In 1619 the Virginia settlements each elected two representatives to meet with the governor and his council at Jamestown and make laws for the colony. What was this elected body called?

Between 1686 and 1688 James II merged Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New York and the Jerseys under one royally appointed governor and council, with no elected assembly at all. What was this creation called?

In New England the freemen of a town gathered to vote local taxes, admit new inhabitants and choose the selectmen who ran the town's business for the year. What was this gathering called?

Massachusetts Bay's charter created a trading company's governing body, but from 1634 the towns sent elected deputies to sit in it and it became the colony's legislature. What was that body called?

England granted some colonies to an individual or a family, who owned the land and named the governor. What was a colony held on those terms called?

In 1734 New York's governor had a printer jailed for seditious libel over attacks printed in the printer's own newspaper. Who was the printer?

The Mayflower's passengers agreed in 1620 'to enacte, constitute, and frame shuch just & equall lawes, ordinances, Acts, constitutions, & offices ... vnto which we promise all due submission and obedience'. What did that clause establish?

Maryland's Act Concerning Religion of 1649 said that no person 'professing to beleive in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth bee any waies troubled, Molested or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion'. Whom did that clause protect?

A plan of government adopted at Hartford in 1639 ordered 'that there shall be yearly two General Assemblies or Courts', the April one a Court of Election choosing the magistrates and a governor for the year ahead. What did that create?

Pennsylvania's Charter of Privileges of 1701 said no inhabitant acknowledging one Almighty God shall be 'molested or prejudiced in his or their person or estate' for conscience, or 'compelled to frequent or maintain any religious worship'. What did it bar?

Rhode Island's royal charter of 1663 let the colonists 'hold forth a lively experiment' that a flourishing civil state could stand 'with a full liberty in religious concernments'. What did that permit the colony to do?

The Massachusetts Body of Liberties of 1641 opened by barring the taking of any man's life, good name, person or estate 'unless it be by virtue or equity of some express law of the country warranting the same'. What did that limit?

Anne Hutchinson held meetings in her Boston house where she discussed the week's sermons and taught that salvation came by grace alone, naming ministers she said preached otherwise. What became of her in 1637 and 1638?

By the 1660s many New England adults who had been baptized as infants had never testified to a conversion experience, so their own children could not be baptized. What did the ministers' synod of 1662 decide?

George Whitefield preached outdoors to enormous crowds from Georgia to New England in 1739 and 1740, often without any invitation from the settled minister of the place. What did his tour do to the colonial churches?

In July 1741 Jonathan Edwards preached 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God' at Enfield, and listeners cried out aloud before he finished. What style of preaching did the awakening make common in the colonies?

Virginia taxed every parishioner to support its established Church of England parish, whatever that person believed. What happened there as Baptist preachers won converts in the 1760s and 1770s?

Puritan families left England for Massachusetts Bay by the thousand during the 1630s. What drove that migration?

Massachusetts Bay made it a capital offense for a banished Quaker to return, and hanged four of them on Boston Common between 1659 and 1661. How did the crown respond in September 1661?

A minister banished from Massachusetts Bay in 1635 for denying that magistrates had authority over conscience bought land from the Narragansett and founded Providence in 1636. Who was he?

At the New York seditious libel trial of 1735, a Philadelphia lawyer admitted that his client had printed the attacks but told the jury that a true statement could not be a libel, and the jury acquitted. Who was the lawyer?

In June 1636 this minister led about a hundred members of his Newtown congregation overland with their cattle to the Connecticut River, where they settled Hartford and he served as pastor until his death. Who was he?

Colonial assemblies were elected, but the electorate was narrow. Who could actually vote for an assembly in most colonies?

An assembly quarreled bitterly with its royal governor over the instructions he had brought from London. What was the one thing the assembly could not do to him?

A colonial assembly passed a law and the governor signed it. What could still happen to that law once word of it reached England?