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New World Beginnings
Planting of English America
Settling the Colonies
Individuals
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The widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the American & Afro-Eurasian hemispheres in the 15th and 16th centuries, related to European colonization and trade is known as:
What is THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
100
First permanent English colony in North America was:
What is JAMESTOWN
100

Indian policy in this colony can be best described as most fair & the best advertised?

What is Pennsylvania

100

Courtier whose colony at Roanoke Island was mysteriously abandoned in the 1580s

Walter Raleigh

100
These laws prohibited "ungodly revelers" including stage plays, playing cards, dice, games, & excessive hilarity.
What is Blue Laws
200

What mountain ranges was probably created before the continental separation, approximately 350 million years ago?

What is Applachian

200
What nation did the British acquire New York from?
What is the NETHERLANDS (DUTCH)
200

The ____ allowed the children of unconverted existing members to be baptized but not full members of the church.

What is Half-Way Covenant

200

English adventurer who tried but failed to establish a colony in Newfoundland

Humphrey Gilbert

200
This forerunner of the modern corporation enabled a considerable number of investors, called "adventurers" to pool their capital together to limit risk.
What is a JOINT STOCK COMPANY
300
Which European empire's threatening expeditions and settlements in the South and West prompted Spain to establish a few settlement in Texas beginning in 1716?
What is FRANCE
300

Arrange the following events in chronological order: the founding of (A) Georgia, (B) the Carolinas, (C) Virginia, and (D) Maryland.

What is C, D, B, A

300

One of the traits that made this group unpopular in England was their refusal to do military service.

What is QUAKER

300

Chief ___ had Captain John Smith kidnapped in order to impress Smith with his power and show the Indian's desire for peace.

Powhatan

300

Considered the most religious tolerant colony for catholics.

Maryland

400

Name of the land mass that joined Asia & North America before the end of the last Ice Age.

What is Beringia

400
The Dominican Friar ___ is best known for speaking out against the horrors of the encomienda system on Native Americans.
What is Bartolomé de Las Casas
400

Arrange the following in chronological order: the founding of (A) New York, (B) Massachusetts Bay, (C) Pennsylvania, and (D) Plymouth.

What is D, B, A, C

400

Known as "sea dog" he plundered the treasure ships of the Spanish Main for England.

Francis Drake

400
This slave rebellion in 1739 in South Carolina consisted of more than 50 resentful slaves who tried to march to Spanish Florida only to be stopped by the local militia.
What is the STONE REBELLION
500
The institution of ____ allowed the European governments to give Indians to colonists if they promised to Christianize them.
What is encomienda
500
The Iroquois leader who helped his nation revive its old customs was
What is Handsome Lake.
500
Who led the Dutch city of New Amsterdam before being handed a petition from the merchants when the British arrived to take the city & had to give it up without a fight?
Who is Peter Stuyvesant
500

This individuals rebellion, was an ill-starred & bloody insurgence that rocked New York City from 1689-1691 between lordly landholders & aspiring merchants.

What is Leisler's Rebellion

500
This system in both Virginia & Maryland encouraged the important of servant workers.
What is the Head-right System