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Which colony was created in 1681 when Charles II bestowed the largest proprietary colony in the Americas on William Penn to settle the large debt he owed the Penn family?

During the eighteenth century, the British Atlantic experienced an outburst of Protestant revivalism where evangelists came from the ranks of several Protestant denominations: Congregationalists, Anglicans (members of the Church of England), and Presbyterians was known as

In 1660, Parliament welcomed the son of the executed king Charles I, Charles II, back to the throne to resume the English monarchy and bring the interregnum to an end in what was known as  

Which of the following was a warlike people (also known as the Mexica) had left a city called Aztlán and traveled south to the site of present-day Mexico City, building Tenochtitlán on an island in Lake Texcoco. This group was a warrior race that performed ritual human sacrifices?

 At the age of seventeen, this individual ran away, eventually ending up in Quaker Philadelphia. There he began publishing the Pennsylvania Gazette in the late 1720s, and in 1732 he started his annual publication Poor Richard: An Almanack, in which he gave readers much practical advice, such as “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”  

The ____________, or the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith.  

This lasted from 1642 to 1649 and pitted the king, Charles I, and his Royalist supporters against Oliver Cromwell and his Parliamentary forces.  

In Northampton, Massachusetts, which of the following led still another explosion of evangelical fervor, involving using vivid depictions of the terrors of hell, his best-known sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” perfectly exemplifies this terrifying approach?  

Who argued that government was a form of contract between the leaders and the people, and that representative government existed to protect “life, liberty and property?”  

What was the name given to he conflict between the British and American colonist fighting the French and it’s Native America allies over dominance in western Pennsylvania or the Ohio River Valley (Called the Seven Years War in Europe)?