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| 102745476 | Cahokia | By A.D. 1150, the Mississippian city of _____, near present-day St. Louis, held a population of 15,000 to 20,000. | |
| 102745477 | primogenitive | The European inheritance pattern known as _____ allowed fathers to bestow the bulk of their property on their eldest son. | |
| 102745478 | open | In traditional European peasant society, the _____-field system required that villagers farm the land cooperatively. | |
| 102745479 | Columbian Exchange | The transfer of plants and animals to the Americas from Europe and Africa and vice versa is known as the _____. | |
| 102745480 | Ferdinand, Isabel | The monarchs who financed Columbus's voyages to the Americas were King _____ of Aragon and Queen _____ of Castile. | |
| 102745481 | Predestination | _____ was the doctrine that stated that before one's birth God had already decided whether or not one would attain salvation. | |
| 102745482 | mercantilism | Those who demanded a state-directed economy in which national wealth would accumulate through the reduction of imports and the increase of exports were advocates of _____. | |
| 102745483 | yeomen | The "middle people of a condition between gentlemen and peasants" in English society were the _____. | |
| 102745484 | enclosure acts | The _____ were English laws that allowed landowners to fence in the open fields that surrounded many peasant villages. | |
| 102745485 | New Mexico | Popé, an Indian shaman led a successful uprising against Spanish rule in _____. | |
| 102745486 | Peter Stoyvsant | Governor _____, of New Amsterdam alienated settlers with his harsh, overbearing rule. | |
| 102745487 | John Rolfe, Powhatan | The English adventurer, _____, was primarily responsible for the development of commercial tobacco cultivation in Virginia and became the son-in-law of _____. | |
| 102745488 | House of Burgesses | Virginia's legislative body, the _____, first convened in 1619. | |
| 102745489 | Lord Baltimore (Calvert) | The proprietor who founded Maryland was _____. | |
| 102745490 | chattel slavery | During the 1660s in Virginia, Africans were indentured servants legally because English common law did not allow _____. | |
| 102745491 | Berkeley | In Bacon's Rebellion, militiamen defied the orders of Governor _____ and attacked Native American villages. | |
| 102745492 | Winthrop | _____ led the Puritan expedition to establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. | |
| 102745493 | hill | Puritan leaders likened their religious community to "a City upon a(n) _____" to admonish fellow settlers to set an example for Europe. | |
| 102745494 | Massachusetts Bay, Salem | In 1692, poor and resentful farmers living in the colony of _____ began to bring accusations of witchcraft against wealthier church members living near and in the town of _____. | |
| 102745495 | town meeting | Most adult men in New England Puritan communities had a vote in the _____, the main institution of local government. | |
| 102745496 | Pequot | In 1636, warriors of the _____ tribe attacked Puritan farmers who had begun to intrude on their lands in the Connecticut River Valley. | |
| 102745497 | praying towns | Settlements of New England Algonquian peoples who converted to Christianity were called _____. | |
| 102745498 | Metacom | _____, called King Philip's Rebellion by the English, led a coalition of tribes in attacks on New England settlements in 1875 and 1676. | |
| 102745499 | James, the Duke of York | The proprietor of the newly captured Dutch colony of New Netherland was _____. | |
| 102745500 | Sir Edmund Andros | James II sent _____ to rule the Dominion of New England. | |
| 102745501 | Jacob Leisler | In New York in 1691, _____ led a rebellion against the Domion of New England. | |
| 102745502 | sugar | England's West Indian wealth in the eighteenth century was based on the production of _____. | |
| 102745503 | Middle Passage | The slave trade voyage from Africa to the Caribbean or other parts of the Americas was known as the _____. | |
| 102745504 | 20 | By 1720, Africans numbered _____ percent of the Chesapeake population. | |
| 102745505 | Tobacco | _____ was the main slave-produced crop grown in the Chesapeake region of Virginia and Maryland in the 1700s. | |
| 102745506 | South Carolina | By the early eighteenth century, there were more Africans in the colony of _____ than there were whites. | |
| 102745507 | Stono | The governor of the Spanish colony of Florida promised freedom to fugitive slaves instigating the first major slave revolt in American history, the _____ Rebellion of 1739. | |
| 102745508 | gentility | As time passed, wealthy Chesapeake gentlemen began to model themselves on the English aristocracy by cultivating _____ refined but elaborate lifestyle. | |
| 102745509 | Philadelphia | By 1776, _____ was the largest port city in the American colonies, with a population of 30,000. | |
| 102745510 | salutary neglect | Edmund Burke praised Britain's mercantilist strategy of relaxing its oversight of internal colonial affairs as a policy of _____. | |
| 102745511 | 500, slavery | Because the colony of Georgia was intended for the poor, land grants were initially limited to _____ acres, and _____ was outlawed. | |
| 102745512 | German | In addition to immigrants from the British Isles, large numbers of _____-speaking people such as the Mennonites escaped religious upheaval to settle in Pennsylvania. | |
| 102745513 | Scots-Irish | The largest group of European immigrants to British North America between 1720 and 1776 was the _____. | |
| 102745514 | Deists | In the eighteenth century, persons called _____ believed that God had created the world and then allowed it to operate according to the laws of nature, but did not intervene in the historical process. | |
| 102745515 | Johnathon Edwards | In the 1730s, _____ - a Connecticut River Valley minister who was Puritan religious zeal waning - urged his audience to commit themselves to lives of piety and prayer. | |
| 102745516 | Great Awakening | The _____ was a religious revival in British North America during the eighteenth century in which a more emotional approach to religion tended to supplant both intellectual and ritualistic appoaches. | |
| 102745517 | Sir Isaac Newton | the English scientist, _____, probably did more than anyone else to advance "new learning" by his explanations of physical laws in Principia Mathematica. | |
| 102745518 | Albany | At the 1754 _____ Congress between Indian and colonial delegates, Benjamin Franklin proposed a Plan of Union calling for a permanent colonial assembly responsible for all western affairs. | |
| 102745519 | George Washington | A young Virginian named _____ led the first British attempt to dislodge the French from the upper Ohio River Valley in 1754. | |
| 102745520 | Pontiac | The Ottawa chief _____ led a general uprising of Ohio River Valley tribes against the British in 1763. | |
| 102745521 | Proclamation of 1763 | The British government tried to halt westward migration from the colonies by issuing the _____, which expressly prohibited white settlements west of the Appalachians. | |
| 102745522 | Industrial | Beginning in Britain during the middle of the eighteenth century, the _____ Revolution changed technology and the organization of economic production forever. | |
| 102745523 | Appalachian | The revival of proprietary power underscored the growing strength of the landed gentry, causing tenants and yeomen farmers to look for cheap land near the _____ Mountains. | |
| 102745524 | Paxton Boys | The _____, a band of Scots-Irish vigilantes in western Pennsylvania, escaped justice for their massacre of Native Americans in 1763. | |
| 102745525 | fornication | In the first half of the eighteenth century, many more New England women than men were prosecuted for the crime of _____, or having sexual intercourse outside of ... |
