Colonial era 1
The first settled colony, (named after a British Queen Elizabeth).
What is Virginia?
Incentive for settlement which allowed you to get 50 acres of land for every person you brought over to the Virginia Company's colony.
What is the "headright" system?
In 1676 this man lead a rebellion against the Royal Governor of Virginia.
Who was Nathaniel Bacon?
The richest man in the colonies who was named to head the Continental Army.
Who was George Washington?
The Articles of Confederation which had been designed during the revolution for coordination of the colonies in the war proved inadequate in the 1780s. So, leaders gathered in this city (once again) to discuss the creation of a new national government.
What is Philadelphia (where the Quaker idea of reciprocal liberty mirrored the liberal democratic ideals of the age of Enlightenment)?
The "freedom" of a white Englishman or European settler to enslave someone, according to historian David H. Fischer who tracked this concept from medieval Europe to America of the 1600s.
What is "hegemonic liberty"?
A person brought over to the colony from British Isles who was obliged to work for a set number of years before being granted land and liberty.
What is an "indentured servant"?
In 1675 in Connecticut and Rhode Island these people rose up to oppose the expanding English settlements taking over their lands. They were defeated in a bloody war.
Who were Wapanoags and Montauk, aka the Pequot nation?
This colony (and then state all the way to 1865) had the highest percentage (>60%) of enslaved peoples.
What is South Carolina?
What the design of government in three parts by Montesquieu, and adopted by the "framers" of the Constitution, is called.
What is the "separation of powers"?
Name of the first settlement in Virginia and the first settlement in Massachusetts Bay, about 13 years later.
What is Jamestown and what is Plymouth?
The first Blacks from Africa arrive by accident in English-speaking Virginia (due to storm that blows a small Dutch slave ship up the James River).
What is 1619?
By 1750, still the colonial era, the largest American "city"
What was Philadelphia? (with roughly 15,000 people, equivalent to a very poor attendance at Orioles game)
The number of enslaved persons in 1690 in the South was 13,000. By 1750 this number was.....
What is between 200,000 and 220,000?
The fact and idea that both states and the national (or federal) government can share powers and have unique powers....that sovereignty can be divided in this way.
What is federalism?
These people were a Protestant group that started Philadelphia in the mid 1600s.
Who are the Quakers? or "Friends"
The crop that finally got the Virginia colony of 1600s out of the red (losses) and into the black (profitability) by about 1630.
What is tobacco?
In 1765, the British decided the colonies should pay more in taxes and fees to help pay for the running of the empire and the debt from this war.
What is the French and Indian War?
Under pressure from popular rebellions and growing public sentiment, the Second Continental Congress signed this document on July 2, 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The "upper" house of the US government with six year terms.
What is the Senate?
Name of the "princess" of the Powhatan peoples of tidal regions of lower Chesapeake and rivers in Virginia who married settler John Rolfe and who later died in England.
Who was Mato-aka, or Pocahantas?
The name of these religiously-minded Protestants mainly from East Anglia in England who start the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1620s.
Who are the Puritans?
The Stamp Act of 1765 was successfully opposed by this.
What is the active, united actions of roughly 10% colonists at ports through protest, violence, and widespread boycott?
A great victory in autumn of 1777 in upstate New York for the Patriots which helped convince the Kingdom of France to provide aid to the Americans.
What is Burgoyne's defeat at Saratoga?
The body that orginates all taxation amd all spending legislation since it is the most numerous and its members have to seek re-election every two years, making it "closest" to the people.
What is the House of Representatives?