Law allowing the British East India Company to sell its tea directly to the colonies
What is the Tea Act?
100
People who move to another country after leaving their homeland
Who are immigrants?
100
A protest in which colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped more than 340 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor
What is The Boston Tea Party?
100
Saved John Smith;
Married John Rolfe
Who is Pocahontas?
200
Helped found the Jamestown colony; encouraged settlers to build better houses
Who is John Smith?
200
Written by pilgrims to set guidelines for self-government
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
Who are indentured servants?
200
A political meeting in which people make decisions on local issues
What is a town meeting?
200
Established the colony of Portsmouth in Rhode Island after being banished by the Puritans
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
300
Led the agitation that led to the Boston Tea Party
Who is Samuel Adams?
300
a shift in political power from the British monarchy to Parliament
What is the English Bill of Rights?
300
Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England
Who are Puritans?
300
A religious movement that became widespread in the 1730s and 40s
What is the Great Awakening?
300
Patuxet Indian that escaped to America and helped the settlers with farming
Who is Squanto?
400
Founded a colony for Quakers in Pennsylvania
Who is William Penn?
400
First law guaranteeing religious freedom to be passed in America
What is the Toleration Act of 1649?
400
Members of a Puritan Separatist sect that left England in the early 1600s to settle in the Americas
Who are Pilgrims?
400
An attack against the American Indians and the colonial government in Virginia
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
400
Ottowa chief who united the Great Lakes' Indians; he later attacked British forts and then surrendered
Who is Pontiac?
500
Puritan leader and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Who is John Winthrop?
500
law passed by Parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items such as newspapers, licenses, and legal documents
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?
500
Protestant sect whose members believed that salvation was available to all people
Who are Quakers?
500
The Age of Reason when people started examining the natural world, society, and government
What is the Enlightenment?
500
African American abolitionist; wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of...himself