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Question 1 of 50
In 1607, about 100 English men landed on a swampy peninsula in the Chesapeake Bay and founded the first permanent English settlement in North America. Disease, starvation, and conflict with Native peoples killed most of them within a few years, but the colony survived. This settlement was
Question 2 of 50
Jamestown was founded not by the English Crown but by a group of London investors who had pooled their money to finance the venture in hopes of profit, under a royal charter granting them the right to settle and govern the colony. This group was the
Question 3 of 50
A soldier among the early Jamestown settlers took command in 1608, imposed the rule that those who did not work would not eat, negotiated with the Powhatan for food, and is credited with keeping the colony alive during its first years. This leader was
Question 4 of 50
Around 1612, a Jamestown settler began cultivating a West Indian variety of a crop that sold well in England, and within a decade it had become Virginia’s economic foundation, driving the demand for land and labor that shaped the entire Chesapeake region. This crop was
Question 5 of 50
To attract settlers and labor, Virginia granted 50 acres of land to anyone who paid for his own passage to the colony and another 50 acres for every additional person whose passage he paid. This policy was the
Question 6 of 50
In 1619, Virginia’s settlers elected representatives to a lawmaking body that met at Jamestown, the first representative assembly in English America and the model for the colonial legislatures that followed. This body was the
Question 7 of 50
For most of the 17th century, the Chesapeake’s labor needs were met by poor English men and women who agreed to work for a planter for four to seven years in exchange for passage to America, food, shelter, and freedom at the end of the term. This labor arrangement was
Question 8 of 50
When the English arrived in Virginia, they encountered an alliance of some 30 Algonquian-speaking tribes under a paramount chief who alternately traded with, fed, and fought the colonists before his successors launched devastating attacks in 1622 and 1644. This alliance was the
Question 9 of 50
In 1620, before landing in New England, the Separatist passengers of a ship bound for Virginia signed an agreement to form a civil government and obey its laws, since they had landed outside the jurisdiction of their charter. This agreement was the
Question 10 of 50
Beginning in 1630, thousands of English Protestants who wanted to purify the Church of England of Catholic practices migrated to Massachusetts Bay, where they built a society of tightly organized towns governed by church members. These settlers were the
Question 11 of 50
The first governor of Massachusetts Bay told the colonists aboard ship in 1630 that their settlement would be “a city upon a hill” with the eyes of the world on it, so that its success or failure would reflect on God’s cause. This governor was
Question 12 of 50
A Puritan minister who argued that government had no authority over religious matters and that Native peoples should be paid for their land was banished from Massachusetts in 1636 and founded a new colony based on separation of church and state and religious freedom. This minister was
Question 13 of 50
A Massachusetts woman who held meetings in her home to discuss sermons, claimed that God spoke to her directly, and argued that salvation came through grace alone rather than good works was tried for heresy and banished in 1638. This woman was
Question 14 of 50
Maryland was founded in 1634 as a refuge for English Catholics, but Protestant settlers soon outnumbered them. In 1649 the colony’s assembly passed a law guaranteeing freedom of worship to all Christians, one of the first such laws in the English world. This law was the
Question 15 of 50
In 1624, the Dutch established a trading colony at the mouth of the Hudson River centered on the fur trade, with a diverse population and a tolerant religious policy. England seized it in 1664 and renamed its capital New York. This colony was
Question 16 of 50
France’s North American colony along the St. Lawrence River had few settlers but an extensive network of trading posts, where French traders and missionaries built alliances with Native peoples, often marrying into their communities, in order to obtain beaver pelts. This colony was
Question 17 of 50
In 1681, the king granted a huge tract of land to a member of a radical Protestant sect that rejected formal clergy, practiced pacifism, and believed in the equality of all people before God. The colony he founded welcomed settlers of all faiths and dealt fairly with Native peoples. This founder was
Question 18 of 50
In the late 1600s, planters in the southern Carolina lowcountry adopted a crop that enslaved West Africans already knew how to grow in flooded fields, and together with a blue dye plant introduced in the 1740s it made South Carolina the wealthiest colony on the mainland. These two cash crops were
Question 19 of 50
In 1732, the last of the thirteen colonies was founded as a buffer between South Carolina and Spanish Florida and as a refuge for English debtors, with slavery and rum initially banned. Its founder was:
Question 20 of 50
In New England, the adult male church members of each community gathered regularly to pass local laws, levy taxes, and elect officials, a form of direct democracy at the local level that became a defining feature of the region. This institution was the
Question 21 of 50
By the 1660s, many children of Puritan church members had not experienced the conversion that full membership required, so New England churches adopted a compromise allowing such people to baptize their own children and hold partial membership. This compromise was the
Question 22 of 50
England’s most valuable colonies in the 17th century were not on the mainland but on islands where enslaved Africans worked sugar plantations in brutal conditions, and planters from the largest of these islands brought their slave system with them when they settled South Carolina. The most important of these islands was
Question 23 of 50
In the late 1600s, the Iroquois Confederacy and the colony of New York formed a durable alliance in which the Iroquois acted as intermediaries between the English and other Native nations, trading furs and supporting the English against France. This alliance was the
Question 24 of 50
In 1680, Native peoples of New Mexico, led by a religious leader named Popé, rose up against Spanish rule, killed hundreds of colonists and priests, destroyed churches, and drove the Spanish out of the province for twelve years in the most successful Native uprising in North American history. This uprising was the
Question 25 of 50
The Puritan churches of New England were organized so that each congregation governed itself, chose its own minister, and admitted its own members, with no bishops or central authority above the local church. This form of church organization is called
Question 26 of 50
In 1637, Massachusetts and Connecticut colonists, allied with Narragansett and Mohegan warriors, attacked a fortified village of a rival Native nation on the Mystic River, burning it and killing some 400 people, most of them women and children. This conflict was the
Question 27 of 50
In 1675, a Wampanoag leader the English called King Philip united several New England nations in a war that destroyed a dozen English towns and killed a higher share of the population than any later American war, before the English and their Native allies crushed it. This conflict was
Question 28 of 50
In 1676, a Virginia planter led an army of frontier settlers, former indentured servants, and some enslaved Africans against the colonial governor, attacking Native villages and then burning Jamestown, in protest against the governor’s refusal to drive Native peoples from the frontier and the elite’s monopoly on land and power. This uprising was
Question 29 of 50
By the late 1600s, the colonies had developed a labor system in which enslaved people were legally defined as property that could be bought, sold, and inherited, in which enslavement was lifelong and passed from mother to child, and in which it was reserved for people of African descent. This system is called
Question 30 of 50
Beginning in the 1660s, colonial legislatures passed laws declaring that children inherited the status of their mother, that baptism did not free an enslaved person, that enslaved people could not own property, testify against whites, or gather in groups, and that masters who killed enslaved people while punishing them committed no crime. These laws were the
Question 31 of 50
In 1739, about 20 enslaved Africans in South Carolina seized weapons from a store, killed several whites, and marched south toward Spanish Florida, where they had been promised freedom, gathering recruits before the militia defeated them. This uprising was the
Question 32 of 50
Colonial merchants carried rum and manufactured goods to West Africa, exchanged them for enslaved people who were carried to the West Indies, and brought sugar and molasses back to New England to be distilled into rum, in a pattern of exchange that linked three continents. This pattern is called
Question 33 of 50
In 1692, accusations of witchcraft in a Massachusetts village spiraled into mass hysteria, with more than 150 people jailed and 20 executed before the colony’s leaders halted the trials and later admitted the proceedings had been a mistake. This episode was the
Question 34 of 50
In 1686, King James II revoked the charters of the New England colonies and merged them with New York and New Jersey into a single province ruled by a royal governor, Sir Edmund Andros, who abolished the colonial assemblies and enforced the Navigation Acts. This province was the
Question 35 of 50
In 1688, Parliament deposed the Catholic King James II and replaced him with the Protestant William and Mary, who accepted limits on royal power and a bill of rights. Colonists celebrated by overthrowing the Dominion of New England and royal governors in New York and Maryland. This event was the
Question 36 of 50
Throughout the colonial Americas, enslaved people who escaped formed hidden settlements in swamps, mountains, and forests, where they lived free, sometimes for generations, and raided plantations or negotiated treaties with colonial governments. These settlements were
Question 37 of 50
Beginning in 1651, Parliament passed a series of laws requiring that colonial trade be carried in English ships, that certain colonial products such as tobacco and sugar be sold only to England, and that European goods bound for the colonies pass through English ports first. These laws were the
Question 38 of 50
In 1733, Parliament placed a heavy tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies from non-English islands, intending to force New England rum distillers to buy from the British West Indies. The tax was widely evaded through smuggling and rarely enforced. This law was the
Question 39 of 50
For most of the first half of the 18th century, Britain left its colonies largely alone, loosely enforcing trade laws and letting colonial assemblies run local affairs, so long as the colonies remained profitable and loyal. This unofficial policy is called
Question 40 of 50
In the 1730s and 1740s, a wave of emotional religious revivals swept through the colonies, as traveling preachers urged listeners to experience a personal, heartfelt conversion, splitting congregations and challenging the authority of established ministers. This movement was the
Question 41 of 50
A Massachusetts minister delivered a 1741 sermon titled “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” vividly describing the torments awaiting the unconverted and urging listeners to seek salvation immediately. This minister was
Question 42 of 50
An English evangelist toured the colonies from Georgia to New England beginning in 1739, preaching outdoors to crowds of thousands with a dramatic style that moved listeners to tears and made him the first celebrity known throughout British America. This evangelist was
Question 43 of 50
The Great Awakening divided colonial churches between ministers who embraced the emotional revivals and those who condemned them as disorderly and dangerous to established religious authority. These two factions were called
Question 44 of 50
An intellectual movement that reached the colonies from Europe in the 18th century emphasized reason, scientific inquiry, and natural law, and argued that governments existed to protect the natural rights of the people. Colonial leaders absorbed its ideas from the writings of thinkers such as John Locke. This movement was the
Question 45 of 50
A Philadelphia printer, scientist, and civic leader embodied the colonial Enlightenment, publishing a popular almanac, experimenting with electricity, founding a library, a hospital, and a college, and promoting practical self-improvement. This figure was
Question 46 of 50
During the 18th century, the colonies grew more like Britain rather than less, as colonists imported British goods, read British books and newspapers, modeled their assemblies on Parliament, adopted English legal practices, and took pride in their rights as Britons. This process is called
Question 47 of 50
In 1735, a New York printer was tried for seditious libel after his newspaper criticized the royal governor. His lawyer argued that printing the truth could not be libel, and the jury acquitted him, in a case later celebrated as a landmark for freedom of the press. This case was the
Question 48 of 50
In the 18th century, rising colonial incomes and cheaper British manufactured goods let ordinary colonists buy tea, cloth, ceramics, and other imported items that had once been luxuries, tying the colonies ever more tightly to British trade. This change is called the
Question 49 of 50
In the early 18th century, large numbers of Protestant immigrants from Ulster and from the German states arrived in the colonies, many settling on the Pennsylvania frontier and moving down the Appalachian backcountry into Virginia and the Carolinas. These two groups were the
Question 50 of 50
By the 1700s, the elected lower houses of the colonial legislatures had gained control over taxation and spending, including the salaries of royal governors, which they used to force governors to accept their wishes. This control is known as the
