Pre-Revolutionary Personalities
Inventor, Diplomat, Delegate to the 1st and 2nd Continental Congress, Philadelphia guy who wrote Poor Richard's Almanack
Who is Ben Franklin
These were often not enforced on the colonies because British officials could be easily bribed, but they started in the 1650s, as a way to raise revenue on exports and imports
What are the Navigation Acts
This region of the colonies was the most diverse
What are the Middle Colonies
This conflict led to the decline of indentured servitude in the colonies
Who is Bacon's Rebellion
This colony had the first elected assembly, the House of Burgesses
What is Virginia
This Quaker founded Pennsylvania
Who is William Penn
This was the British policy that colonists considered "good" because they were mostly left alone for the first 150 years by the British, and felt independent
What is salutary neglect
This colonial region was best known for shipbuilding and trade
What are the New England colonies
This conflict nearly led to the end of Boston and surrounding towns
What is King Philip's War
This Boston Puritan declared that the Massachusetts Bay Colony would be "A city upon a hill"
Who is John Winthrop
Who is Pope (Po-Pay)
The British created this colony in 1733 to provide a buffer zone between their colonies and Spanish Florida
What is Georgia
Charlestown became well known for rice cultivation, and was the most important city of this region
What are the Southern Colonies
This conflict led to the death of over 70 people, including the leader of the slaves, named Jemmy
What is the Stono Rebellion
A massive religious revival that swept through Britain and the American colonies during the 1730s and 1740s
What is the First Great Awakening
He helped turn Jamestown into a successful colony when he took over in 1607 with the mantra "He who doesn't work, doesn't eat?)
Who is John Smith
Nathanael Bacon hated this Virginia governor because he felt like he ignored western frontier landowners when they were being attacked by Indians
Who is William Berkeley
This region was known as the Breadbasket of the colonies
Who are the Middle Colonies
A series of conflicts that nearly caused the end of Jamestown, led by Pocahantas' father, the chief who was named Haunasenecaugh
What are the Anglo-Powhatan Wars
A European intellectual and philosophical movement during the 17th and 18th centuries that emphasized reason, science, and individual liberty over tradition and absolute authority
What is the Enlightenment
He was called King Philip, who led the Indians against the English in New England in the 1670s
Who is Metacom
The British often fought against the French over lands in North America. Name three wars that occurred between the two European powers before the French and Indian War
What is King William's War, Queen Anne's War, King George's War
After word reached Massachusetts that Parliament had driven the Catholic King James II from the throne, a coalition of Bostonians overthrew Edmund Andros, the man hand-picked by James II in 1685 to govern the Dominion of New England with THIS DOCUMENT
What is the Boston Declaration of Grievances
Who is John Casor
Not only did this law, “An Act Concerning Negroes and other Slaves 1664," ban interracial marriage, it was also among the first North American laws to describe enslavement as a permanent condition.