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Native Groups
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Remembered for his role in establishing the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown, Virginia.
What is John Smith
100
Jamestown was located in this colony.
What is Virginia
100
Also known as The Religious Society of Friends
What is The Quakers
100
Was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, led by Nathaniel Bacon.
What is Bacons Rebellion
100
Also know as the people of Tenochtitlan.
What is The Aztec
200
Is know for his 1492 landing in the Americas.
What is Columbus
200
Was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century.
What is Mass. Bay Colony
200
Was an undocumented, though long standing British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws.
What is Salutary Neglect
200
It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution.
What is The Stono Rebellion
200
At its peak, it was one of the most densely populated and culturally dynamic societies in the world.
What is The Maya
300
status as one of America's most influential Founding Fathers.
What is Benjamin Franklin
300
Was an English colony located in British America that became the U.S. state of Connecticut.
What is Connecticut Colony
300
Is a laborer under contract to an employer for a fixed period of time, typically three to seven years, in exchange for their transportation.
What is a Indentured Servant
300
Were periods of rapid and dramatic religious revival in Anglo-American religious history, generally recognized as beginning in the 1730s.
What is The Great Awakening
300
Were known for having their dwellings in the sides of cliffs.
What is The Anasazi
400
She was converted to Christianity and married the English settler John Rolfe.
What is pocohontas
400
The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle here.
What is Delaware
400
Is the term widely used to refer to the Spanish soldiers, explorers, and adventurers.
What is Conquistador
400
The purpose of this proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade.
What is The Proclimation of 1763
400
Is one of the four major prehistoric archaeological traditions of what is now the American Southwest.
What is The Hohokam
500
He became the youngest Prime Minister in 1783 at the age of 24.
What is William Pitt
500
Was know as the Crown Colony.
What is Province of New Hampshire
500
Is a crop which is grown for profit.
What is Cash Crop
500
Also referred as part of the larger conflict known as the Seven Years' War.
What is The French and Indian war
500
They lived in what is now the eastern part of Virginia at the time of the first European-Native encounters there.
What is The Powhatan