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Welcome to the Colonies?
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A piece of the pie.
100
The poor migrants paid for their passage to the colonies by agreeing to work for 4-7 years.
Who are indentured servants?
100
This religious movement swept through the colonies during the mid-eighteenth century.
What is the Great Awakening?
100
Angered by the British invasion of their lands in the Ohio River Valley, Native Americans tried and failed to capture these three British posts.
What are Detroit, Niagara, and Ft. Pitt?
100
This document restricted the king's ability to nobles and guaranteed due process.
What is the Magna Carta?
100
This fort built by the French in Western Pennsylvania was intended to discourage British colonists from moving into the Ohio River Valley.
What is Fort Duquesne?
200
This group of people were descendants of Protestant Scots who had settled in Northern Ireland. They were known as the Scotch-Irish in the colonies.
Who are the Ulster Scots?
200
In his well-known sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," this preacher urged people to ask for forgiveness.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
200
This war was known as the French and Indian War in the colonies.
What is the Seven Years' War?
200
This famous poet was the first African American to publish a book of poems.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
200
This agreement signed in 1763 effectively ended the French and Indian War and removed France from North America.
What is Treaty of Paris?
300
In Pennsylvania, this original group of people eventually became a minority to the German and Scottish immigrants.
Who are the Quakers?
300
This religious group dominated politics in New England, establishing republics with their own governors.
Who are the Puritans?
300
In 1759, the British capture this French fort at the entrance of the St. Lawrence River, clearing the way for an attack on Quebec.
What is Louisbourg?
300
This document prevented colonists from settling lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
300
With the capture of this French city, the British forced the French to surrender the rest of Canada, including forts around the Great Lakes.
What is Montreal?
400
Having survived the Middle Passage, this West African wrote a memoir of describing his trip.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
400
He was a celebrated preacher who studied at Oxford and helped launch the Great Awakening in the colonies.
Who is George Whitefield?
400
In 1689, plotters overthrew King James II in a coup known as this.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
400
This document stated that the English monarch could not keep a standing army during times of peace.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
400
This Enlightenment thinker believed that natural rights came from God, not from Monarchs.
Who is John Locke?
500
This name was given to escaped slaves that hid in the forests and swamps of the West Indies and the Carolinas.
What are maroons?
500
An open Catholic, this monarch tried to rule without Parliament.
Who is King James II?
500
The Navigation Acts in the 1600s initially hurt the colonists' dependence on goods from this country.
What is Holland (Netherlands)?
500
In 1734, this man was jailed and tried for libel after his newspaper printed articles criticizing the English-appointed governor of New York.
Who is John Peter Zenger?
500
Though sharing power, these monarchs gave most of their power away over time.
Who are King William and Queen Mary?