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100

This man was granted a large tract of land which is modern day Pennsylvania, where Quakers settled. 

Who is William Penn?

100

These people were pacifists that believed both women and men could serve as clergy, and believed all people had an "inner light".

Who are the Quakers?
100

The journey for Africans sold into slavery to the New World.

What is the Middle Passage?

100

What three things saved Jamestown?

Women, tobacco, and a representative govt.

100
How many voyages did Columbus make for Spain?
Four
200

This man was appointed as a Royal Governor of the Dominion of New England, where Charles II reorganized several colonies into a new Royal province. He was an unpopular governor who was eventually run out of the colonies.

Who is Edmund Andros?

200

Acts that mandated colonists shipped goods only on English ships that sailed to English ports, and colonists must buy only English goods.

What are the Navigation Acts?

200
A large slave uprising in South Carolina in 1739 that was quickly suppressed and led to more stringent controls of slaves by plantation owners and society in general.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
200
Where were the creoles born?
America
200
What was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact?
This document established laws for the general good of all the people in the colony.
300

This man led a revolution against the Dominion of New England. This revolution highlighted tensions between upper and lower classes in the Colonies.

Who is Jacob Leisler?
300

A royal grant of English land given to an individual, who could rule them as he wished, as long as it was within English Law.

What are proprietorships?

300

This was the overthrow of Charles II in England in 1688 by the Protestant Prince William of Orange.

What is the Glorious Revolution?
300
Where did the Spanish settle in North America?
The borderlands- from Florida to California
300
How did the Pilgrims survive?
Native Americans helped them
400

This man's writing inspired several revolutions, including the Glorious Revolution, as well as the American Revolution. His work was based on the idea that government is based on people's consent, and people have certain unalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty, and property.

Who is John Locke?
400

This referred to the British policy of relaxing rule of the English Colonies as long as they were profitable, and was supported by British philosopher Edmund Burke.

What is salutary neglect?

400

The system that limited the monarchy's power by using a Declaration of Rights and instituting some checks upon the Crown following the fall of Charles II in the Glorious Revolution.

What is a Constitutional Monarchy?
400
Where did the French settle in North America?
Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River, Quebec, Miss. River
400
Who was at the top of the social class in New Spain?
Peninsulares
500

This Protestant Dutch Prince who was married to Charles II's daughter, overthrowing the king in what is called the Glorious Revolution.

Who is William of Orange?
500

A new agricultural and commercial system that greatly benefited Britain with increased trade and goods flowing from the West Indies and the Colonies into Britain.

What is the South Atlantic System?
500

A long period of war that Britain entered into in 1689 to 1815, which included seven major wars.

What is the Second Hundred Years' War?

500
What did Europeans bring to America that destroyed the Aztecs and Incas?
Disease
500
What was the reason for settlement at Plymouth?
Religious Freedom