1st English Settlements
This lost colony was established by Sir Walter Raleigh and James White
Roanoke
Includes what four colonies?
MA, RI, CT, NH
Which 4 colonies are in this region?
NY, NJ, DE, PA
What 5 colonies are in this region?
VA, MD, NC, SC, GA
Imaginary line that ran up the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation of 1763
The Great Awakening occurred in response to this European movement which emphasized secular logic and science over religion and faith.
The Enlightenment
This tribe was initially friendly to European settlers and even helped the Pilgrims to survive in their new home.
Wampanoags
The Enlightenment was a European, philosophical movement that favored secular reasoning and science over what?
Faith and religion
King James IV gave the Virginia Company to establish this colony in 1607.
Jamestown
What kind of geography (soil, terrain) did this region have?
Coasts, thin stony soil, plenty of trees
What types of jobs were found here?
Skilled and unskilled labor, farming, trade
What kind of crop is sold for money and not food? Give an example.
Cash crop; i.e. tobacco, rice, cotton, sugar, indigo
This act stated that Colonists had to house British Soldiers.
Quartering Act
During the Great Awakening, people were encouraged to seek and know God on their own instead of relying on these people.
Ministers, pastors, clergy
This was the daughter of Chief Powhatan who married John Rolfe and supposedly saved John Smith's life.
Pocahontas
John Locke, an English Enlightenment thinker, argued for a government that acknowledged and respected these three natural rights.
Life, Liberty, and Property
What geographical problems did Jamestown face?
(Think location, animals, and water quality)
Marshes, mosquitoes, & salty water
Who first settled in modern day Massachusetts?
Pilgrims (Separatists/Puritans)
What type of climate did the Middle Colonies have?
Moderate (had all four seasons)
What is the type of worker is like a slave but did have limited right as well as the opportunity to eventually be considered free?
Indentured servant
This Act closed Boston's Ports to Shipping....
Coercive Acts (Intolerable)
What two, broad factions appeared as a response to the Great Awakening?
(Hint: One embraced the new changes from the revival. The other kept to the old ways.)
New Lights
Old Lights
This was a uprising led by small farmers and white settlers in Virginia's western frontier. They were responding to attacks from Native Americans and political favoritism toward plantation owners.
Bacon's Rebellion
Montesquieu believed the powers of government should divided into these three branches of government.
Executive, legislative, and judicial
What was the name of the document that would govern the Pilgrims at Plymouth?
Mayflower Compact
Why did the Puritans come to America?
Seeking religious freedom
The Dutch originally settled in New York to trade what with the American Indians?
Furs
Southern plantation slaves came from where?
Africa or W. Africa
Colonists response to The Townshend Acts...
First Continental Congress (Protest, boycotts etc.)
The Great Awakening was an example of this religious event in which multiple people and places have spiritual experiences and a new fervor for their faith.
Revival
This violent conflict was in response to encroachments made by European settlers on Native American lands. Ironically, one of the tribes fighting the Europeans was the once friendly Wampanoag tribe.
King Philip's War
This French Enlightenment philosopher believed individuals entered into a social contract to form a government that would protect their rights.
Rousseau
The Pilgrims went to the New World for religious freedom. What Protestant sect did they belong to?
Separatists
Who could vote in the Massachusetts colony?
Male, church members
The founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, created a colony to protect what religious group?
Quakers
What religious group initially settled in Maryland?
Roman Catholics or Catholics
Give an example of colonial unity prior to or during the Revolutionary war...
Answers will vary... Sons of Liberty, Continental congresses, etc..
This itinerant preacher upset local clergymen, but his outdoor sermons were so moving that he even captivated the attentions of slaves, Native Americans, & religious skeptic Ben Franklin.
George Whitefield
This tribe had mixed relations with the Jamestown settlers which eventually led to two short wars, one in 1609-1614 and the other in 1622-1626.
(There are two acceptable answers, but just need one.)
Powhatans
Algonquins
This early Enlightenment thinker still held to his religious beliefs that people were basically bad. To curb their wickedness, a strong monarchic government was needed.
(Hint: He named his book after a dragon-like creature from the Bible called a Leviathan)
Thomas Hobbes