24. In 1753,_______________, then only 21 years old, had been dispatched by the colony’s governor on an unsuccessful mission to persuade French soldiers to abandon a fort they were using on lands claimed by the Ohio Company.

14. ______________ , English settlers believed, was the basis of liberty.

15. As a commodity with an ever-expending mass market in Europe ____________________ became Virginia’s substitute for gold.

8. Baron Montesquieu

1. Primary Source

5. Mayflower Compact

13. Not until the reign of ___________________ did the English turn their attention to North America.

20. ____________________________ was required to abide by the English Toleration Act of 1690 – that is, to allow all Protestants to worship freely.

10. At the beginning of the fifteenth century, one might have predicted that ___________________ would establish the world’s first global empire.

7, English Bill of Rights