History Dates

Question 1

Mayflower lands at Cape Cod, forms local government

Answer 1

1620

Question 2

John Winthrop leads Puritan migration 900 colonists, 1st governor

Answer 2

1630

Question 3

Roger Williams founds Providence and Rhode Island, banished for new and dangerous opinions

Answer 3

1636

Question 4

Columbus

Answer 4

1492

Question 5

1st permanent colony in N.A., St. Augustine

Answer 5

1565

Question 6

Jamestown founded in Virginia, Capt. John Smith captured

Answer 6

1607

Question 7

1st legislative assembly in America, 20 Africans brought by Dutch ship, slavery began

Answer 7

1619

Question 8

King Philip’s War erupts in New England, 600 colonists and 3000 natives killed

Answer 8

1675-1676

Question 9

Expansion, British pop 250,000

Answer 9

1700

Question 10

Diversity

Answer 10

1750

Question 11

Salem Witch Trials

Answer 11

1692

Question 12

Benjamin Rush killed patients

Answer 12

1793

Question 13

40% indentured servants

Answer 13

1625

Question 14

16% indentured servants

Answer 14

1683

Question 15

30% w/ skills

Answer 15

1654-1661

Question 16

80% w/ skills

Answer 16

1773-1775

Question 17

African slaves used to replace indentured servants (25 to 210,000 slaves)

Answer 17

1625-1775

Question 18

Act “casual” killings of slaves

Answer 18

1669

Question 19

30 lashes on bare back if salves hands on any Christian

Answer 19

1680

Question 20

Thomas Hobbes, protect people

Answer 20

1651

Question 21

John Locke, treaties

Answer 21

1689

Question 22

The Age of Reason

The Age of Enlightenment, Revolution

Answer 22

1750

Question 23

Post Salem, persecution of mentally ill abated

Answer 23

18th century

Question 24

• Though to be caused by spleen
• Placed in cages in almshouses, jails
• In chains, brutally whipped

Answer 24

Mid 18th Century

Question 25

Diphtheria

Answer 25

1735-1740

Question 26

Small Pox

Answer 26

1763

Question 27

Yellow Fever

Answer 27

1793

Question 28

The American Revolution/ War of Independence

Answer 28

1754-1781

Question 29

The Naturalization Act - Any alien, being free white person, could apply for citizenship - Indentured servants, free blacks and slaves were not eligible since they were property and not persons

Answer 29

1790

Question 30

Pension legislation for American colonies

Answer 30

1776