Exploration
Cortez led this group in the takeover of Tenochtitlan.
Who were Conquistadors?
Early colonial self-government was exercised in the South by way of these.
What is the House of Burgess?
These Puritans broke away from the Church of England and settled at Plymouth Bay in 1620.
Who are Seperatists?
Of the 13 original colonies, this is how many allowed slavery as a legal practice.
What is 13?
This group who founded PA is known for their compassion and openness as well as for their oats.
Who are the Quakers?
These 2 powerful empires controlled S. & Central America prior to Columbus's landing in the New World.
Who were the Incas and the Aztecs?
This famous dictum by John Smith likely saved Jamestown settlers during the “starving years”.
What is "he who shall not work shall not eat"?
When John Winthrop settled his “City Upon a Hill” in 1630, he unwittingly set this in motion.
What is the Great Puritan Migration?
His case might be primarily responsible for eventually getting the 1st Amendment in the Bill of Rights.
Who is John Peter Zenger?
This group was a threat to the traditional Puritan ministry because of their exuberant sermons during the First Great Awakening.
Who are New Light Preachers?
Arguably, the most consequential outcome of the Columbian Exchange on the movements and settlement patterns of NA was this.
What is the introduction of the horse?
Nathaniel Bacon led former indentured servants on a raid of this city, in this year.
What is 1676 because Gov. Berkley wouldn’t defend the frontier.
Thomas Jefferson called these, “the best school of political liberty the world ever saw”.
What are New England Town Halls/Meetings?
After giving this sermon, Jonathon Edwards scared many a Christian back to the Church.
What is “sinners in the hands of an angry God”?
Mercantilism often stifled colonial shipping and trade because the policy led Britain to enact these.
What are the Navigation Laws?
After the Spanish moved northward into New Mexico and attempted to assimilate his people, this N.A. led them in a revolt.
Who was Popé?
Early financing for settlement of the Chesapeake came from this revenue source / mechanism.
What is a joint stock company?
The Half-Way Covenant was a direct result of this.
What is waning Puritan Church membership as a result of geography/capitalism?
Pontiac’s Rebellion was a major influence on Britain’s enactment of this in the immediate aftermath of the F & I War.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Of the three colonial areas, women probably had the greatest autonomy in this region while having the least autonomy here.
What are the South & the North?
This is the primary reason North American Native Americans were vulnerable to European conquest.
What is lack of united, sophisticated, organized societies that had no common language or culture?
Lord Baltimore was probably influenced by self-preservation when he supported his colony’s passage of this.
What is the Act of Toleration?
Connecticut is credited with having the first written constitution in American history as a result of their creation of this.
What is are the Fundemental Orders of CT?
The March of the Paxton Boys and Regulator Movement were led by this fiercely independent and self-reliant group of backcountry dwellers of Appalachia.
Who are the Scots-Irish?
This group created feudal estates along the Hudson River known Patroonships before being defeated in War by the Duke of York.
Who are the Dutch?