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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)?
This was the primary reason for the spectacular growth of America’s population in the eighteenth century.
What was the natural fertility of the population?
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
They feared the arbitrary and enhanced power of the monarchy and its ministers at the expense of Parliament.
What is Radical Whigs? +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 is the Navigation Laws?
His rebellion was provoked by foreclosures on the mortgages of debt-strapped backcountry farmers.
Who is Daniel Shays? +2
This battle was a key turning point of the War for Independence because it brought about crucial French assistance to the Revolutionary cause.
What was Saratoga? +2
Reformers in this state secured the passage of the state’s Statute for Religious Freedom.
What is Virginia? +2
These were aimed primarily at the Jeffersonians and their allegedly pro-French activities and ideas.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts? +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
The most ethnically diverse region of colonial America was _________ , whereas ________ was the least ethnically diverse.
What is the middle colonies, New England? +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
American colonists especially resented these Acts because the revenues from the taxation would go to support British officials and judges in America.
What are the Townshend Acts? +2