NITTY-GRITTY HP2
1. Who established a colony on Roanoke Island?
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2. What was the name given to those
Calvinists who wished to rid the
Anglican Church of Catholic influences?
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3. What and when was the first English
colony founded? ____________________
4. Who imposed military rule on this
first colony? ________________________
5. What was the winter of 1609-10
called here? ____________________________
6. What Indian confederacy
aided these first settlers? ____________________
7. What system promised
every new arrival a land grant of 50 acres or 50
acres to the one who
financed the new arrival? _________________________
8. What was the
Virginia representative assembly established 1619? ________
9. What
colony was chartered as a proprietorship to the Calverts? _________
10.
What Calvinist belief held that God has known through all eternity
whether an
individual is saved or not? ________________________________
11. What
were Puritans called in the New World? ___________________________
12.
What were Puritans who left the Church of England called?
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13. What settlement was founded by #12?
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14. What was the name of their ship?
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15. What agreement was signed
which established a legal authority for the
colony?
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16. Who
was the second governor of this colony? ___________________________
17.
What Indian tribe helped the Pilgrims?
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18. Who was the leader of these Indians?
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19. What Indian served as an
interpreter? _________________________________
20. What holiday was first
celebrated in 1621? ____________________________
21. Who was the governor
of the Massachusetts Bay Colony? _________________
22. What is the name
for the Puritan belief that God had chosen them for a
special mission in
America and in return they promised to work together
in Christian charity to
obtain common goals? __________________________
23. Who founded
Connecticut? ______________________________________________
24. What
Indians did the settlers threaten in Connecticut? ________________
25.
Who founded Rhode Island? _____________________________________________
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26. What Rhode Island settler was a follower of John Cotton?
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27. What was the name given to those 6 colonies formed
after 1660? ________
28. What European country had originally settled New
York? ________________
29. What is another name for the Society of
Friends? ______________________
30. What is the "City of Brotherly Love"?
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31. What European country originally
settled Delaware? ____________________
32. Who founded Georgia?
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33. What is the name
for the period during the English Civil War during
which the mother country
had little time to regulate the
colonies?
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34.
What economic system motivated British policy in the colonies?
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35. What was the name for a series of laws passed to apply this
policy to
the American colonies to assure that American trade centered on
England?
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36. What
did Parliament establish in 1696 to deal with smuggling
cases?
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37.
What was the largest colonial manufacturing enterprise?
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38. What was the largest group of non-English immigrants
to America in the
18th. century?
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39. What was the
legal term meaning a married woman became one person with
her husband?
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40. What was
the first book printed in the colonies? ______________________
41. What
was the first college in the colonies? ___________________________
42.
What English political writer said governments were created by men,
could be
altered by them, and that if a ruler broke his agreement with
the people he
could be removed from power? ____________________________
43. Who was the
American "Renaissance Man"? _______________________________
44. What
European country was the chief threat to British colonial
holdings in the
18th. century? ________________________________________
45. What war was
fought between 1754 and 1763? ____________________________
46. What did
the English convene in 1754 to discuss the French
threat?
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47.
Who surrendered Fort Necessity to the French in July, 1754?
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48. What was the French and Indian War called in Europe?
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49. What battle was the turning point of this war?
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50. What treaty ended this war?
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51. What British prime
minister determined that the colonists should help
pay the costs of the
French and Indian War? ___________________________
52. What Ottawa war
chief fought the British between 1763 and 1766? _______
53. What was the
name for the 1763 raids made against settlements of
Christian Indians?
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54. What document
limited the westward settlement of the colonists? _______