NITTY-GRITTY HP2


1. Who established a colony on Roanoke Island? ____________________________

2. What was the name given to those Calvinists who wished to rid the
Anglican Church of Catholic influences? ________________________________

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? _____________

13. What settlement was founded by #12? ___________________________________

14. What was the name of their ship? ______________________________________

15. What agreement was signed which established a legal authority for the
colony? _______________________________________________________________

16. Who was the second governor of this colony? ___________________________

17. What Indian tribe helped the Pilgrims? ________________________________

18. Who was the leader of these Indians? __________________________________

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? ______________

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"? _________________________________

31. What European country originally settled Delaware? ____________________

32. Who founded Georgia? __________________________________________________

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?
_______________________________________________________________________

34. What economic system motivated British policy in the colonies? ________

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? ______________________________________________________________

36. What did Parliament establish in 1696 to deal with smuggling cases?

_______________________________________________________________________

37. What was the largest colonial manufacturing enterprise? _______________

38. What was the largest group of non-English immigrants to America in the
18th. century? ________________________________________________________

39. What was the legal term meaning a married woman became one person with
her husband? __________________________________________________________

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?

_______________________________________________________________________

47. Who surrendered Fort Necessity to the French in July, 1754? ___________

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? ________________________

50. What treaty ended this war? ___________________________________________

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? ____________________________________________________

54. What document limited the westward settlement of the colonists? _______