Period 2: 1607-1754

Question 1

Jamestown colony

Answer 1

settled 1607
bad land, malaria, rich men, no gold
Headright system - land for population - people spread out

Question 2

Quebec

Answer 2

1608 established by French

Question 3

Rolfe

Answer 3

1614 introduced tobacco cultivation in Virginia

Question 4

African slaves first brought in 1619

Question 5

Plymouth colony

Answer 5

founded 1620
Mayflower Compact signed - agreed rule by majority

Question 6

House of Burgesses

Answer 6

Virginia representative assembly

Question 7

New York

Answer 7

founded 1624 by Dutch

Question 8

MA Bay Colony

Answer 8

founded 1629
“City Upon a Hill”
Governor Winthrop
Bi-cameral legislature, schools

Question 9

Puritan Migration

Answer 9

1630

Question 10

Maryland

Answer 10

founded 1632
for profit
proprietorship

Question 11

Rhode Island

Answer 11

founded 1636 by Roger Williams
Harvard College founded

Question 12

Connecticut

Answer 12

founded 1635

Question 13

Delaware

Answer 13

founded 1638
first church, first school

Question 14

Maryland Toleration Act

Answer 14

1636
for Christians
later repealed

Question 15

Navigation Acts

Answer 15

1650-1696 enacted by Parliament
limited trade, put tax on items

Question 16

Half Way Covenant

Answer 16

1660
get people back to church
erosion of Puritanism

Question 17

Carolina colonies

Answer 17

1670 Charles II grants charter
Restoration Colony

Question 18

Blue Laws

Answer 18

1672
Connecticut - death codes for disagreeing with parents or bible

Question 19

Bacons Rebellion

Answer 19

1676
Virginia
Bacon wants frontier protection from royal Gov. Berkeley - put down
FIRST UPRISING AGAINST BRITISH

Question 20

Pennsylvania

Answer 20

founded 1682 by William Penn
Quaker
first library
center of thought

Question 21

Dominion of New England

Answer 21

1686
royal Gov. Andros
attempt to unify Northern colonies to curb independence
suspended liberties - town meetings
Failed - Andros left

Question 22

King William’s War

Answer 22

1689-1713
“The War of the League of Augsburg”

Question 23

Salem Witchcraft Trials

Answer 23

1692

Question 24

Parliamentary Act

Answer 24

1696

Question 25

Restrictions on Colonial manufacturing

Answer 25

1699-1750

Question 26

Enlightenment

Answer 26

1700s
reason, natural rights, diesm
John Locke, Adam Smith, Rousseau

Question 27

Queen Anne’s War

Answer 27

1702-1713
(War of Spanish Succession)

Question 28

Great Awakening

Answer 28

1720-1740
George Whitefield
Edwards
Gibbens
threatening salvation for all, extreme piety

Question 29

Georgia Colony

Answer 29

founded 1733
buffer state

Question 30

Molasses Act

Answer 30

1733
import tax on molasses, sugar, rum
curb trade with French West Indies
not strictly enforced

Question 31

Mutual Watchfulness

Answer 31

Northeast colonies
religion, salvation

Question 32

Salutory Neglect

Question 33

Zenger Trial

Answer 33

1735
victory for freedom of the press
truth is not libel

Question 34

King George’s War

Answer 34

1740-1748
(War of the Austrian Succession)