The survival of 60 out of 400 settlers in Virginia was a time period knows as what?
"Starving Time"
100
Who was Massachusetts Bay Colony's first governor?
John Winthrop
100
What social class was the highest on the social scale in the colonies?
White male farmers
100
What was the stable crop in Virginia and Maryland?
tobacco
200
In 1450, what Portuguese-invented could sail into the wind?
the Caravel
200
What was the first self-governmant in Virginia called?
House of Burgesses
200
What was the first attempt at a government in America?
Mayflower Compact
200
Where in the colonies did a group of adolescent girls claim to be bewitched by certain older women?
Salem, Massachusetts
200
In 1773, Parliament passed what act in order to crush North American trade with the French West Indies?
Molasses Act
300
What explorer arrived in Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, with the intention of stealing gold and other riches?
Herman Cortes
300
In the mid 17th century, what was the major crop on the Indian Islands.
Sugar
300
Who was the intelligent woman that challenged the Puritan orthodoxy?
Anne Hutchinson
300
Just eight years after Massachusetts was formed the colony established what college in 1636?
Harvard College
300
What was perhaps the most important manufacturing activity in the colonies?
Lumbering
400
What explorer explored the Southeast, and discovered the Mississippi River?
De Soto
400
In order to control the large number of slaves, what denied even the most fundamental rights to slaves?
Barbados Slave Code of 1661
400
The settlers of the Connecticut River Colony drafted a document, basically a constitution, known as what?
Fundamental Orders
400
What was the language that African Americans evolved on the Sea Islands of South Carolina's coast?
Gullah
400
In 1775 what were two of the most populous colonies in America?
Any two of the fallowing; Virginia, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Maryland
500
In 1609 the natives of New Mexico launched a rebellion known as what?
Popes Rebellion
500
Who reached Jamestown in 1610 and started the first Anglo-Powhatan War?
Lord De La Warr
500
What four colonies banded together to form the New England Confederation?
Connecticut, New Haven, Massachusetts, and Plymouth Colonies
500
Virginia and Maryland employed what system to encourage the importation of servant workers? Under its terms, whoever paid the passage of a laborer received the right to acquire 50 acres of land.
the Headright System
500
By 1775, how many colonies had royal governors appointed by the king?