People
Led a Virginia militia in the French & Indian War; gained valuable leadership experience
Who is George Washington?
Peter Minuit bought this piece of land for $24 from local Native Americans.
What was Manhattan Island?
Year Jamestown is founded.
What is 1607?
The 2 European nations who dominated early exploration.
What are Portugal and Spain?
The New England Colonies. (4)
What are Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut?
Millions of captured and enslaved Africans are taken to locations through the Americas, causing this scattering of a people.
What is African diaspora?
Key figure in the Enlightenment; wrote Common Sense
Who Thomas Paine?
"The Lost Colony" established by Sir Walter Raleigh.
What is Roanoke Island?
Thomas Paine published Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence was written in this year.
What is 1776?
The acts that required the English colonists to pass their goods through English ports, required them to use English ships, and only allowed them to trade with England.
What were the Navigation Acts?
The capital of Connecticut.
What is Hartford?
This document was signed giving the British possession of all French territory east of the Mississippi River, while the Spanish took possession of the territory west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1763?
Prominent individual of the Great Awakening; encouraged his followers to seek their own personal religious experiences.
Who is George Whitefield?
The Pilgrims had originally intended to settle in this colony.
What is Virginia?
The year the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth Rock?
What is 1620?
The voyage that millions of enslaved Africans were forced to endure across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
What was the Middle Passage?
The Middle Colonies.
What are New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware?
This bill decreased the power of the English monarchy while strengthening the power of the English Parliament.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
Leader of Jamestown in 1608; he left for England a year later to recover from an accident.
Who is John Smith?
This Pennsylvania city got its name from William Penn; it means "City of Brotherly Love"
What is Philadelphia?
The year of Bacon's Rebellion.
What is 1676?
Prior to the French and Indian War, tensions culminated between the New England colonists and the Wampanoag Natives resulting in this "war".
What is King Philip's War?
The capital of North Carolina.
What is Raleigh?
His followers were forced to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636; they founded the settlement of Providence.
Who is Roger Williams?
Daughter of Powhatan Chief who married John Rolfe
Who is Pocahontas?
This became the first permanent English settlement in North America on May 14, 1607
What is Jamestown?
The year the English Bill of Rights was enacted?
What is 1689?
The fall of this important French city marked the end of the French and Indian War.
What is Montreal?
The capital of New Hampshire?
What is Concord?
He became a Quaker in England and later established the colony of Pennsylvania.
Who is William Penn?
Patuxet Native American who taught the Pilgrims how to grow crops in the rocky soil in Plymouth Colony.
Who is Squanto?
Fort Duquesne is located in this modern-day Pennsylvania city
What is Pittsburgh?
The year the Treaty of Paris was signed signalling the end of the French and Indian War.
What is 1763?
The trade route of goods and enslaved Africans between Africa, England, and the English North American colonies.
What is the Triangular Trade Route?
The capital of Maryland?
What is Annapolis?
Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
An Enlightenment thinker who believed people have natural born rights: liberty and equality
Who is John Locke?
The Pilgrims originally traveled to this European nation in 1608; 12 years prior to landing in Massachusetts
What is the Netherlands?
The year the Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the English; it was renamed New York City.
What is 1664?
King James II believes that the English colonies were too independent resulting in this new government.
What is the Dominion of New England?
What are Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia?
King George II granted this person a charter to establish a new colony in 1732; later known as Georgia.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
Founded Connecticut and put together a list principles which became known as the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.
Who is Thomas Hooker?
The Salem Witch Trials occurred in this colony shortly after the colonies of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay combined.
What is Massachusetts?
The Virginia House of Burgesses was established in this year.
What is 1619
The mother country, England, uses its colonies as a way to generate wealth which defines this form of economy.
What is mercantilism?
The capital of South Carolina.
What is Columbia?
The Mayflower Compact is established.
What is 1620?