Age of Exploration
This economic class from the former "horizontal" society profited greatly from the Crusades and the resulting Age of Exploration.
What is the middle class?
Who is Captain John Smith?
The Plymouth Colony was absorbed in 1691 by this larger colony.
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
This religious group centered around the teachings of John Huss.
Who were the Moravians?
Also called the Methodist Revival, this period of spiritual revival sparked a willingness to preserve and fight for religious freedom.
What is the Great Awakening?
The place where Christopher Columbus landed (even though he believed it to be the Indies).
What is Cuba?
The first governing document in the New World, establishing a civil government for the good of the people.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This colony was founded by a Quaker who wanted to protect people of all religious backgrounds.
HINT: The same Quaker also founded Delaware to give this first colony access to the Atlantic coast.
What is Pennsylvania?
He wrote Poor Richard's Almanac and was a prominent inventor, statesman, scientist, and writer in colonial/Revolutionary America.
Who was Ben Franklin?
The fort near Pittsburgh that was built by Washington, then conquered by the French, and then was the most prominent battleground of the French and Indian War.
What is Fort Duquesne (or Fort Pitt)?
The feared king of the Aztec people who was conquered by Hernando Cortes.
Who was Montezuma II?
This uprising responded to the negligence of Governor William Berkeley and displayed the colonists' desire for a government willing to protect them.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
The last of the 13 colonies to be settled, this colony was built around Savannah by James Oglethorpe.
What is Georgia?
A shipping route that took rum from the colonies to Africa, slaves from Africa to the West Indies, and sugars/fruits from the West Indies to the colonies, for example.
What is a triangular trade route?
The area between Ohio, West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania where the rivalries between France and Britain exploded into a series of wars.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
The name given to the French territory by Robert Cavalier de La Salle, spanning much of the inland of the present-day United States.
What is Louisiana?
Also called the "Lost Colony," this English settlement disappeared with barely a trace soon after it was established by Sir Walter Raleigh.
What is Roanoke?
This Middle Colony passed hands from the Dutch (who built the colony with a patroon system), to the Swedish (who introduced log cabins), to the Dutch again, and finally to the English (who named it after King James II).
What is New York?
He explored the Appalachian Mountains (via the Cumberland Gap) and much of present-day Kentucky.
Who was Daniel Boone?
The military group in which George Washington got his start and advanced to the rank of Captain.
Who were the Virginia Rangers?
Religious and economic tension between Spain and England eventually led to Sir Francis Drake's victory over this seemingly unbeatable naval force.
What is the "Invincible Armada?"
This Virginian assembly was the first governing body in the New World, and was made up of elected delegates who advised the governor and assisted in lawmaking.
What is the House of Burgesses?
According to legend, the Connecticut colonists hid their charter inside an oak tree to avoid being a part of this union created by King James II and Sir Edmund Andros.
What is the Dominion of New England?
The most common textbook used in the schools of colonial America.
What was the New England Primer?
They were the main actions of the British government that violated the rights of the colonists as English citizens (4).
What were the Proclamation of 1763, the Stamp Act, the Quartering Act, and the Declaratory Act?