Names
Husband of Pocahontas, father of the tobacco industry
Who is John Rolfe?
These two agricultural products served as the backbone of the southern mainland colonies controlled by England
What is tobacco and rice?
King Charles II created Carolina
1670
The first national park in the United States
What is Yellowstone?
The boat filled with English Separatists from Holland, who eventually sign an agreement that marks the first step towards self-government in the US
What is the Mayflower?
The Act of Toleration declared this to be the ruling for any person who denied the divinity of Jesus
What is penalty of death?
Passing of the Act of Toleration
1649
These 4 presidents can be found on Mount Rushmore
50 pts for each correct answer
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln
The name of the first representative government in Virginia
What is the House of Burgesses?
This legal precedent denied fundamental human rights to enslaved people and gave slaveholders virtually complete control over their laborers
What is the Barbados Slave Code of 1661?
At this time, Black Virginians (most of them enslaved) were roughly 14% of the population of the state
1650
This was Paul Revere's actual day job
What is a silversmith?
These eight aristocrats were granted rulership over Carolina by King Charles II
Who are the Lords Proprietors?
The English crown created this state in 1733 to act as a buffer between Spanish and French influences.
Daily Double: The two states that were under such influences
What is Georgia?
John Calvin of Geneva elaborated on reformist doctrine by adding the idea of predestination
1536
This was the first fast-food burger chain in the world, founded in Wichita, Kansas
What is White Castle?
The founder of the 4th colony, Maryland
Who is Lord Baltimore?
Calvinists that sought to rid the Church of England of its Roman rituals and creeds
Who are the Puritans?
John Winthrop became the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony at its founding
1630
This Floridian city is the oldest city established by the Europeans that still functions as a city
What is St. Augustine?