Midterm

Question 0

John Rolfe

Answer 0

He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia.

Question 1

John Winthrop

Answer 1

Founded Massachusetts Bay Colony

English Puritan lawyer

Question 2

John Smith

Answer 2

He was considered to have played an important part in the establishment of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony (based at Jamestown)

Question 3

Rodger Williams

Answer 3

English Protestant theologian
Believed in religious freedom
Founded Rhode Island

Question 4

James Oglethorpe

Answer 4

a British general, Member of Parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia.

Question 5

Committees of Correspondence

Answer 5

shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution.

Spend news—Promote resistance

Question 6

John Peter Zenger

Answer 6

Wrote bad article in paper about judges

Led to freedom of press

Question 7

Townshed Acts

Answer 7

A series of acts passed by Parliament

Light import duty on glass, white lead, paper, paint and tea

Question 8

Bacon’s rebellion

Answer 8

Virginians rose up against Berkeley and attacked native Americans

Question 9

Declaratory Acts

Answer 9

To bind the colonies and affirmed complete power over the them

Question 10

New England Confederation

Answer 10

a short-lived military alliance of the English colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven.

All Puritan

Question 11

Jamestown

Answer 11

In Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.

Question 12

Maryland Toleration Act

Answer 12

A law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians in Maryland

Question 13

Albany Congress

Answer 13

meeting of representatives sent by the legislatures of the northern seven of the thirteen British North American colonies

to discuss better relations with the Native American tribes and common defensive measures against the French threat from Canada in the opening stage of the French and Indian War

Question 14

Mercantilism

Answer 14

belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism

Question 15

Power of the Purse

Answer 15

the ability of one group to manipulate and control the actions of another group by withholding funding, or putting stipulations on the use of funds.

Question 16

Jonathan Edwards

Answer 16

a Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian.

Big factor in the Great Awakening

Question 17

Stamp Act

Answer 17

Tax on all papers

To support new military force

Question 18

Coercive Acts

Answer 18

A series of four acts established by the British government. The aim of the legislation was to restore order in Massachusetts and punish Bostonians for their Tea Party

Question 19

King Phillip’s War

Answer 19

The First Indian War, Metacom’s War, Metacomet’s War, or Metacom’s Rebellion, was an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day New England and English colonists and their Native American allies in 1675–78.

Question 20

Intolerable Acts

Answer 20

The American Patriots’ name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.

Question 21

George Grenville

Answer 21

British prime minister and he passed the stamp act

Question 22

Writ of Assistance

Answer 22

Right to search

British used this to enforce acts

Question 23

Albany Plan of Union

Answer 23

A plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. the Albany Plan was the first important proposal to conceive of the colonies as a collective whole united under one government.