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When Worlds Collide, 1492-1590
Planting Colonies in North America, 1588-1701
Slavery and Empire, 1441-1770
Cultures of Colonial North America, 1700-1780
From Empire to Independence, 1750-1776
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Martin Luther’s challenge to the Catholic Church, initiated in 1517, calling for a return to what he understood to be the purer practices and beliefs of the early church.
What is Protestant Reformation?
100
The legislature of colonial Virginia. First organized in 1619, it was the first institution of representative government in the English colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses ?
100
The section of the triangular trade in which slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas.
What is middle passage?
100
Similar to an indentured servant, except that the labor contract was signed in America rather than in Europe.
What is Redemptioner ?
100
An American term for the Coercive Acts and the Quebec Act.
What are the Intolerable Acts ?
200
The belief that God decided at the moment of Creation which humans would achieve salvation.
What is Predestination ?
200
Individuals who contracted to serve a master for a period of four to seven years in return for payment of the servant’s passage to America.
Who are Indentured Servants ?
200
Economic system whereby the government intervenes in the economy for the purpose of increasing national wealth.
What is Mercantilism ?
200
People who experienced conversion during the revivals of the Great Awakening.
Who are the New Lights ?
200
The last of the Anglo-French colonial wars (1754–1763) and the first in which fighting began in North America. This war ended with France’s defeat.
What is the French and Indian War?
300
A medieval European social system in which land was divided into hundreds of smallholdings.
What is Feudalism ?
300
Individuals who believed that Queen Elizabeth’s reforms of the Church of England had not gone far enough in improving the church.
Who are the Puritans ?
300
A series of laws passed mainly in the Southern colonies in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to defend the status of slaves and codify the denial of basic civil rights to them.
What are Slave codes ?
300
Act passed in 1661 by King Charles II ordering a stop to religious persecution in Massachusetts.
What is The Toleration Act ?
300
The term used to describe the formal end to British hostilities against France and Spain in February 1763.
What is the Treaty of Paris ?
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The intellectual and artistic flowering in Europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries sparked by a revival of interest in classical antiquity.
What is Renaissance ?
400
The first document of self-government in North America.
What is the Mayflower Compact ?
400
Items produced in the colonies and specifically mentioned in acts of Parliament that could be legally shipped from the colony of origin only to specified locations.
What are Enumerated goods ?
400
Intellectual movement stressing the importance of reason and the existence of discoverable natural laws.
What is the Enlightenment ?
400
Law passed in 1764 to raise revenue in the American colonies. It lowered the duty from 6 pence to 3 pence per gallon on this item imported into the colonies and increased the restrictions on colonial commerce.
What is the Sugar Act?
500
A German monk, former Catholic priest, professor of theology and key figure of a reform movement in sixteenth century Christianity, subsequently known as the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
500
Members of an offshoot branch of Puritanism. They believed that the Church of England was too corrupt to be reformed and hence were convinced they must break away from it to save their souls.
Who are the Separatists ?
500
Robert Walpole, prime minister of the king's government from 1721 to 1742, pursued a policy characterized through which any colonial rules and regulations deemed contrary to good business practice were simply ignored and not enforced.
What is Salutary neglect?
500
North American religious revival in the middle of the eighteenth century.
What is the Great Awakening ?
500
Law passed by Parliament in 1765 to raise revenue in America by requiring taxed, stamped paper for legal documents, publications, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?