Exam Review 1

A proclamation from the British government which forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east.

• Stono Rebellion

• Tuscarora Act

• Albany Plan of Union

• Proclamation of 1763

A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts

• Joint-stock company

• Triangle Trade Route

• Columbian Exchange

• Northwest Passage

A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

• Puritan

• Quaker

• Protestant

• Catholic

Religious group in England and America--settling mainly in Pennsylvania--whose members believed all persons possessed the "inner light," or the spirit of God; they were early proponents of the abolition of slavery and equal rights for women.

• Protestant

• Reformation

• Quakers (Society of Friends)

• Puritan

The first permanent English settlement in North America was

• Werowocomoco

• Yorktown

• Richmond

• Jamestown

the first governing document of Plymouth Colony

• House of Burgesses

• Bacons Rebellion

• Mayflower Compact

• Puritan Theocracy

Which colony, originally owned by the Dutch, was renamed after the King of England’s brother?

• New Jersey

• Georgia

• Viginia

• New York

Who was the founder of Pennsylvania?

• James Oglethorpe

• Pennsylvania Company of London

• Charles II

• William Penn

How was Georgia a “buffer colony”?

• It protected the Carolinas from French Louisiana.

• It protected New England from French Canada.

• It protected the Carolinas from Spanish Florida.

• It protected Virginia from Spanish Cuba.

What group in England was provided new opportunity in Georgia?

• Catholics

• Quakers

• Puritans

• Debtors