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Jamestown 1607 - ✔✔First permanent English settlement in North America founded by
the Virginia Company.
Captain John Smith - ✔✔Saved Jamestown 1610. Brief association with the Native
American girl Pocahontas.
First Africans - ✔✔brought to Virginia as slaves, 1619.
Virginia House of Burgesses - ✔✔1619. First elected legilative assembly in the New
World established in the Colony of Virginia. Served as an early model of elected
government in the New World.
Mayflower Compact - ✔✔1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It
was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth
colony.
Great Migration - ✔✔Puritans go to Massachusetts, 1630s-40s; due to belief that the
Church of England was beyond reform. 15,000 Puritans escape religious persecution
and economic hard times.
Roger Williams - ✔✔established Rhode Island, 1636; Believed in separation of Church
and State. He believed that the Puritans were too powerful and was ordered to leave the
Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs.
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,Anne Hutchinson's - ✔✔banishment in 1637. religious dissenter---heritic--- who
challenged the principles of Massachusetts's religious and political system. Her ideas
became known as the heresy of Antinomianism, a belief that Christians are not bound
by moral law. She was latter expelled, with her family and followers, and settled at
Pocasset ( now Portsmouth, R.I.)
Pequot War - ✔✔English won at Mystic Massachusetts, 1637, The Bay colonists wanted
to claim Connecticut for themselves but it belonged to the Pequot. The colonists burned
down their village and 400 were killed.
King Philips War, 1676 - ✔✔Puritan war against the Wampanoag and Metacom (ie.
King Philip) over land.
William Penn - ✔✔Penn, an English Quaker, founded Pennsylvania in 1682, after
receiving a charter from King Charles II the year before. He launched the colony as a
"holy experiment" based on religious tolerance.
Salem Witch Trials, 1692 - ✔✔Wave of hysteria swept through Massachusetts regarding
outrageous religious convictions and proposed witchcraft. 150 people arrested, 26
convicted. this changed the dynamics of wealth because the wealthy were accused of
witchcraft more often than the poor.
James Oglethorpe - ✔✔established Georgia, 1732. Buffer against Spanish Florida.
Recruited debtors. Unsuccessful for awhile b/c he was strict, place for honest debtors
(the poor who were in debtor's prison).
Jonathan Edwards - ✔✔sparked the 1st Great Awakening, "Sinners in the Hands of an
Angry God", He preached anew the traditional ideas of Puritanism related to
sovereignty of God, predestination, and salvation by God's grace alone. He had vivid
descriptions of Hell that terrified listeners.
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,Stono Rebellion - ✔✔1739 , The most serious slave rebellion in the the colonial period in
South Carolina. 100 African Americans rose up, got weapons and killed several whites
then tried to escape to S. Florida. The uprising was crushed and the participants
executed. The main form of rebellion was running away, though there was no where to
go.
Bacon's rebellion - ✔✔Jamestown, 1676, led by Nathaniel Bacon. It was the first
rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part; a
similar uprising in Maryland occurred later that year.
French and Indian War - ✔✔Was a war fought by French and English on American soil
over control of the Ohio River Valley-- English defeated French in 1763. STARTED
TAXATION, and BRITISH OCCUPATION.
Proclamation of 1763 - ✔✔A proclamation from the British government which forbade
British colonists from settling west of the Appalacian Mountains, and which required
any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east.
Stamp Act 1765 - ✔✔Parliament's first direct tax on the Colonies; taxed newspapers,
pamphlets, legal documents, dice and playing cards.
Declaratory Act 1766 - ✔✔the response after repealing the stamp act it stated that
parliament has right to make laws without colonial consent
Townshend Acts 1767 - ✔✔levied taxes on imported items such as paper, glass, and
TEA; not "internal taxation" like the Stamp Act, however, the colonists viewed these as
taxes and refused to pay them as well. Also created the writs of assistance to help
people search homes for smuggled items.
Boston Massacre 1770 - ✔✔Colonists started throwing rocks and snowballs at some
British soldiers; the soldiers panicked and fired their muskets, killing a few colonials.
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, This outraged the colonies and increased anti-British sentiment. led to formation of
Committees of Correspondence
Boston Tea Party 1773 - ✔✔Sons of Liberty protested against Tea Act; poured tea into
the Boston Harbor; result: Intolerable Acts (incl. Boston Port Act)
First Continental Congress 1774 - ✔✔All colonies but Georgia went to this Congress in
Philadelphia to determine how the colonies should react to the threat to their rights and
liberties; no talk of secession from England, craft a response to the Intolerable Acts.
Delegates established Association, which called for a complete boycott of British goods.
Lexington and Concord 1775 - ✔✔General Gage, stationed in Boston, was ordered by
King George III to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock. The British marched on
Lexington, where they believed the colonials had a cache of weapons. The British
continued to Concord, where they believed Adams and Hancock were hiding, and they
were again attacked by the colonial militia. As the British retreated to Boston, the
colonials continued to shoot at them from behind cover on the sides of the road. This
was the start of the Revolutionary War.
Second Continental Congress 1775 - ✔✔They organized the continental Army, called on
the colonies to send troops, selected George Washington to lead the army, and
appointed the comittee to draft the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Paine - ✔✔published Common Sense 1776; Patriot and writer whose pamphlet
Common Sense, convinced many Americans that it was time to declare independence
from Britain.
Declaration of Independence 1776 - ✔✔Formal pronouncement of independence
drafted by Thomas Jefferson and approved by Congress. The declaration allowed
Americans to appeal for foreign aid and served as an inspiration for later revolutionary
movements worldwide. JULY 4!!!
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Jamestown 1607 - ✔✔First permanent English settlement in North America founded by
the Virginia Company.
Captain John Smith - ✔✔Saved Jamestown 1610. Brief association with the Native
American girl Pocahontas.
First Africans - ✔✔brought to Virginia as slaves, 1619.
Virginia House of Burgesses - ✔✔1619. First elected legilative assembly in the New
World established in the Colony of Virginia. Served as an early model of elected
government in the New World.
Mayflower Compact - ✔✔1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It
was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth
colony.
Great Migration - ✔✔Puritans go to Massachusetts, 1630s-40s; due to belief that the
Church of England was beyond reform. 15,000 Puritans escape religious persecution
and economic hard times.
Roger Williams - ✔✔established Rhode Island, 1636; Believed in separation of Church
and State. He believed that the Puritans were too powerful and was ordered to leave the
Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs.
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,Anne Hutchinson's - ✔✔banishment in 1637. religious dissenter---heritic--- who
challenged the principles of Massachusetts's religious and political system. Her ideas
became known as the heresy of Antinomianism, a belief that Christians are not bound
by moral law. She was latter expelled, with her family and followers, and settled at
Pocasset ( now Portsmouth, R.I.)
Pequot War - ✔✔English won at Mystic Massachusetts, 1637, The Bay colonists wanted
to claim Connecticut for themselves but it belonged to the Pequot. The colonists burned
down their village and 400 were killed.
King Philips War, 1676 - ✔✔Puritan war against the Wampanoag and Metacom (ie.
King Philip) over land.
William Penn - ✔✔Penn, an English Quaker, founded Pennsylvania in 1682, after
receiving a charter from King Charles II the year before. He launched the colony as a
"holy experiment" based on religious tolerance.
Salem Witch Trials, 1692 - ✔✔Wave of hysteria swept through Massachusetts regarding
outrageous religious convictions and proposed witchcraft. 150 people arrested, 26
convicted. this changed the dynamics of wealth because the wealthy were accused of
witchcraft more often than the poor.
James Oglethorpe - ✔✔established Georgia, 1732. Buffer against Spanish Florida.
Recruited debtors. Unsuccessful for awhile b/c he was strict, place for honest debtors
(the poor who were in debtor's prison).
Jonathan Edwards - ✔✔sparked the 1st Great Awakening, "Sinners in the Hands of an
Angry God", He preached anew the traditional ideas of Puritanism related to
sovereignty of God, predestination, and salvation by God's grace alone. He had vivid
descriptions of Hell that terrified listeners.
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,Stono Rebellion - ✔✔1739 , The most serious slave rebellion in the the colonial period in
South Carolina. 100 African Americans rose up, got weapons and killed several whites
then tried to escape to S. Florida. The uprising was crushed and the participants
executed. The main form of rebellion was running away, though there was no where to
go.
Bacon's rebellion - ✔✔Jamestown, 1676, led by Nathaniel Bacon. It was the first
rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part; a
similar uprising in Maryland occurred later that year.
French and Indian War - ✔✔Was a war fought by French and English on American soil
over control of the Ohio River Valley-- English defeated French in 1763. STARTED
TAXATION, and BRITISH OCCUPATION.
Proclamation of 1763 - ✔✔A proclamation from the British government which forbade
British colonists from settling west of the Appalacian Mountains, and which required
any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east.
Stamp Act 1765 - ✔✔Parliament's first direct tax on the Colonies; taxed newspapers,
pamphlets, legal documents, dice and playing cards.
Declaratory Act 1766 - ✔✔the response after repealing the stamp act it stated that
parliament has right to make laws without colonial consent
Townshend Acts 1767 - ✔✔levied taxes on imported items such as paper, glass, and
TEA; not "internal taxation" like the Stamp Act, however, the colonists viewed these as
taxes and refused to pay them as well. Also created the writs of assistance to help
people search homes for smuggled items.
Boston Massacre 1770 - ✔✔Colonists started throwing rocks and snowballs at some
British soldiers; the soldiers panicked and fired their muskets, killing a few colonials.
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, This outraged the colonies and increased anti-British sentiment. led to formation of
Committees of Correspondence
Boston Tea Party 1773 - ✔✔Sons of Liberty protested against Tea Act; poured tea into
the Boston Harbor; result: Intolerable Acts (incl. Boston Port Act)
First Continental Congress 1774 - ✔✔All colonies but Georgia went to this Congress in
Philadelphia to determine how the colonies should react to the threat to their rights and
liberties; no talk of secession from England, craft a response to the Intolerable Acts.
Delegates established Association, which called for a complete boycott of British goods.
Lexington and Concord 1775 - ✔✔General Gage, stationed in Boston, was ordered by
King George III to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock. The British marched on
Lexington, where they believed the colonials had a cache of weapons. The British
continued to Concord, where they believed Adams and Hancock were hiding, and they
were again attacked by the colonial militia. As the British retreated to Boston, the
colonials continued to shoot at them from behind cover on the sides of the road. This
was the start of the Revolutionary War.
Second Continental Congress 1775 - ✔✔They organized the continental Army, called on
the colonies to send troops, selected George Washington to lead the army, and
appointed the comittee to draft the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Paine - ✔✔published Common Sense 1776; Patriot and writer whose pamphlet
Common Sense, convinced many Americans that it was time to declare independence
from Britain.
Declaration of Independence 1776 - ✔✔Formal pronouncement of independence
drafted by Thomas Jefferson and approved by Congress. The declaration allowed
Americans to appeal for foreign aid and served as an inspiration for later revolutionary
movements worldwide. JULY 4!!!
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