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Southern Colonies
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Life in the Colonies
Conflict in the Colonies
100
Name the first Europeans to reach North America
What are the Vikings?
100
Another name for Separatists (people who wanted to separate from the Church of England)?
What are the Pilgrims?
100
This Dutch colony was originally called New Netherland, but then the English took it over and renamed it. What did they change its name to?
What is New York?
100
meeting where people talk about issues with others, used today
What is a town meeting or town hall meeting?
100
slogan used by upset colonists who didnt want more taxes
What is "No Taxation Without Representation!"
200
Which Europeans fighting for control in North America during the 1600s? (Hint: name four)
What are the English, French, Spanish, Dutch?
200
Why did Puritans want to purify the Church of England?
What is because it was too much like the Catholic Church?
200
Religious group in Pennsylvania who believed in nonviolence and religious freedom? (Hint: think oatmeal)
What are the Quakers?
200
system of creating and maintaining wealth through trade and colonizing new lands for resources
What is mercantilism?
200
Why were the colonists taxed extra?
What is because England was in debt from the French and Indian War and from paying soldiers to protect the colonists from Natives
300
Name the four Southern colonies?
What are Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina?
300
What wars were Professor Taylor's colonial relatives involved in?
What are the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War?
300
This man founded the colony Pennsylvania
Who is William Penn?
300
laws that made it illegal to sell certain items and illegal to ship goods on anything other than an english ship
What are the Navigation Acts?
300
Name three laws that placed extra taxes on the colonists AND name the goods that were taxed with each law
What is the Sugar Act (tax on sugar and molasses), the Stamp Act (tax on documents, newspapers, playing cards), and the Townshend Acts (tax on lead, paints, and tea)
400
Give me three things that would happen to an indentured servant after they served their term of service?
What is they would likely die, return to England, or become poor whites?
400
Name the New England colonies AND describe their economy?
What are Massachusetts Bay Colony, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut AND New England was known for fishing and shipbuilding
400
Name all the Middle colonies
What are New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey?
400
first Native american saint, made a saint in October 2012 (her face was scarred but became beautiful upon her death)?
Who is Saint Kateri (she is alive in Heaven right now)
400
Half-Indian, half-African American who was shot at the Boston Massacre
Who is Crispus Attucks?
500
Why was racism promoted in the colonies through the use of laws?
What is the wealthy whites who had power wanted to make sure laws were created that encouraged poor whites to hate African Americans because they feared poor whites would band together with African Americans and overthrow the wealthy whites?
500
Name of the Wampanoag Native chief who was present at the First Thanksgiving in 1621?
Who is Massasoit?
500
This city becomes the capital of Pennsylvania and eventually the capital of the United States for awhile? (Hint: means "city of brotherly love")
What is Philadelphia
500
What is the major result of the French and Indian War (1754-1763)?
What is the British gain a huge section of North America, and the French are basically kicked out of North America?
500
Name of the laws that closed Boston Harbor, forced colonists to house British troops, and pushed the colonists one step closer to war with england
What are the Intolerable Acts (1774)?