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Tony's US History
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The first permanent European settlement in what is now the United States, established by a Spanish soldier named Pedro Menéndez de Avilés in September 1565. | St. Augustine |
| Known as the "Lost Colony", it was an early English settlement on the namesake Island (present-day North Carolina) that mysteriously disappeared between 1587 and 1590, leaving behind only cryptic clues like the word "Croatoan" carved on a post. | Roanoke Colony |
| first permanent English settlement in North America. | Jamestown |
| An outburst of violent protests by Nathaniel Bacon and other impoverished settlers against Gov. Berkeley for not providing them with land and monopolizing the fur trade. Raids against Native Americans. Uprising was crushed but landless whites were still a | Bacons Rebellion |
| Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony; envisioned the colony as a "city upon a hill" from which Puritans would spread religious righteousness throughout the world. | John Winthrop |
| First college in New World. Established by Puritans to train ministers. | Harvard College |
| 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. | William Penn |
| Powerful group of Native Americans in the eastern part of the United States made up of five nations: the Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, and Oneida | Iroquois Confederacy |
| A series of British regulations which taxed goods imported by the colonies from places other than Britain. The Acts were reinstated after the French and Indian War because Britain needed to pay off war debts, and to maintain an army in the colonies. | Navigation Acts |
| 100 slaves rebelled in South Carolina, killing 100 whites and attempting to escape to Florida; whites quickly suppress rebellion; led Southern legislatures to pass strict slave laws and harsh punishments | Stono Rebellion |
| 18th Century (1700's) concept which held that God created the world according to rational laws and that he was like a clockmaker who would not interfere in the natural order of things. | Deism |
| (1730s and 1740s) Religious movement characterized by emotional preaching. Associated with the democratization of religion (Black Protestantism); new churches were established along with colleges to train clergy | Great Awakening |
| A Congregationalist preacher of the Great Awakening who spoke of the fiery depths of hell. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" | Jonathan Edwards |
| Credited with starting the Great Awakening, also a leader of the "New Lights." | George Whitefield |
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