In 1587, he sponsored the first English settlement on Roanoke Island, which later became known as the Lost Colony.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
100
English Calvinists led a Protestant movement whose members were persecuted by the monarchs.
Who are the Puritans?
100
Was a British act made the colonists buy only British goods and to pay tariffs on top of the price of the goods.
What are the Navigation Acts?
100
Was developed by Benjamin Franklin and was formed by seven colonies as a means to collect taxes to form a defense (military) however the plan was rejected because the colonies did not want be united.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
100
Was convened in 1774 and represented all colonies except Georgia and was established as a way to discuss their grievances.
What was the First Continental Congress?
200
Named for the virgin Queen Elizabeth, this joint-stock group of investors bought the right to establish New World plantations.
What is the Virginia Company?
200
Were English immigrants who were helped and taught by the Pokanoket, Squanto, to survive.
Who are the pilgrims?
200
It is a form of government based on two legislature "houses" and was modeled after the British Parliament.
What is a bicameral legislature?
200
Was a nine year war in which Indians and the French sided against the British.
What is the Seven Years' War?
200
Was published by printer Thomas Paine that advocated independence but argued republicanism over monarchy.
What was the Common Sense pamphlet?
300
The Powhatans introduced the English to a new cash crop that was grown on the plantations.
What is tobacco?
300
These are considered the first written constitution of "British" North America.
What are the Fundamental Orders.
300
Was an rebellion or uprising by slaves in 1739 that began outside Charleston, South Carolina.
What is the Stono Uprising or Cato Rebellion?
300
Was the British act to forbid the colonies to issue paper money.
What is the Currency Act?
300
Was a document written by Thomas Jefferson that would establish the principles of individual liberty, government responsibility, and serve the people, that is the white men who were property owners.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
400
Freedom along with a small tract of land was received after seven years of labor.
What is indentured servitude?
400
English King Charles II considered these people of this religious group "dangerous radicals" and exiled them from England.
Who are the Quakers?
400
They began with teenage girls accusing the prominent citizens of consorting with the devil and ended with prosecution and for some, execution.
What were the Salem Witch Trials?
400
Were acts put in place by the British government to tax imported goods, used to fund British government offices that enforced the "crown's" will in the colonies, and allowed British authority to search any place.
What are the Townsend Acts?
400
Was a 1778 agreement that was negotiated by Benjamin Franklin that brought the French into the war and to side with the colonists.
What was the Franco-American Alliance?
500
Was introduced by the Virginia Company to attract settlers to become tobacco farmers in 1618.
What is the headright system?
500
This shipping route brought slaves to the Americas and was considered the middle leg of the triangular trade route.
What is the Middle Passage?
500
Were part of America that included New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, had major trade centers, and fertile farming lands.
What are the middle colonies?
500
Was an event held on December 16, 1773 where a protesting group called the Sons of Liberty dumped L10,000 worth of tea in the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
500
Was a governing document that excluded women, Indians, Blacks with the same rights even though it proclaimed that "all men are created equal."