1600-1700
1700-1750
1750-1775
Early Colonies
Road to Revolution
100
The first permanent English settlement in North America
What is Jamestown
100
Ben Franklin's first newspaper
What is the PA Gazette
100
Started for control of the Ohio River Valley
What is the French & Indian War
100
First college in the American colonies
Harvard
100
Called the Seven Years War Europe
The French & Indian War
200
First instance of direct democracy in America
What is the Mayflower Compact
200
Religious revival started in MA in the 1730s
What is the Great Awakening
200
British Prime Minister during this time period
Who is William Pitt
200
What the Pilgrims called themselves
Separatists
200
Rebellion staged in response to the British East India Company's monopoly
The Boston Tea Party
300
The most diverse section of the British colonies in America
What is the Middle Colonies
300
The most famous "New Light" preachers
Who are Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield
300
Another name for the Coercive Acts
What is Intolerable Acts
300
Inventor of the first practical steam engine
Thomas Newcomen
300
Considered to be the first American "scholar"
Ben Franklin
400
Early Puritan female dissenter
Who is Anne Hutchinson
400
Acquitted for printing seditious libel in 1735
Who is John Peter Zenger
400
First of the British Revenue Acts
What is the Sugar Act
400
Puritan dissenter and founder of Rhode Island
Roger Williams
400
Meeting where boycotts were organized in response to the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts.
First Continental Congress
500
John Winthrop hoped to esablish this at the Massachusetts Bay Colony
What is a "shining city on a hill"
500
The last of the original colonies added in 1732
What is Georgia
500
Stated all English colonies must be east of the Appalachians
What is the Proclamation of 1763
500
Name for the Church of England
Anglican Church
500
Secret groups that organized rebellion
Committees of Correspondence
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