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Another name for Pilgrims who came to North America in 1620.
What is Separatists?
100
A frontier region extending from Pennsylvania to Georgia.
What is the backcountry?
100
Native American who helped the Pilgrims plant crops and catch eels.
Who is Squanto?
100
The trial that helped establish freedom of the press.
What is Peter Zenger's trial?
100
The two groups of people that surrounded soldiers during the Boston Massacre.
Who was workers and sailors?
200
An agreement that the Pilgrims made among themselves about how they were going to govern themselves in the New World.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
A name for the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania that was established in the 1750's.
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
200
A Quaker who founded a colony he considered a "holy experiment."
Who is William Penn?
200
A proclamation that declared that colonial settlers had to settle east of the Appalachian mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
200
The side that fired the first shot of the American Revolution.
What is no one knows?
300
Meetings established by Puritan towns to govern itself and decide local issues.
What are Town Meetings?
300
Recognizing that other people have the right to different opinions.
What is toleration?
300
A frontier region extending from Pennsylvania to Georgia.
What is the backcountry?
300
An organized campaign to refuse to buy certain products.
What is a boycott?
300
The first step taken by the Second Continental Congress in order to prepare for war.
What is form an army?
400
A Quaker who founded a colony he considered a "holy experiment?"
Who is William Penn?
400
The climate of the southern colonies.
What is warm and humid?
400
A southern colony that had a ban on slavery until the 1750's.
What is Georgia?
400
A law passed by Parliament that required colonists to buy stamps to put on legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
400
A Patriot spy who died during the fight for New York.
Who is Nathan Hale?
500
Jamestown survived and prospered because the colonists learned to grow this plant...
Who is tobacco?
500
The first document to place limits on an English ruler's power.
What is the Magna Carta?
500
The man who founded Providence, Rhode Island after being forced to leave Massachusetts.
Who is Roger Williams?
500
The author of the pro-independence pamphlet titled Common Sense?
Who is Thomas Paine?
500
The side that Native Americans favored during the war.
What is the British?