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Was also known as the bread colonies

Middle

Wrote the famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Jonathan Edwards

Was a renowned Boston silversmith

Paul Revere

Also known as the Seven Years War

French and Indian war

What did the French rename the English fort they captured at the beginning of the French and Indian War?

Fort Duquesne

He organized the Methodist denomination in England

John Wesley

What natural pass in the Appalachian mountains allowed settlers to travel west?

The Cumberland Gap

The act that taxed legal documents?

Stamp Act

Sparsely populated land on the edge of a settlement was called the

Frontier

What period comprised the colonial era?

Founding of Jamestown in 1607 to the outbreak of the American War for Independence in 1775

What's was a hornbook?

A board with printed Scripture and the alphabet

What happened on the Plains of Abraham in the final battle of the French and Indian War?

The British defeated the French

He was colonial Americas foremost theologian?

Jonathan Edwards

What title was given to the chief executive officer of a colony?

Governor

What type of craftsman shod horses and forged tools, farm implements, and wagon parts?

Blacksmith

He conducted singing schools

William Billings

He helped to introduce the smallpox vaccine

Cotton Mather

He preached to clouds of up to 20,000 people

George Whitfield

What was the term for boys who were placed under a craftsman to learn a trade?

Apprentices

What was the name of Benjamin Franklins famous publication

Poor Richards almanac

He was best known as missionary to the Indians

David Brainerd

What general led the British troops in the French and Indian War?

General Braddock

This act made it legal to force colonists to supple housing for British soldiers

Quartering Act

What religious group write the first classical music composed in America?

Moravians

The great revival of the 1700s in America was called?

The Great Awakening

He encouraged founding of public libraries

Benjamin Franklin

What does it meant I fight"like an Indian?"

Using rocks and trees for a covering

The most widely used textbook in colonial America

New England Primer

The name of the local militia unit led by George Washington

Virginia Rangers

This war helped prepare the colonist for the War for Independence by uniting them in defense of their homes and families

French and Indian War

Made all previous land grants null and void

Proclamation of 1763

This act said the colonists were "subordinate" to England

Declaratory Act

What Englishman was a leader in America's Great Awakening?

George Whitfield

This act barred settlements in all lands west of the Appalachians

Proclamation Actof 1763

The astronomer who built an all-wood clock

Benjamin Banneker

The idea that the colonies should supply English factories with raw materials and then buy the goods they produced was called?

Mercantilism

True or false:


The New England colonies were poorly suited for agriculture due to long winters, a short growing season, and rocky terrain

True

True or false:


When George III became king of England in 1760, he determined to bring the colonists into subjection

True

True or false:Philadelphia Academy was founded by a religious denomination

False