Early History
Name given to the landmass people from Asia passed over to reach the Americas.
Beringia
The first English attempt at colonization in the Virginia area in 1585 was in
Roanoke
Indian policy in this colony can be best described as most fair. This colony is also considered the best advertised.
Pennsylvania.
Chief Powhatan had Captain ___ kidnapped in order to impress Smith with his power and show the Indian's desire for peace.
John Smith
These laws prohibited "ungodly revelers" including stage plays, playing cards, dice, games, & excessive hilarity.
What is Blue Laws
What mountain range was probably created before the continental separation, approximately 350 million years ago?
Appalachian Mountains
Considered the most religious tolerant colony for Catholics.
Maryland
The institution of ____ allowed the European governments to give Indians to colonists if they promised to Christianize them.
What is encomienda
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
The Dominican Friar ___ is best known for speaking out against the horrors of the encomienda system on Native Americans.
Who is Bartolomé de Las Casas
The size and sophistication of Native American civilizations in Mexico and South America can be attributed to the development of this.
Agriculture
The ____ allowed the children of unconverted existing members to be baptized but not full members of the church.
What is Half-Way Covenant
Arrange the following events in chronological order: the founding of (A) Georgia, (B) the Carolinas, (C) Virginia, and (D) Maryland.
C, D, B, A
This individual started a colony at Roanoke Island & was mysteriously abandoned in the 1580s.
Walter Raleigh
The Iroquois leader who helped his nation revive its old customs was
What is Handsome Lake.
Native American (Indian) civilization was least highly developed in what part of the Americas?
North America
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
One of the traits that made this group unpopular in England was their refusal to do military service.
Quaker
This "sea dog" plundered the treasure ships of the Spanish Main.
Francis Drake
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.
Stono Rebellion
The ____ was able to menace its Native American and European neighbors because of its military alliances, sustained by political and organizational skills.
Iroquois Confederacy
A peace settlement ended the ____ War in 1614 by the marriage of Pocahontas to the colonist John Rolfe.
First Anglo-Powhatan War
This rebellion, an ill-starred & bloody insurgence rocked New York City from 1689-1691 between lordly landholders & aspiring merchants.
What is Leisler's Rebellion
This adventurer tried but failed to establish a colony in Newfoundland.
Humphrey Gilbert
This system in both Virginia & Maryland encouraged the important of servant workers.
What is the Head-right System