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100
Spanish explorer who, with the backing of Ferdinand V and Isabella I, discovered the North American continent on October 12,1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
A series of religious revivals swept through the colonies in the 1730s. Key players were Theodore Frelinghuysen, William and Gilbert Tenant, Jonathan Edwards, and George Whitefield.
What is the Great Awakening?
100
The joining of six sects of the Iroquoian family and of the Eastern Woodlands area. By the 1700s, the tribes in the confederacy were the Onondaga, Cayuga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, and Tuscarors. By combining they were a stronger force against the colonists.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
100
A concord among the New England colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Haven in the years from 1643-1684. The union was for the purpose of ensuring safety and peace between the colonies. It was used most effectively advising during King Phillip's War.
What is the New England Confederacy?
100
It was founded as a refuge for Quakers in 1681. The Quakers believed that an "inner-light" allowed them to be on a personal level with God. They did not experience a starving time which was very common for starting colonies. They started with a strong government.
What is the Pennsylvania Colony?
200
Mariner who explored the East coast of the United States and Nova Scotia under the commission of France in 1524. He was commissioned to claim new lands in the New World and find a route to China. He was the first European to enter New York Bay. His land claims were not colonized until the 17th century.
Who is Giovanni Verrazano?
200
Sermon about how one must have a personal faith and relationship with Jesus Christ to gain salvation instead of an afterlife in hell. The sermon also used the fury of the divine wrath to arouse religious fervor.
What is Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?
200
So-called war consisting of clumsy plundering by Massachusetts troops in 1637. The colonists eventually won the alliance of rival tribes and waged a ruthless campaign. The war tipped the balance of military power to the English, opening the way to New England’s settlement.
What is the Pequot War?
200
Publication written by Benjamin Franklin in 1732 that gained an immense following with its home remedies and practical wisdom.
What is Poor Richard's Almanac?
200
Colony founded in 1733 by a charter granted to James Oglethorpe. The colony started with a settlement in Savanna created by Oglethorpe as a debtor’s colony. The high ideals of Oglethorpe, such as bans on slavery and rum, slowed growth as large settlement did not occur until after slavery was brought to the colony.
What is the Georgia Colony?
300
The trading of biological organisms between continents. The diseases brought to the American continent that helped to nearly destroy the native populations is one example. Besides disease, many plants and animals have been brought to new environments with varying consequences.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
300
University that was founded in 1636 on a grant from the Mass. Bay Colony. The school was originally organized to educate ministers because of the scarcity of clergy and lack of an educational institution in the new colony. The university eventually developed a more secular format
What is Harvard University?
300
War between the Native American tribes of New England and British colonists that took place from 1675-1676. The war was the result of tension caused by encroaching white settlers. The chief of the Wampanoags lead the natives. The war ended Indian resistance in New England and left a hatred of whites.
What is King Phillip's War?
300
The constitution of the Connecticut colony that was established in 1639. Written by Thomas Hooker and similar to the government of Massachusetts Bay, it contained a preamble and 11 orders. Following the puritan ideal, it put the welfare of the community above that of individuals.
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
300
The first successful settlement in the Virginia colony founded in May, 1607. Harsh conditions nearly destroyed the colony but in 1610 supplies arrived with a new wave of settlers. The settlement became part of the Virginia Company of London in 1620.
What is Jamestown?
400
Grants that give a person the right to take labor in the form of slaves or any type of homage form a designated group of Indians. Christopher Columbus who was sailing for Spain and who was one of the first conquistadors also began this practice in Hispanolia.
What are encomiendas?
400
A group of Puritans who advocated total withdrawal from the Church of England and wanted the freedom to worship independently from English authority. They included the Pilgrims who migrated to America.
What are the Separatists?
400
Two opposing Indians tribes whose disunity lead both to destruction. One tribe was defeated by the colonists with the help of the other in 1713, and the other was itself defeated around 1715. Both tribes were scattered and soon disappeared.
What are the Tuscaroras and Yamasees?
400
Rebellion against the colonial government in Carolina in 1677. The rebellion was directed against the government’s acceptance of English trade laws. The rebellion succeeded in disposing the governor.
What is Culpeper's Rebellion?
400
A regular assembly of elected representatives that developed in the Virginia colony in the 1630’s. It was a bicameral legislature that was a model for our congress.
What is the House of Burgesses?
500
Portuguese explorer who was the first person to sail across the Pacific Ocean and to circumnavigate the globe. Sailing under a Spanish commission, he attempted to reach the Spice Islands. After crossing the Pacific, he was killed battling natives in the Philippines but two of his ships returned to Spain.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
500
Name given to the Puritan society that was to be created in the New World. The leader of the Puritan migration, John Winthrop planned to create a utopian society based on Puritanism that would have no class distinction and would stress the importance of community and church.
What is a City Upon a Hill?
500
Towns set up by puritan missionaries for Indian converts to spread puritan Christianity, the first of which, Natick, was founded in 1651.
What are praying towns?
500
Founder of Maryland who, in 1632, received a charter from King Charles I for a tract of land to the northeast of the colony of Virginia. It comprised the present-day states of Maryland and Delaware. He wrote the charter for the colony but died before he got it.
Who is George Calvert?
500
A business owned by investors through control of stocks. Examples operated in England and dealt with colonial markets in America. Such companies organized and supported the colonies through charters from the British government and while they worked with the government they made private profits.
What is the Joint Stock Company?