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Name for the German immigrants who followed the teachings of John Huss.
Moravians
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What city in Pennsylvania did Count von Zinzerdorf find?
Bethlehem
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What colonies ere known as the "bread colonies?"
middle colonies
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What is homespun used for?
making clothing
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What occupation was the majority for the colonial Americans?
farming
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What group wrote the first classical music composed in America?
Moravians
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Name the nation that was the chief customer of the colonies.
England
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The plant which blue dye was produced from.
Indigo
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Term for the exchange of goods between the colonists and the Indians?
bartering
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Name of trade route that included Africa, the West Indies, and New England?
Triangular Trade Route
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What county was the great revival of the 1700s called the Great Awakening?
America
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What colonies were poorly suited for agriculture due to long winters, short growing season, and rocky terrain?
New England
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What are the three types of colonial government?
- 1. royal colonies
- 2. proprietary colonies
- 3. self-governing colonies
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Built all-wood clock and black astronomer who studied the heavens and predicted an eclipse in 1789?
Benjamin Banneker
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Minister and scientist who helped introduce the smallpox vaccine?
Cotton Mather
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Skilled silversmith known for making fine silverware?
Paul Revere
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Professional musician and composer known for conducting singing schools?
William Billings
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Name the paddle-shaped board, containing the alphabet and some Scripture for teaching children.
hornbook
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Name Benjamin Franklin's yearly publication of meteorological & astronomical information?
Poor Richard's Almanac
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Name of the most widely used textbook in the colonial America.
New England Primer
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Term for legislature composed of two houses: an upper and a lower house?
bicameral
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The first regularly published weekly newspaper in colonies?
Boston News-Letter
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Founded public libraries and called the best-known colonial man of science?
Benjamin Franklin
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What two things is Jonathan Edwards known for?
1. preacher sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
2. Foremost theologian & Greatest American intellects ever born
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Name two things George Whitefield is known for.
1. Evangelist with greatest impact Great Awakening, preached crowds up to 20,000
2. Founded Georgia orphanage 1700s teach children gospel
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Best-known missionary to the Indians?
David Brainerd
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College that was founded to train Indians as missionaries to their own people?
Dartmouth
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Name two men responsible for organizing the Methodist denomination.
- John Wesley
- Charles Wesley
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name of the England revival.
- Methodist Revival
- (Evangelical Revival)
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Name of America's revival.
Great Awakening
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Term for sparsely poplulated land on the edge of settlement?
frontier
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What period comprised the colonial era?
- 1. founding Jamestown 1607
- 2. American War for Independence 1775
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Term for boys placed under a craftsman to learn a trade?
apprentices
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Title for the chief executive officer of a colony?
governor
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Term for craftsman who shod horses and made tools, farm equipment or wagon parts?
blacksmith
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Name of local Virginia militia who's job was to preserve law and order and defend frontier posts from Indian attacks.
Virginia Rangers
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Who ignored Washington's advice and insisted on fighting in the open like in Europe?
General Braddock
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Who was appointed prime minister of England in 1763?
George Grenville
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Who was sent by Governor Dinwiddie of Virginia to order the French army to leave Virginia?
George Washington
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Who became the king in 1760 and determined to bring colonies into subjection?
George III
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Give the two names of the war in the colonies that lasted from 1754-1763 & who won the final battle?
- French and Indian War
- Seven Years' War
British WON the war
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Name of act passed by Parliament in 1765 requiring colonists to buy seals for all legal documents, pamphlets, and newspapers(tax legal documents)?
Stamp Act
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This fort was renamed Fort Pitt?
Fort Duquesne
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Who thought colonies should have direct representation in Parliament?
William Pitt the Elder
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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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What does fight "like and Indian" mean?
Use rocks and tress for cover during a fight
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Name of colonial America's foremost theologian?
Jonathan Edwards
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What act made it legal to force colonists to supply housing for British soldiers?
Quartering Act
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What document made all previous land grants no longer valid & also stopped settlements in all lands west of the Appalachians?
Proclamation of 1763
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What document sad colonies were "subordinate" to England?
Declaratory Act
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What war prepared colonists for the War of Independence by uniting them to defend their homes and families?
French and Indian War
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How did Royal colonies government work?
Controlled by king, colonists had some say in their government.
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Name at least three Royal colonies?
- Virginia New York
- North Carolina Georgia
- South Carolina New Jersey
- Georgia Massachusetts Bay
- New Hampshire
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How did proprietary colonies government work?
King granted a track of land to a nobleman(proprietor) who ruled it as he wanted
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Name two proprietary colonies.
- Pennsylvania
- Maryland
- Delaware
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How did self-governing colonies government work?
Goverened their own affairs without king or proprietor.
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Name one self-governing colonies?
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