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Who was John Smith? 

Who was a colonist and leader of Jamestown? 

100

Who were the Pilgrims?

Who were a Separatist group that cut all ties with the Church of England and left England to escape persecution? 

100

Who was Peter Stuyvesant? 

Who is director general who led the New Netherland colony beginning in 1647?

100

What was salutary neglect? 

What was a policy in which Britain interfered very little in colonial affairs?

100

What were slave codes?

What were laws to control slaves? 

200

Who were indentured servants? 

Who were colonists who reached America by working for free for other people who had paid for their journeys? 

200

Who were the Puritans?

Who were a Protestant group that wanted to reform, or purify, the Church of England?

200

Who was William Penn? 

Who was a Quaker leader who founded the Pennsylvania colony?

200

What was triangular trade?

What was a system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa?

200

What was a town meeting?

What was assembly in which colonists decided issues and made laws?

300

What was Bacon’s Rebellion? 

What was an uprising led by Nathaniel Bacon against high taxes burning Jamestown to the ground? 

300

Who are immigrants? 

Who are people who have left the country of their birth to live in another country? 

300

Who were Quakers (Society of Friends)? 

Who were a religious group that believed in the equality of men and women before God; supported nonviolence and religious tolerance?

300

What was the Great Awakening? 

What was religious movement in the colonies during the 1730's and 1740's? 

300

What is the name given to the voyage of slaves from Africa to America?

What is the middle passage?

400

What was the Toleration Act of 1649? 

What was an act that made limiting the religious rights of Christians a crime?

400

What was the Mayflower Compact? 

What is a legal contract male passengers on the Mayflower signed agreeing to have fair laws to protect the general good? 

400

What are staple crops? 

What are crops that are always needed, such as wheat, barley, and oats? 

400

What was the Enlightenment?

What was a movement during the 1700's that spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society? 

400

How was the treatment of enslaved Africans different under English rule than it was under the rule of the Dutch?

What is Enslaved Africans lived in harsh conditions under English rule?

500

Who was Olaudah Equiano? 

Who was a former slave who wrote down his experiences?

500

Who was John Winthrop? 

Who was the leader of Puritans who left England for Massachusetts seeking religious freedom? 

500

What was the first town on Manhattan Island?

What was New Amsterdam?

500

Who was John Locke? 

Who was a philosopher who thought that people had natural rights?

500

Who was Pocahontas?

Who was a a Powhatan Indian who married Jamestown colonist John Rolfe?