3.1-3.3

Question 1

year Harvard college was founded

Answer 1

1636

Question 2

year of the Ole’ Deluder Satan Act

Answer 2

1647

Question 3

most American settlers were from ______

Answer 3

England

Question 4

the American settlers were primarily from England, and the next two largest groups were ____ and ____

Answer 4

Scots-Irish and German

Question 5

by the War for Independence, America’s population was ____

Answer 5

2.5 million

Question 6

the largest colonial city

Answer 6

Philadelphia

Question 7

church of New England

Answer 7

Congregational

Question 8

church of the middle colonies

Answer 8

allowed for diversity and freedom

Question 9

church of the southern colonies

Answer 9

Anglican

Question 10

social classes of America

Answer 10

upper class (aristocracy), middle class, lower class

Question 11

US social classes were based on what?

Answer 11

wealth, not birth

Question 12

what was the livelihood of most colonists

Answer 12

90% of the colonists lived by farming

Question 13

name for the middle colonies

Answer 13

“bread colonies”

Question 14

what colonies were know for indigo and rice?

Answer 14

southern colonies

Question 15

small, fixed annual fee and which colonies it is found in

Answer 15

Quitrent (NE)

Question 16

parcel of land given to each settler who paid for an indentured servant’s passage; and the colonies it is found in

Answer 16

headright system; southern colonies

Question 17

large cities were connected by _____

Answer 17

post roads

Question 18

colonies with lumber industry

Answer 18

NE and middle

Question 19

true or false: all colonies had a shipbuilding industry

Answer 19

true

Question 20

colonies with a fishing/whaling industry

Answer 20

NE

Question 21

colonies with a fur trade industry

Answer 21

frontier

Question 22

manufacturing done in the home

Answer 22

domestic system

Question 23

routes of trade between Europe, Africa, and the US

Answer 23

triangular trade routes

Question 24

greatest portraitist of colonial times

Answer 24

John Singleton Copley

Question 25

first notable composer born in America

Answer 25

William Billings

Question 26

a movement which departed from traditional beliefs about God, man, and the universe

Answer 26

Enlightenment

Question 27

best-known American scientist of the colonial era

Answer 27

Benjamin Franklin

Question 28

made the smallpox vaccine

Answer 28

Cotton Mather

Question 29

explorer who guided colonists to Kentucky on the Wilderness Road; built a town

Answer 29

Daniel Boone (town was named Boonesborough)

Question 30

route Daniel Boone took

Answer 30

Wilderness Road

Question 31

America's first college

Answer 31

Harvard College

Question 32

college founded in Cambridge, Mass. in 1636

Answer 32

Harvard College

Question 33

schools found in NE colonies

Answer 33

common schools

Question 34

_____ required towns with 50 families to have a teacher

Answer 34

Ole' Deluder Satan Act

Question 35

paddle shaped object that held paper

Answer 35

hornbook

Question 36

most widely used textbook in colonial America

Answer 36

New England Primer

Question 37

schools in the middle colonies

Answer 37

Latin schools, replaced eventually by academics

Question 38

schools of the south

Answer 38

private tutors or field schools

Question 39

___ colleges were founded during the colonial era

Answer 39

9

Question 40

the only college in the South

Answer 40

College of William and Mary

Question 41

wrote Poor Richard's Almanac; yearly publications of weather predictions, stories, jokes, etc.

Answer 41

Benjamin Franklin

Question 42

college founded in 1701

Answer 42

Yale

Question 43

founded in 1747

Answer 43

Princeton (College of New Jersey)

Question 44

first book in English printed in the colonies

Answer 44

Bay Psalm Book

Question 45

first regularly published newspaper

Answer 45

Boston News-Letter

Question 46

first privately owned newspaper

Answer 46

New-England Courant

Question 47

put on trial for criticizing the governor of New York in his paper

Answer 47

John Peter Zenger (1735)