The name of the first permanent English settlement in North America
What is Jamestown?
100
was the name given to those Separatists who founded Plymouth Colony
What is the Pilgrims?
100
the name of the legislative body in Great Britain. It is composed of the House of Commons and the House of Lords
What is Parliament?
100
these were mercantilistic laws passed by Parliament that regulated trade with her colonies in North America
What are the Navigation Acts?
100
the name given to the fourth and final conflict between Great Britain and France for control of North America. It lasted from 1754 to 1763.
What is the French and Indian War?
200
refers to people who agreed to work 4 to 7 years in return for passage to North America
What is an indentured servant?
200
was the name given to the Society of Friends, a religious group who believed that everyone had a divine "Inner light"
What is the Quakers?
200
refers to an intellectual movement in which people believed that the world is governed by fixed mathematical laws thta can be understood through reason
What is the Enlightenment?
200
was a leader of the Enlightenment who believed that truth can be obtained through experimentation and reason. He invented the lightening rod, bifocals , and a more efficient stove.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
this young Virginian led a small band of soldiers against the French in the Ohio Valley
Who is George Washington?
300
was the name given to those Protestants who hoped to remove Catholic rituals and teachings from the Church of England
What is the Puritans?
300
the agreement to set up a government that would affect all men equally who were planning to settle in Plymouth
What is the Mayflower Compact?
300
refers to a tax placed on imports into a country
What is a duty?
300
is the name of English colonial policy between 1688 and 1763 in which England relaxed its enforcement of most mercantilist regulations in return for the continued economic loyalty of the colonies
What is salutary neglect?
300
this Native American leader led raids against British forts in the Ohio River Valley after the British victory
Who is Pontiac?
400
refers to a way to attract settlers to Virginia by offering 50 acres of land to anyone who paid their way to Virginia
What is the headright system?
400
the region where civilized society meets the wilderness
What is the frontier?
400
refers to an economic policy in which a natin-state tried to increase its wealth and power by gaining gold and silver and maintaining a favorable balance of trade
What is mercantilism?
400
the term for a country with internationally recognized borders in which all the citizens share the same culture and collective memory
What is a nation-state?
400
the British used these to defeat the Native American tribes
that were fighting against them
What is smallpox-infected blankets?
500
It was called "brown gold"
What is tobacco?
500
was an English Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania
Who is William Penn?
500
refers to a religious revival in the 1730s and 1740s in which people were called to rededicate themselves to God
What is the Great Awakening?
500
refers to the voyage of African slaves across the Atlantic to the West Indies and North America
What is the middle passage?
500
was the name of an act of Parliament that sought to prevent further conflict between Native americans and British settlers. It did so by prohibiting settlement of America west of the Appalachian Mountains.