act granted Marylanders freedom of Christian worship.
What is the Act of Toleration (1649)?
These were aimed primarily at the Jeffersonians and their allegedly pro-French activities and ideas.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts? +2
Idea that held that the stability of society and the authority of the government depended on the virtue of its citizenry.
What is Republicanism?
He was nicknamed “the father of the Constitution.”
Who is James Madison?
This was the primary early colonial competitor with Spain in the New World.
What is Portugal?
The Anglicans and this other denomination enjoyed the status of “established” churches in various colonies.
What are Congregationalists? +2
Its long-range purpose in 1754 was to achieve colonial unity and common defense against the French threat.
What is the Albany Congress? +2
This was the most powerful branch of government after new state constitutions were written after the Revolution.
What was the legislative branch? +2
His rebellion was triggered by land shortages and Indian policies.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon? +2
Church membership was the single most important qualification for voting, above all others, in the provincial government of this Colony?
What is Massachusetts Bay? +2
Among the many important results of this movement was that it broke down sectional boundaries and created a greater sense of common American identity.
What is the Great Awakening?
The legal basis for Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton’s Bank of the United States was based on this.
What is the “necessary and proper,” or “elastic,” clause in the Constitution?
Before 1763, these laws were only loosely enforced in the American colonies.
What are the Navigation Laws?
His rebellion was provoked by foreclosures on the mortgages of debt-strapped backcountry farmers.
Who is Daniel Shays? +2
The Whiskey Rebellion, which led to the strengthening and increased credibility of Washington’s government, was held in this state.
What was PA? +2
Reformers in this state secured the passage of the state’s Statute for Religious Freedom.
What is Virginia? +2
This was the first law ever passed by Parliament for raising tax revenues in the colonies for the crown.
What was the Sugar Act? +2
This prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Besides George Washington, among the most influential figures in the Constitutional Convention were these three men (must name all three for extra credit).
Who is Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton? +2
Early colonists in this area struggled with a shorter life expectancy than other regions, strange and debilitating new diseases, significantly more men than women, and a lack of stable family structure.
What is the Chesapeake? +2
This Church was re-formed into the Protestant Episcopal Church.
What is the Anglican Church? +2
These resolutions were written in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts.
What is the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions? +2
This ordinance provided that after sufficient population growth, western territories could be organized and then join the union as states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787? +2