Bacon's Rebellion - Answer In 1676, Nathaniel Bacon, a Virginia planter, led a group of 300 settlers in a war against the local Native Americans. When Virginia's royal governor questioned Bacon's actions, Bacon and his men looted and burned Jamestown. Bacon's Rebellion manifested the increasing ...
APUSH Review Ch.1-24 with correct answers
Bacon's Rebellion - Answer In 1676, Nathaniel Bacon, a Virginia planter, led a group of 300 settlers in a war against the local Native Americans. When Virginia's royal governor questioned Bacon's actions, Bacon and his men looted and burned Jamestown. Bacon's Rebellion manifested the increasing hostility between the poor
and wealthy in the Chesapeake region.
Jamestown - Answer First permanent English settlement in North America
Peter Stuyvesant - Answer The governor of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, hated by the colonists. They surrendered the colony to the English on Sept. 8, 1664.
John Rolfe - Answer He brought tobacco to Jamestown, which saved this colony from failing, and he also was married to Pocahontas.
Anglo-Powhatan War
anglo-powhatan war - Answer Happened because of colonists raiding Indian food supplies, relations deteriorating. Ended in a peace settlement sealed by the marriage of Pocahontas to colonist John Rolfe
Dominion of New England - Answer 1686 - The British government combined the colonies of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut into a single province headed by a royal governor (Andros). The Dominion ended in 1692, when the colonists revolted and drove out Governor Andros.
John Smith - Answer Helped found and govern Jamestown. His leadership and strict discipline helped the Virginia colony get through the difficult first winter. John Winthrop - Answer Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, envisioned colony as a "city upon a hill"
Roger Williams - Answer A dissenter who clashed with the Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and state and was banished in 1636, after which he founded the colony of Rhode Island to the south
William Penn - Answer A Quaker that founded Pennsylvania to establish a place where his people and others could live in peace and be free from persecution.
Quaker - Answer a person who believed all people should live in peace and harmony; accepted different religions and ethnic groups
Great Puritan Migration - Answer Many Puritans migrated from England to North America during the 1620s to the 1640s due to belief that the Church of England was beyond reform. Ended in 1642 when King Charles I effectively shut off emigration to the colonies with the start of the English Civil War.
New England Confederation - Answer 1643 - Formed to provide for the defense of the four New England colonies, and also acted as a court in disputes between colonies.
Headright system - Answer The Virginia Company's system in which settlers and
the family members who came with them each received 50 acres of land
Indentured Servants - Answer colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
Half Way Covenant - Answer this admitted to baptism, but no full communion, the unconverted children of existing members First Great Awakening - Answer Religious revival movement during the 1730s and 1740s; its leaders were George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards; religious pluralism was promoted by the idea that all Protestant denominations were legitimate.
George Whitefield - Answer Credited with starting the Great Awakening, also a leader of the "New Lights."
Jonathan Edwards - Answer American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America (1703-1758)
William Pitt - Answer English statesman who brought the Seven Years' War to an end (1708-1778)
Treaty of Paris - Answer a 1763 agreement between britain and france that ended
the french and indian war
Albany Congress 1754 - Answer Intercolonial congress summoned by the British
government to foster greater colonial unity and assure Iroquois support in the escalating war against the French.
Seven Year's War - Answer Known in America as French and Indian war. It was the war between the French and their Indian allies and the English that proved the English to be the more dominant force of what was to be the United States both commercially and in terms of controlled regions.
Battle of Quebec - Answer What was the site of the historic British victory of 1759 that marked the beginning of the end of French rule in North America?
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