Unit 1 Vocab

Question 1

An individual who does work under a contract that typically works 5-7 yrs in exchange for passage to North America

Answer 1

Indentured Servants

Question 2

Established a haven for Quakers in Pennsylvania

Answer 2

William Penn

Question 3

Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony who wanted to create an ideal colony

Answer 3

John Winthrop

Question 4

The second permanent English colony in North America

Answer 4

Plymouth Colony

Question 5

Puritan dissenter who was kicked out of Massachusetts

Answer 5

Anne Hutchinson

Question 6

Church members who wanted to “purify” or reform the Church of England

Answer 6

Puritans

Question 7

This religious group believes that everyone has an “inner light”

Answer 7

Quakers

Question 8

Puritan dissenter who was kicked out of Massachusetts and formed the colony of Rhode Island

Answer 8

Roger Williams

Question 9

Royal colony who was funded by a joint-stock company; later included Plymouth

Answer 9

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Question 10

__________ were a series of mercantilist laws that restricted colonial trade.

Answer 10

Navigation Acts

Question 11

___________, which held that a country’s ultimate goal was self-sufficiency and that all countries were in a competition to acquire the most gold and silver, led to the British controlling the economics of the colonies

Answer 11

Mercantilism

Question 12

Great Britain practiced a policy known as __________ where the colonies could govern themselves

Answer 12

Salutary Neglect

Question 13

One grown primarily for sale than for the farmer’s own use.

Answer 13

Cash Crop

Question 14

A three way trading process from Europe to West Africa, West Africa to Americas, and Americas to Europe.

Answer 14

Triangular Trade

Question 15

The voyage that bought Africans to the West Indies and later to North America.

Answer 15

Middle Passage

Question 16

_________ , an Enlightenment thinker, “discovered electricity” through the use of science and reasoning.

Answer 16

Benjamin Franklin

Question 17

The era of the __________ saw the questioning for institutions, such as the church.

Answer 17

Enlightenment

Question 18

One of the most known preachers of the __________ was _______________, who had a sermon called “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”

Answer 18

Great Awakening , Jonathan Edwards

Question 19

To avoid further conflicts with Native Americans, the British government issued the _________________ , which banned all settlement west of the Appalachians.

Answer 19

Proclamation of 1763

Question 20

One of the taxes issued to help pay for the French and Indian War was the ___________, which placed a tax on molasses.

Answer 20

Sugar Act

Question 21

The conflict that broke out between France and Great Britain, known as the __________________, resulted in the British taking over all of New France.

Answer 21

French and Indian War

Question 22

One heroic figure of the French and Indian War was _________________

Answer 22

George Washington

Question 23

These were a series of indirect taxes that levied duties on imported materials, such as glass, lead, paint, and paper

Answer 23

Townshend Acts

Question 24

Leader of Great Britain; enraged by colonial actions against the British

Answer 24

King George III

Question 25

Established to communicate with other colonies regarding threats to American liberties

Answer 25

Committees of Correspondence

Question 26

Resulted from the Quartering Act; presented as a British attack on defenseless citizens

Answer 26

Boston Massacre

Question 27

Punishment for the Boston Tea Party; the Boston Harbor remained closed until the ruined tea was payed for

Answer 27

Intolerable Acts

Question 28

Resulted from the Tea Act; Colonists were punished for pouring out British tea into the Boston Harbor through Intolerable Acts

Answer 28

Boston Tea Party

Question 29

This direct tax required colonists to purchase special stamped paper for every legal document, license, newspaper, pamphlet, and almanac

Answer 29

Stamp Act

Question 30

________________, who was inspired by the Enlightenment, wrote the ___________________ which stated that “All men are created equal.”

Answer 30

Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence

Question 31

The ________________ sent the _______________ to King George III as a way to avoid going to war against the British; however, this group eventually created a Continental Army appointing George Washington as its commander.

Answer 31

Second Continental Congress, Olive Branch Petition

Question 32

Two groups formed in the colonies during the Revolutionary period: The _______________ wanted to go to war against the British and gain independence, and the _____________ wanted to remain loyal to King George III and Great Britain.

Answer 32

Patriots, Loyalist

Question 33

Thomas Paine’s __________________ was a 50-page pamphlet that encouraged the colonies to go to war against the British

Answer 33

Common Sense

Question 34

A french military leader who offered great assistance to the American cause.

Answer 34

Marquis de Lafayette

Question 35

Confirmed U.S. independence and set the boundaries of the new nation.

Answer 35

Treaty of Paris

Question 36

A belief in the equality of all people

Answer 36

Egalitarianism

Question 37

Allowed several investors to pool their wealth in support of a colony that would yield a profit.

Answer 37

Joint-Stock Companies

Question 38

Founded in Virginia in 1607

Answer 38

Jamestown