Blended
The goal of this act was to combat widespread smuggling of molasses in New England
The Sugar Act
Governor of Virginia between 1660 to 1677
Sir William Berkeley
First colonial legislature
House of Burgesses
the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, crops, etc. between the old word and the new
Columbian Exchange
Early French explorers, and later English, sought a a mythical waterway passing through the North American continent to Asia
Northwest Passage
What year was New Netherland handed over to the English?
1664
Who was tasked with building a defensive wall along the northern edge of New Amsterdam (present Wall Street)?
African slaves
In Spanish America, grants of land and the use Native labor upon it
encomienda system
the largest Mississippian settlement
Cahokia
the first permanent European settlement in the Southwest
Santa Fe (1610)
This act received strong resistance from colonial elites, merchants, and common colonists
the Stamp Act
Approximately .... - Native Americans were forced into slavery throughout the southern colonies between 1670 and 1715
24,000 -51,000
Colonists who could pay their own way to Carolina were granted 150 acres per family member
Headright System
French Protestants were called...
Huguenots
In 1581, this country broke away from the Hapsburgs and won a reputation as the freest of the new European nations
the Netherlands
On this date, the American Revolutionary War was officially over.
September 3, 1783
Which English philosopher argued that the mind was a blank blank slate and that individuals were formed primarily by their environment?
John Locke
An imperial action proclaimed by king George III that forbade settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains
The Royal Proclamation of 1763
Who were the Hessians?
German mercenaries
In Virginia, the royal governor, who offered freedom to “all indentured servants, Negros, and others” if they would leave their enslavers and join the British.
Lord Dunmore
It is estimated that between .... and ... formerly enslaved people deserted their enslavers during the Revolutionary War.
30,000 and 100,000
This Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress was named commander in chief of the Continental Army
George Washington
A concept that the power and authority of the government derived from the people.
popular sovereignty
This treaty turned a colonial rebellion into a global war
A Treaty of Amity and Commerce
In 1619, two very important events occurred in Jamestown
the establishment of the House of Burgesses, and the arrival of 20 African slaves