SocialStudies Chap4&5 Test
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- William Bradford & Capt Miles Standish led and defended the
- Plymouth colony
- England's Great Migration occurred
- when economic and political forces became unbearable for dissenters
- The Virginia colony began to thrive economically after
- John Rolfe introduced West Indian tobacco in 1612
- What became known as the first Thanksgiving was celebrated by
- Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in Massachusetts
- Only white male church members can vote in
- Massachusettes Bay
- In 1664, Sir George Carteret and John Lord Berkeley became proprietors of
- New Netherland and New Amsterdam
- After the Dutch lost control of New Netherland in 1664, England's DUke of York
- renamed the colony New York
- Catholics were persecuted in England because of their
- connections with foreign poweres and their opposition to England's separation from the Roman Catholic Church
- Puritans thought that the most reliable religious authority was
- the Bible
- In 1634 the second Lord Baltimore establised a new colony in American for
- Catholics
- Which colony share a large part of its border with Lake Ontario and New France, where the fur trade was very important
- New York
- The majority of early settlements in Virginia were along which river
- James River
- Crops grown mainly to be sold for profit
- cash crops
- Many laws in Massachusetts enforced the Puritan's efforts to
- combine church and state
- One of the leading figures in the Scientific Revolution was
- Galileo
- Parliament has a bicameral legislature which is
- a law-making body made up of two houses
- Much of the scientific method used today was developed by
- Sir Isaac Newton
- two leading industries in New England
- fishing and ship building
- THe Great Awakening encouraged colonial communication between colonies when
- ministers from different colonies began communicating with one another
- The discovery that lightning is a form of electricity came when
- Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a thunderstorm
- the diverse northern economy demanded the labor of many
- skilled craftsmen who had trained as apprentices
- the Navigation Acts required colonist to do most of their trading with
- England
- which country did not typically import slaves
- Great Britain
- wanted to reform or purify the Church of England
- Puritans
- people who have left the country of their birth to live in another country
- immigrants
- owners of a colony
- proprietors
- sacred agreement
- covenant
- religious group
- sect
- wanted to separate from the Church of ENgland entirely rather than reform it
- Separatists
- fifty acres of land given to thos who paid their way to Virginia
- headright
- governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
- John Winthrop
- people who disagree with official religious or political opinions
- dissenters
- made restriciting the religious rights of Christians a crime
- Toleration Act of 1649
- published criticism of the royal governor of New York
- John Peter Zenger
- crops that are continuously in demand
- staple crops
- set policy for 13 colonies
- Privy Council
- one of the most popular ministers of the Great Awakening
- George Whitefield
- creating and maintening wealth by carefully controlling trade
- mercantilism
- false statement that damages a person's reputation
- libel
- import taxes
- duties