Jamestown
New England
Economics
Conflict
Politics
100
King of England in 1607
Who is King James
100
Those who wanted to purify the Church of England
What were Puritans
100
Type of company that financed the Jamestown settlement
What is joint-stock
100
Event that gave Britain supremacy of the seas in 1588
What is the defeat of the Spanish Armada
100
Trial of a New York newspapaper editor that set a precedent for freedom of the press
What is the Zenger Trial
200
Military officer responsible for organizing the settlement
Who is Captain John Smith
200
Term commonly used for Separatists
What is Pilgrims
200
Primary way of making money in New England
What is shipbuilding
200
Uprising of former indentured servants in Virginia in 1676
What is Bacon's Rebellion
200
Agreement signed by the Separatists for majority rule in the Plymouth colony
What is the Mayflower Compact
300
"Cash crop" that made the colony economically viable
What is tobacco
300
First college in Britain's North American colonies
What is Harvard
300
"Cash crop" of South Carolina
What is rice
300
King who "lost his head" over the English Civil War in the 1640s
Who is King Charles I
300
Name given to Virginia's first legislature in 1619
What is the House of Burgesses
400
Englishman who married Pocohontas
Who is John Rolfe
400
Term for "father centered" families
What is patriarchal
400
Term used for a 50-acre tract of land given to induce Englishmen to settle in the colonies
What is a headright
400
European country that originally settled present-day New York
What is the Netherlands
400
Puritan minister banished because of his belief in the separation of Church and State
Who is Roger Williams
500
Practice of giving the entire estate to the 1st born
What is primogeniture
500
Wanted to establish "a shining city on a hill"
Who is John Winthrop
500
Economic system that uses colonies to benefit the mother country
What is Mercantilism
500
Site where French fur-trappers and British settlers clashed at the meeting of three rivers in 1754
What is Pittsburgh (Fort Duquesne)
500
Reason Georgia was added as the 13th British colony in North America
What is as a buffer against Spanish Florida
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