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Was also known as the bread colonies |
Middle |
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Wrote the famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
Jonathan Edwards |
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Was a renowned Boston silversmith |
Paul Revere |
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Also known as the Seven Years War |
French and Indian war |
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What did the French rename the English fort they captured at the beginning of the French and Indian War? |
Fort Duquesne |
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He organized the Methodist denomination in England |
John Wesley |
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What natural pass in the Appalachian mountains allowed settlers to travel west? |
The Cumberland Gap |
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The act that taxed legal documents? |
Stamp Act |
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Sparsely populated land on the edge of a settlement was called the |
Frontier |
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What period comprised the colonial era? |
Founding of Jamestown in 1607 to the outbreak of the American War for Independence in 1775 |
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What's was a hornbook? |
A board with printed Scripture and the alphabet |
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What happened on the Plains of Abraham in the final battle of the French and Indian War? |
The British defeated the French |
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He was colonial Americas foremost theologian? |
Jonathan Edwards |
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What title was given to the chief executive officer of a colony? |
Governor |
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What type of craftsman shod horses and forged tools, farm implements, and wagon parts? |
Blacksmith |
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He conducted singing schools |
William Billings |
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He helped to introduce the smallpox vaccine |
Cotton Mather |
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He preached to clouds of up to 20,000 people |
George Whitfield |
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What was the term for boys who were placed under a craftsman to learn a trade? |
Apprentices |
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What was the name of Benjamin Franklins famous publication |
Poor Richards almanac |
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He was best known as missionary to the Indians |
David Brainerd |
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What general led the British troops in the French and Indian War? |
General Braddock |
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This act made it legal to force colonists to supple housing for British soldiers |
Quartering Act |
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What religious group write the first classical music composed in America? |
Moravians |
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The great revival of the 1700s in America was called? |
The Great Awakening |
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He encouraged founding of public libraries |
Benjamin Franklin |
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What does it meant I fight"like an Indian?" |
Using rocks and trees for a covering |
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The most widely used textbook in colonial America |
New England Primer |
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The name of the local militia unit led by George Washington |
Virginia Rangers |
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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 |
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Made all previous land grants null and void |
Proclamation of 1763 |
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This act said the colonists were "subordinate" to England |
Declaratory Act |
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What Englishman was a leader in America's Great Awakening? |
George Whitfield |
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This act barred settlements in all lands west of the Appalachians |
Proclamation Actof 1763 |
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The astronomer who built an all-wood clock |
Benjamin Banneker |
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The idea that the colonies should supply English factories with raw materials and then buy the goods they produced was called? |
Mercantilism |
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True or false: The New England colonies were poorly suited for agriculture due to long winters, a short growing season, and rocky terrain |
True |
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True or false: When George III became king of England in 1760, he determined to bring the colonists into subjection |
True |
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True or false:Philadelphia Academy was founded by a religious denomination |
False |