8th Grade History Test 2 Flashcards
Because they produced an abundance of grain, which colonies were known as the “bread colonies.”
middle
Whose most famous sermon was “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”?
Jonathan Edwards’s
Sparsely populated land on the edge of a settlement was called the
frontier
the great revival of the 1700s was called the Great Awakening in what country?
America
Which king of England in 1760 determined to bring the colonists into subjection?
George III
The French and Indian War was called what in other parts of the world?
Seven years’ War
Which colonies were poorly suited for agriculture due to long winters, a short growing season, and rocky terrain?
New England colonies
the idea that the colonies should supply English factories with raw materials and then buy the goods they produced was called
mercantilism
a renowned Boston silversmith
Paul Revere
encouraged founding of public libraries
Benjamin Franklin
conducted singing schools
William Billings
astronomer who built an all-wood clock
Benjamin Banneker
helped to introduce the smallpox vaccine
Cotton Mather
taxed legal documents
Stamp Act
made it legal to force colonists to supply housing for British soldiers
Quartering Act
made all previous land grants null and void
Proclamation of 1763
said the colonies were “subordinate” to England
Declaratory Act
barred settlements in all lands west of the Appalachians
Proclamation of 1763
What period comprised the colonial era?
founding of Jamestown in 1607 to the outbreak of the American War for Independence in 1775
What religious group wrote the first classical music to be composed in America?
Moravians
What was a hornbrook?
a board with printed Scripture and the alphabet
List three schools / universities founded by religious denominations.
College of William and Mary
Columbia University
Rutgers University
What Englishman was a leader in America’s Great Awakening?
George Whitefield
What did the French rename the English fort they captured at the beginning of the French and Indian War?
Fort Duquesne