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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?”

____________ included all the New England colonies (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Plymouth, Connecticut, New Haven, and Rhode Island) and in 1688 was enlarged by the addition of New York and New Jersey.  

In the second half of the seventeenth century, especially during the Restoration, England attempted to gain better control of trade with the American colonies, the mercantilist policies by which it tried to achieve this control are known as the 

Which of the following treaties resulted in the British Empire gaining mastery over North America by gaining New France under the treaty; it also acquired French sugar islands in the West Indies, French trading posts in India, and French-held posts on the west coast of Africa?

Although his first efforts against the Inca Empire in the 1520s failed, this conquistador captured the Inca emperor Atahualpa in 1532 and executed him one year later.

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?

On October 12, 1492, who made landfall on an island in the Bahamas, and then sailed to an island he named Hispaniola (present-day Dominican Republic and Haiti)?

What colony was small, consisting of only 117 people, who suffered a poor relationship with the local Croatans struggling to survive in their new land, and when John White returned from England, the entire colony had disappeared (known as the lost colony)?

Which of the following countries became a global power following the French and Indian War?

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.