Question 1

The first colonial statue granting religious freedom to all Christians, but it called for death of all non-Christians. It was created to provide a safe haven for Catholics.

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Act of Toleration

Question 2

A respected Puritan minister who believed that the individual's conscience was beyond the control of any civil or church authority. He was banished from the Bay colony for his beliefs. In 1636, he founded the settlement of Providence.

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Roger Williams

Question 3

This Puritan believed in antinomianism and was banished from the Bay colony because of her beliefs. In 1638, she founded the colony of Portsmouth.

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Anne Hutchinson

Question 4

In 1644, Parliament granted Roger Williams a charter, joining Providence and Portsmouth into this colony.

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Rhode Island

Question 5

In the 1660s, people could now take part in church services and activities without making a formal commitment to Christ. It was created because the next generation of colonists were less committed to religious faith, but churches still needed members.

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Halfway covenant

Question 6

Members of the Religious Society of Friends who believed in the equality of men and women, nonviolence, and resistance to military service.

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Quakers

Question 7

In 1861, the royal family paid a large debt by granting his family a large parcel of American land. This Quaker, formed a colony that he named Pennsylvania.

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William Penn

Question 8

In 1607, the first permanent English colony in America was founded at this location.

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Jamestown

Question 9

He helped Jamestown develop a new variety of tobacco which became popular in Europe and became a profitable crop.

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John Rolfe

Question 10

She was the American Indian wife of John Rolfe in early settlement days in Jamestown.

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Pocahontas

Question 11

Group of dissenters that wanted to purify the Church of England. In 1630 they founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony at Boston.

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Puritans

Question 12

Radical dissenters to the Church of England, They became known as Pilgrims,

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Separatists

Question 13

This colony was started by the Pilgrims in Massachusetts.

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Plymouth Colony

Question 14

In 1630, he led about a thousand Puritans to America and and founded Boston and several other towns.

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John Winthrop

Question 15

This movement started because of a civil war in England. Nearly 15,000 settlers came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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Great Migration

Question 16

Sir William Berkeley, the royal governor uses dictatorial powers to govern on behalf of the large planters.

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Virginia

Question 17

In 1663, King Charles II granted eight nobles In 1729, the land was split into two royal colonies. In one, the economy was based on the fur trade and growing food for the West Indies, which led to many plantations. In the other, there were many small tobacco farms and fewer plantations.

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The Carolinas

Question 18

This American Indian chief was known to the colonists as King Philip. He joined together the Native American tribes to fight the colonists in King Philip's War, a war that lasted from 1675 to 1676.

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Metacom

Question 19

From 1675 to 1676, the American Indian chief Metacom waged a vicious war against the English settlers in southern New England.

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King Philip's War

Question 20

In 1620, while they were sailing to America on the Mayflower, the Pilgrims created this document that pledged them to make decisions by the will of the majority. It was a rudimentary written constitution.

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Mayflower Compact

Question 21

In 1619, just 12 years after the founding of Jamestown, Virginia's colonists organized the first representative assembly in America

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House of Burgesses

Question 22

Royal Governor of Virginia who favored large plantation owners and did not support or protect smaller farms from Indian raids. He put down Bacon's rebellion in 1676.

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Sir William Berkeley

Question 23

In 1676, led a group of army volunteers that raided Native American villages, fought the governor's forces, and set fire to Jamestown. The rebellion was caused by the Governor's unfair favoritism of large plantation owners and refusal to protect small farms from Native American raids.

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Bacon's Rebellion

Question 24

In 1639, the Hartford settlers drew up the first written constitution in America. It established a representative government made up of a legislature elected by the people and a governor chosen by the legislature.

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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Question 25

Colonies operated by joint-stock companies during the early years of the colonies, such as Jamestown.

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corporate colonies

Question 26

Colonies under the direct authority and rule of the king's government, such as Virginia after 1624.

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royal colonies

Question 27

Colonies under the authority of individuals granted charters of ownership by the king

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proprietary colonies

Question 28

In 1632, the area once known as the Virginia colony, has divided into the Virginia and Maryland colony.

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Chesapeake Colonies

Question 29

An economic policy in which the colonies were to provide raw materials to the parent country of growth and profit of the parent country.

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mercantilism

Question 30

Between 1650 and 1673 England passed a series of acts which establish rules for colonial trade.

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Navigation Acts

Question 31

Young people from England under contract with a master who paid for their passage. Worked for a specified period for room and board, then they were free.

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indentured servants

Question 32

A method for attracting immigrants, Virginia offered 50 acres of land to each immigrant who paid for passage to America and to any plantation owner who paid for an immigrants passage.

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headright system

Question 33

The first slaves arrived in the colonies in 1619, they were not slaves for life, but worked for a period of time, like an indentured servant.

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slavery

Question 34

Merchants traded colonist rum for African slaves, African slaves for West Indies sugar cane, and sugar cane was brought back to the colonies to make rum.

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triangular trade

Question 35

Voyage from West Africa to the West Indies. It was miserable for the slaves transported and many died.

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Middle Passage

Question 36

Jamestown in 1607 in Virginia

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1st permanent English colony in North America

Question 37

signed prior to arrival: agreement established a basic government based upon majority rule.

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Mayflower Compact

Question 38

Governor of Plymouth; abandoned communal living and distributed farmland among families

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Governor William Bradford

Question 39

_____________ became an important part of direct democracy in colonial America (all church going males could participate).

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Town Hall Meeting

Question 40

Leader of Wampanoags defeated by colonists.

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King Philip's/Metacom's War (1675-1676)

Question 41

See image

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End of major Native resistance to the New England colonies.

Question 42

A period from 1607-1763 in which England did not strictly enforce Parliamentary laws, which allowed the colonies to flourish as almost independent states for many years.

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Salutary Neglect

Question 43

The Great Awakening was a ___________ in the 1730-1740s that spread throughout the colonies

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religious revival

Question 44

Preacher during the First Great Awakening; "Sinners in the hands of angry god"

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Jonathan Edwards

Question 45

Mayflower Compact, Town Hall Meetings, House of Burgesses, elected representative assemblies, etc.

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Examples of colonial self- government

Question 46

The growing of Indian corn, a staple of many Indians diets, leading many nomadic tribes to settle and develop great civilizations such as the Aztecs incas and Mayans.

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maize cultivation

Question 47

A nomadic way of life with no agriculture focused on following food sources including animals and wild plants

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hunter-gatherer economy

Question 48

The Americas

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western hemisphere

Question 49

A area of Africa that was previously unreachable until the invention of the caravel by the Portuguese, leading to exploitation of the region for its gold and slaves

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west africa

Question 50

Large scale agriculture worked by slaves

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plantation-based agriculture

Question 51

Desert area with no drainage to the ocean

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great basin

Question 52

economy based on the production of crops

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agricultural economy

Question 53

Colonization of the Americas by the conquistadors in search for gold, glory and God

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spanish exploration

Question 54

A government system where natives were given to colonists to work in return for converting them to Christianity.

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encomienda system

Question 55

The Spanish increasing their empire through grafting their culture onto the natives and taking over the land

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empire building

Question 56

The open plains of the Midwest where the natives adapted to roming the prairies on horseback

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great plains

Question 57

Forced labor of people considered property by the people in charge

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slave labor

Question 58

A political, economic, and social system based on the relationship between lord and vassal in order to provide protection

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feudalism

Question 59

the ability of a state to govern themselves without outside control

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political autonomy

Question 60

the exchange between the new world and the old world consisting of the old world bringing wheat, cows, horses, sheep, pigs, sugar, rice, coffee, smallpox, malaria and yellow fever. while the new world sent gold, silver, corn, potatoes, tobacco, and syphills

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Colombian exchange

Question 61

What impact did the spread of maize cultivation have on the American southwest?

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Led to large, more permanent agricultural societies with larger populations. Europeans discovered that corn was a valuable agricultural staple because it was relatively easy to grow and very useful

Question 62

What was the encomienda system and why was it replaced by slave labor?

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Gave Spanish settlers land and the ability to force local Native Americans to work on this land. Since so many Indians were dying from disease, the Spanish and Portuguese looked to African slaves to work as laborers.

Question 63

Spanish priest who wrote about the many atrocities he witnessed the Spanish commit against the Indians.

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Bartolome de Las Cases:

Question 64

a land and labor distribution system that gave Spanish settlers land and the ability to force local Native Americans to work on this land.

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Encomienda System:

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