Round 1
Ultimate
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Winthrops
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Penns
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Smiths
Founders
Steps
Toward
Unity
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Democratic
Rebellions
Landmarks
Three
Colonial
Regions
Religion
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This Quaker
founded the
colony of
Pennsylvania.
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Who is William
Penn?
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This Catholic
gentleman founded
the colony of
Maryland.
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Who is Lord
Baltimore?
(Sir George Calvert)
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James Oglethorp
founded this colony
as a haven for
debtors.
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What is Georgia?
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This early figure in
Virginia led the
colony to survive
its “starving time.”
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Who is Captain
John Smith?
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This Puritan dissenter
founded Rhode
Island based on the
idea of “liberty of
conscience.”
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Who is Roger
Williams?
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During the French and
Indian War, Benjamin
Franklin proposed this
idea for colonial unity.
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What is the
Albany Plan for
Union?
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During this period—1713 to
1763—the colonies were
largely left alone to
develop their own
economic and political
institutions.
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What is Salutary
Neglect?
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This New England
organization was
created in 1643 for
collective security
against Native
Americans.
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What is the New
England
Confederation?
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This organization led by
Andros was overthrown
by New Englanders in
1689, an event known
as the “First American
Revolution.”
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What is the
Dominion of New
England?
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This Puritan agreement
in 1648 sought to
standardize the
Congregational Church
throughout New
England.
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What is the
Cambridge
Platform?
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This 1676 rebellion in
Virginia contributed to
an increase in black
slavery and decrease
in white indentured
servitude.
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What is Bacon’s
Rebellion?
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This 1739 conflict was
the first major slave
rebellion in the South.
It resulted in further
restrictions on slaves.
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What is the
Stono
Rebellion?
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This 1691 rebellion in
New York was led by
frustrated poor men who
had no prospects of
owning land.
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What is
Leisler’s
Rebellion?
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This 1764 rebellion of
Scots-Irish on the
Pennsylvania frontier
was aimed at the
Pennsylvania gov’t.
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What is the
Paxton Boys
Rebellion?
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This 1771 revolt in
North Carolina was
another “west vs.
east” struggle.
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What is the
Carolina
Regulator
Movement?
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This type of meeting
became a “seed of
democracy” in early
New England.
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What is the
townhall
meeting?
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This was the first colonial
assembly in North
America, created in
Virginia in 1619.
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What is the
House of
Burgesses?
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This 1736 court case
set a trend for more
freedom of
the press
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in the colonies.
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What is the
Zenger case?
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17 -century
This
document was the first
written constitution in
American colonial
history.
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What is the
Fundamental
Orders in
Connecticut, 1639?
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Although technically not a
constitution, this was a
landmark agreement
among Pilgrims and nonPilgrims for majority
rule.
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What is the
Mayflower
Compact?
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Rhode Island is
located in this
colonial region.
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What is New
England?
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Virginia is located
in this colonial
region.
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What is the
South (Southern
Colonies)?
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New York is located in
this colonial region.
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What is the
Middle Colonies
(Mid-Atlantic
Colonies)?
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Maryland is
located in this
region.
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What is the
South (Southern
Colonies)?
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This was the largest
and most influential
colony in New
England.
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What is the
Massachusetts
Bay Colony?
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Calvinism was the
foundation for this
church in colonial
America.
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What is the
Congregational
Church?
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In 1649, this became
the first law granting
a degree of religious
toleration in the
colonies.
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What is the
Maryland Act of
Toleration?
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This was the dominant
church in the
southern colonies
(and New York).
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What is the
Anglican Church
(Church of
England)?
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This movement saw a
struggle between “Old
Lights” and “New Lights”
in the 1730s and 1740s.
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What is the Great
Awakening?
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These were the two
most important
figures of the Great
Awakening.
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Who are Jonathan
Edwards and
George
Whitefield?
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America
Forced
Labor
Significant
Conflicts
People
American
Indians
Colonial
Roulette
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This conquistador
subdued the Aztecs in
1521.
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Who is Hernán
Cortés?
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This institution, run
by Franciscans,
served as conversion
factories for Indians.
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What is the mission
system?
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This was the first major
Spanish settlement in
New Mexico.
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What is Santa
Fe?
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This 1680 New Mexico
conflict resulted in the
expulsion of Spanish
officials for about a
decade.
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What is Pope’s
Rebellion?
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This forced labor
arrangement helped the
Spanish build infrastructure
in New Mexico by exploiting
Native American people.
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What is the
encomienda
system?
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This term refers to the
tortuous journey millions
of West African slaves
were forced to take to the
New World.
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What is the
Middle Passage?
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The slave codes that were
eventually adopted in
British North America
originated from this
British Caribbean sugar
colony.
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What is
Barbados?
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These three crops were the
most important grown in the
southern colonies during the
seventeenth century.
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What are
tobacco, rice,
and indigo?
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In this arrangement,
planters received 50 acres
for every trans-Atlantic
passage they paid on
behalf of an indentured
servant.
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What is the
headright
system?
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The first Africans
arrived in Virginia in
this year.
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What is 1619?
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This Englishman
introduced a tough strain
of tobacco that saved the
Virginia colony in its early
years.
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Who is John
Rolfe?
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This reverend was the
religious leader of the
Pilgrims when they left
Holland for the New
World.
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Who is John
Robinson?
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This American statesman
was also one of the few
first-rank scientists in
America and founded its
first secular college.
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Who is
Benjamin
Franklin?
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This Puritan leader was
perhaps the most
important in founding the
colony of Connecticut.
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Who is
Thomas
Hooker?
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This African American
slave was notable for her
first-rate poetry during
the colonial era.
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Who is Phillis
Wheatley?
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This mid-18th century
conflict was the decisive
event in altering the
balance of power between
Europeans and
Amerindians.
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What is the
French and
Indian War?
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This 1692 conflict resulted
in the decline of the
Puritan clergy’s power due
to several unfortunate
executions.
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What is the
Salem Witch
Trials?
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This 1759 battle was the
decisive conflict of the
French and Indian War.
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What is the
Battle of
Quebec?
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This 1636 New England
conflict saw the MBC and
Plymouth colonies (and
their Indian allies) destroy
a powerful Amerindian
tribe.
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What is the
Pequot War?
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This conflict, the bloodiest
in 17th-century America,
resulted in the New
England Confederation’s
victory over Metacom and
his Narragansetts.
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What is King
Philip’s War?
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This southwestern group of
Amerindians dominated what
is today New Mexico, Arizona,
and southwestern Colorado,
before later being subdued by
the Spanish.
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What are the
Pueblo?
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This Amerindian
confederation in upstate
New York was allied
with the British during
the French and Indian
War.
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What is the
Iroquois
Confederacy?
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This tribe battled
Virginians during the
early years of the
Jamestown colony.
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What is the
Powhatan?
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This tribe was a long-time
ally of France in the St.
Lawrence valley and helped
fight the British and
American colonists during the
French and Indian War.
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What is the
Huron?
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This tribe, led by
Massasoit, inhabited lands
upon which the Pilgrims
landed in 1620. They were
enemies of the
Narragansetts.
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What is the
Wampanoag?
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This treaty, that ended
the French and Indian
War, removed France
entirely from North
America.
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What is the
Treaty of Paris
(1763)?
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This term refers to the
large-scale Puritan
immigration into New
England in the years
following 1629.
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What is the
“Great
Migration?”
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The Navigation Laws
were meant to enforce
this economic system.
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What is
mercantilism?
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In the 1600s, this religious
doctrine was the
cornerstone of Calvinism,
and therefore, the
Congregational Church.
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What is
predestination?
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This officer began the
French and Indian War in
1754 with his attack on Ft.
Duquesne.
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Who is George
Washington?
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This Calvinist wrote, “We
shall build a city upon a
hill,” and became governor
of the Massachusetts Bay
Colony in 1630.
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Who is John
Winthrop?
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