Test 6 - Chapter 7 Review - Map Mastery 10 Flashcards
What was the first permanent settlement in the New World?
St. Augustine
Colonial Virginia’s elected body of representatives was called what?
House of Burgesses
The colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh and remembered today as “The Lost Colony” is…
Roanoke
The first written constitution in America was this document.
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
England defeated who in 1588
Spanish Armada
The Ole’ Deluder Satan Act was passed in 1647 in Massachusetts, establishing what?
first public schools in America
What year was Jamestown founded?
1607
The first written agreement of self-government in America was what
Mayflower Compact
The first place Separatists moved for religious freedoms was where?
Holland
The Pilgrims established their colony at Plymouth in what year?
1620
The first Indian to welcome the Pilgrims was who?
Samoset
What ship(s) brought settlers to Jamestown?
Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery
The Ark and the Dove brought settlers here for religious freedom
Maryland
Georgia’s first permanent settlement
Savannah
Lord Baltimore requested American land to begin this colony for the English Catholics
Maryland
The first royal colony owned by the King of England
Virginia
What became the capital of Virginia in 1699?
Williamsburg
South Carolina’s first permanent settlement
Charleston
The Indian who lived with the Pilgrims and helped them to survive
Squanto
The name of the colony that is now the state of New York
New Netherland
Count von Zinzendorf was the leader of what group of active in missionary work?
Moravians
Who was the man responsible for establishing a settlement at Philadelphia
William Penn
The Swedes who settled in Delaware were the first to build what type of home?
log cabins
Who was the Dutch governor of New Netherland who was forced surrender to the English
Peter Stuyvesant
The proper name for this group was the Society of Friends
Quakers
Who married Pocahontas?
John Rolfe
Which man claimed part of North America for England in 1497?
John Cabot
Who planned and directed the building of the first Georgian settlement?
James Oglethorpe
One of the first missionaries spurred by the Great Awakening
David Brainerd
Who was hired to protect the Pilgrims at Plymouth?
Captain Miles Standish
Who was the first governor of Jamestown?
Lord De La Warr
Who was America’s first black woman writer to have a book published?
Phillis Wheatley
Who was the second governor of Plymouth and the author of Of Plymouth Plantation?
William Bradford
Who was the English evangelist who preached throughout the colonies, sometimes to 20,000 people at once?
George Whitefield
Who founded the first colony to offer complete religious freedom in America?
Roger Williams
Who was the Connecticut born preacher who was one of the first leaders in the Great Awakening; he preached a series of sermons about salvation
Jonathan Edwards
Know the following locations:
Labrador Peninsula, Baja Peninsula, Florida Peninsula, Ungava Peninsula, Yucatan Peninsula, Alaska Peninsula
Explain how some of the widespread ideas during the Great Awakening affected the American colonies and led to a desire for liberty and the War for Independence. Include at least 5 important facts for full credit response.
Due to the preaching of the Great Awakening, the colonists saw that all men were created equal before God. Therefore, no man was better than any other, and all were equal in the sight of the law. This idea that all men deserve equal justice under the law was peter expressed in the Declaration of Independence. The preaching of the Great Awakening also drew the colonist together and made them feel as if they were one nation under God. This feeling would strengthen their desire for independence. Biblical principles also influenced American architecture, music, philosophy, poetry, and history. It gave the colonists a sense of the nobility of hard work. Many Americans became missionaries because of the Great Awakening.
