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100
This Boston-based group tarred and feathered stamp tax collectors.
What is the Sons of Liberty?
100
This colony was founded by John Winthrop as a "city on a hill."
What is Massachusetts Bay Colony?
100
This Act placed lands west of the Appalachians under the control of the British Government.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
100
Several of the founding fathers including Jefferson embraced this belief that god had created the universe then left it alone.
What is Deism?
100
This European intellectual movement embraced science and rationality.
What is the Enlightenment?
200
This wayward cousin of Virginia's governor attacked native Powhatans and burned Jamestown before falling to disentary.
What is Nathaniel Bacon?
200
This hyphenated group of settlers chose the middle colonies after Ireland proved inhospitable to their religious beliefs.
What is the scots-irish
200
This court order allowed customs officers to search any vessel or dwelling they suspected of harboring smuggled goods.
What is a writ of assistance?
200
This Jamestown leader shook up the colony with military discipline after a disasterous first year.
Who is John Smith?
200
This episode of mass hysteria ended in the hanging of 20 people.
What is the Salem Witch Trials?
300
Women used this protest technique to resist the Tea Act.
What is boycott?
300
This religious group believing in equality, pacifism and the inspiration of the holy spirit settled in Pennsylvania.
What is the Quakers?
300
These duties on lead, glass, paint, paper and tea replaced the Stamp Act.
What is the Townshend Duties?
300
This policy allowing the colonies to grow and prosper independent of the motherland was replaced by mercantilism.
What is salutary neglect?
300
This colonial power successfully established trading relationships with natives north and west of the English colonies.
What is the French?
400
Led by Metacom, this Wampanoag rebellion ended in crushing defeat.
What is King Phillip's War?
400
She defied cogregationalist elders during the Antinomian controversy.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
400
Colonists resisted the Stamp Act in part because it was this kind of tax.
What is internal tax?
400
The Great Awakening was led by this charismatic English Preacher famous for fire and brimstone.
What is Whitefield? What is Edwards?
400
This Franklin character opposed tyranny.
Who is Silence Dolittle?
500
This native american chief continued to oppose English settlers in the Ohio River Valley even after the defeat of the French.
Who is Pontiac?
500
This founder of Connecticut believed all adult male landowners should be allowed to vote.
Who is Thomas Hooker?
500
The Intolerable Acts closed this port to trade.
What is Boston?
500
This system provided plantation owners with land and labor by offering 50 acres to anyone who paid the passage of a person to VA.
What is the headright system?
500
This turning point battle of the revolution stopped the British invasion from the North but cost Benedict Arnold a leg.
What is Saratoga?