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The Virginia Company which founded Jamestown in 1607, was a particular type of company called a |
joint-stock company |
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if colonists in virginia transported workers to virginia at their own expense, the company gave them lands called |
headright grants |
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the "merchantable commodity"which the virginia colonists finally identified was |
tobacco |
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the house of burgesses, established in 1619: |
had authority over taxes and finances |
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the colony of maryland was distinctive because |
charles I granted it to the calverts, who made it a catholic refuge |
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indentured servants: |
were men, women, and children who gained their freedom.. |
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William Penn wanted pennsylvania to be a |
holy experiment |
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the confrontation between virginia backcountry settlers and the indians, which turned into an attack on governor berkeley, is known as |
bacon's rebellion |
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bacon's rebellion revealed that |
blah blah blah conflict in the colonies between frontier and coastal areas |
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the spainard who took tenochtitlan and defeated the aztecs was |
hernan cortes |
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the spanish priest who condemned the spanish mistreatment of the indians and wrote the destruction of the indians was |
bartolome de las casas |
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the religious revolt against the roman catholic church led by martin luther is known as the |
protestant reformation |
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social and economic change in england promoted protestantism when inflation made fixed rents unprofitable because the landed elite, in order to have more land to run sheep, forced the poor off the land by taking over common or shared fields, which was called having the land: |
enclosed |
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in response to the proclamation of 1763: |
colonists ignored british law and pushed west across the appalachians |
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the repeal of the stamp act indicated that the british |
were willing to compromise with the colonists |
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the tea act of 1773 |
was an effort to save the british east india company from bankruptcy |
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the colonists were alarmed by the quebec act for all of the following reasons except |
it stated all official business of quebec would be conducted in french |
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the massachusetts minister who sparked the religious revivalism in the puritan colonies in the 1730s was |
jonathan edwards |
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the failure of the albany conference to bring greater unity to the colonies indicates |
the unwillingness of individual colonies to relinquish any of their powers |
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william pitt's policies leading to ultimate british victory in the seven years' war included all of the following except |
drafting of large numbers of colonists who became the core of british forces in north america |
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christianity for african americans |
was a religion of spiritual freedom that helped blacks survive oppression |
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leaders of slave revolts in the nineteenth century included |
gabriel prosser, nat turner, and denmark vesey |
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which of the following was the escaped slave who made 12 rescue missions, eventually freeing between 60 and 70 slaves |
harriet tubman |
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how would hinton helper's book the impending crisis be characterized |
d |
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the document that created a "civil body politic" and a measure of self-government among the pilgrims was the |
mayflower compact |
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when the puritans sailed to new england and established the massachusetts bay colony, the movement became known as the |
great migration |
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john winthrop, the first governor of massachusetts bay, advocated building a model society that would act as an example for england and referred to the settlement as |
a city on a hill |
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the erie canal |
set off a canal-building boom in other states |
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merchants who accumulated capital in international trade and then invested in other activities include all of the following except |
samuel slavr |
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the putting-out system: |
employed mostly unskilled workers doing piecework labor |
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the newly built new england textile mills were protected from british competition by all of the following except the |
american system |
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horace Mann advocated all of the following except |
putting abler children into private schools |
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one of the chief advocates of teacher training for women was |
catherine beether |
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the new reform prisons such as Sing Sing in new york were intended to |
rehabilitate the prisoners rather than punish them |
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mother ann lee was the founder of a utopian group called the |
A-96 |
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the bill of rights primarily protects |
the individual from the government and the majority |
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hamilton's fiscal program of 1790 included all of the following except having the federal government |
pay only the market value of securities held by americans |
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washington issued a proclamation of neutrality in april 1793 because he |
feared that ambassador genet's activites would bring war with britian |
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the meeting held july 19 and 20, 1814, in upper new york state to advocate rights for women became known as the |
seneca falls convention |
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the revolution that was considered the most radical of those passed by women reformers in upper new yor state in uly 1848 was the demand for women to have |
the first right to vote |
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one of the primary organizers of the reformation conference in upper new york state in july 1848 |
elizabeth cady stanton |
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the reason the battle of saratoga was important was that it |
convinced france to enter the war because the patriots had a chance to win |
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the first written constituion of the united states was |
articles of confederation |
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the legislation under the articles of confederation that provided for the survey and sale of western lands was the |
land ordinance of 1785 |
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publications such as the penny papers and stories of edgar allan poe suggest americans |
were fascinated by the violence around them |
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free african americans in northern cities faced all of the following except |
discrimination in their churches |
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the workingmen's party |
wanted to save the independent craftsman and his shop |
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the political machines |
offered the immigrants some help and a sense of community |
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those english protestants who believed that the church of england was too corrupt to be saved were called the |
puritans |
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the puritans of new england established the blah blah blah of |
republican rule |
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blah blah blah blah what would be the most powerful? |
tobacco |
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landless people who walked from town to town in search of work were known as the |
strolling poor |
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the 1662 decision by the puritan chuch that allowed children of members to participate in most church activites without a conversion experience was known as |
halfway covenant |
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the rationalist approach to religion in the early eighteenth century was challenged in the 1730s by the movement known as the |
great awakening |
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the first published poet in new england was |
anne bradstreet |
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religious disagreement in massachusetts bay led to all of the following except |
william bradford's decision to keep plymouth a seperate colony until 1961 |
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the principal founder of rhode island was |
roger williams |
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the supression of the whisky rebellion indicated all of the following except |
the national government proved that... |
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the united states argued that its natural rights were long violated by all of the following except |
boycotts of americanprodcts and ships |
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the era of good feelings was made possible by all of the following except |
rising power and renewed... |
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as secretary of state john quincy adams did all of the following except |
define the western.... |
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the glorious revolution of 1688 resulted in a change in the english monarchy so that it became a |
constitutional monarchy |
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the conflict of the 1690s, which was the first of several between england and france over a 75 year period was known in the colonies as |
king william's war |
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in 1619, slaves first arrived in the region that would become what state in america |
virginia |
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shay's rebellion |
led conservative nationalists to.... |
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what was the name of the convention at which a resolution passed requiring that states send delegates...? |
annapolis convention |
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who is the father of the constituion |
james madison |
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the great compromise included all of the following agreements except |
an immediate end to the slave trade |
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andrew jackson was eleted in 1825 based on all of the following except |
his political experience and thoughtful positions on the issues |
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calhoun supported the doctrine of nullification because |
he saw it as a way to protect the rights of minorities |
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the whig party and a second two party system developed |
in opposiion to jackson's acts based on claims of greater presidnetial power |
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the evangelical religion of Charles G Finnery and the second great awakening emphasized that |
a desire to be saved as shown by moral behavior was not enough |
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sentimentalism involved all of the following except |
warnings about the decietful practices of the urban buisness world |
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in common sense, the englishman thomas paine argued |
the foundation of the british system was inappropriate for america |
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all of the following led to the declaration of independence except |
widespread slave uprisings called for the british |
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in 1776, what two foreign powers approved the shipping of supplies to the rebellious colonies |
france and spain |
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the massachusetts ____puritans in 1734 was |
jonathan edwards |
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the anglican minister from england who brought the great awakening to the colonies was |
george whitefield |
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william peitt's policies leading to ultimate british victory in the seven years war included all of the following except |
drafting of large numbers of evi |
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some members of the group that was expelled from canada by the british |
cajuna |
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the painting the death of the general wife by blah blah depicts the british leader's demise at the 1759 battle at |
quelve |
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new france comparred to new spain, was more |
accepting of indian ways and belieefs |
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the french fur traders who moved into the woods and lived with the indians are known as |
coureurs de bois |
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what did the colony established on roanoke island becomek nown as |
the lost colony |
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for most europeans, like in the late middle ages might have be described as |
disspersed socially and politically but unified |
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___ the end of the middle ages, the blah indicator of coming change was he |
emergence of a new merchant class and more powerful monarchs |
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the renaisance is identified with the following centuries |
14th-16th |
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columbus's voyages show that he and his sponsors mainly |
wanted riches and power |
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he spanish institution that forced the indians to labor for spanish lords in virtual slavery was nown as |
encomeidia |
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in 1619 slaves first arrived in the region that would become what state in america |
virginia |