This area was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
100
This religious group wanted to purify or reform the Anglican Church.
Who are the Puritans?
100
These people, also known as the Society Of Friends, believed that men and women were equal in the eyes of God.
Who are the Quakers?
100
These events were held so that people could talk about and decide on issues of local interest.
What are town meetings?
100
This committee's members shared ideas and information about the new British laws and how to challenge them.
What are Committees of Correspondence.
200
This man took control of the first North American colony and built a fort in 1608.
Who is John Smith?
200
After their first stop in the Netherlands, this group of people moved to the colonies to escape persecution.
Who are the Pilgrims?
200
This Quaker man founded a colony in which he limited this own power and promised religious freedom to all Christians.
Who is William Penn?
200
This act reduced the powers of the English Monarch.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
200
This act required colonists to pay for an official seal when they bought paper items.
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?
300
This term means the power or right to rule.
What is authority?
300
These people leave their country of birth to live in another country.
What are immigrants?
300
These kinds of crops are those that are always needed.
What are staple crops?
300
Taking place during the 1700s, this movement spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society.
What is Enlightenment?
300
This act placed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
400
These people signed a contract to work for 4-7 years in exchange for a spot on the ships that were sailing to the colonies.
Who are indentured servants?
400
This legal contract promised that the people on a ship of the same name would have fair laws to protect the general good.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
Originally called New Netherland, this area attracted people from all over the world. It is now known as "The Big Apple".
What is New York/New Jersey?
400
This system was used to trade goods and slaves among the Americas, Britain, and Africa.
What is triangular trade.
400
This incident involved the death of three men and was later used as propaganda, a story giving only one side of the argument.
What is the Boston Massacre?
500
This event happened when one person attacked and burned Jamestown after being angry about the government's policies regarding trade with Native Americans.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
500
This point, marked by a rock, was the landing point of the Pilgrims.
What is Plymouth Rock?
500
This man lead the colony of New York/New Jersey, holding the position of Director General.
Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
500
This man gave dramatic sermons telling sinners to seek forgiveness for their sins or face punishment in Hell forever
Who is Jonathan Edwards
500
During this event, colonists disguised themselves as Indians and dumped over 340 tea chests into the harbor.