1St Semester Exam Study Guide

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Wanted to separate from Church of England

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The pilgrims( protestants)

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Had a love hate relationship and had good times and bad times with each other

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Colonists and Native Americans

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Puritan migration

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Usually a family affair. Which means families migrated to America

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Were not very tolerant of other religions.

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Most Puritans

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Why did the Puritans come to America?

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To build a "pure" city ("a city upon a hill")

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What was the most important part of every Puritan community?

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The church

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Where did Puritan community issues and political issues take place?

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In town meetings

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What was the Mayflower compact?

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A document created by the pilgrims to provide a legal basis for their colony.

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Pilgrims

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The first English separatist to come to America.

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Commons

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Public grazing areas where Puritans built their towns around.

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What were important parts of new England economy and which one was the most profitable?

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Fishing, fur trapping and ship building.

Fur trapping

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What did life on the frontier make settlers?

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Self reliant( able to depend on themselves).

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Why was Georgia founded?

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It was founded as a refuge for colonist who are poor and in debt.

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What was the most deadly problem faced by early Jamestown settlers?

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Disease

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Virginia farmers established large farms known as _________.

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Plantations

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What was the center of daily life for most Virginia farmers?

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The Plantation

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What were most early Virginia farmers focused on?

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Making Money

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Where did Virginia children receive their education?

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At home

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When did the first Africans arrived in Virginia?

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1619

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What were the major cash crops in the southern colonies?

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Tobacco, rice and indigo.

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Indentured servants

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Worked for seven years to pay off their passage to America

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Bacon's rebellion

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In 1676 a group of Virginia farmers began attacking nearby American Indians.

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What is Philadelphia?

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The capital city of William Penn's colony of Pennsylvania. The name Philadelphia means brotherly love.

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What is a favorable balance of trade?

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When a country exports more than imports.

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Enumerated articles

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Colonial goods that could only be sold in English territory

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Colonial assemblies

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Elected bodies in North American colonies that made local laws, raise taxes, and decided house money was spent.

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The privy Council

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Colonial policy was set by the monarchs principal advisors Aka the privy council

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The navigation acts

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Require that certain goods be sold only to England in English ships and some goods had to stop in England first before they could be shipped to other countries

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How did colonial merchants do business?

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They generally sold their goods to England and then spend their money on manufactured goods that were made in England.

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Who got voting rights?

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White men who owned property.

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The French and Indian war

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The struggle to control the Ohio River Valley

was a battle between the French and Indians against the English colonies and Britain

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The results of the French and Indian war

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The French lost control of the Ohio River Valley and was driven out of North America and Spain gave Florida to England as a result of the French and Indian war

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Who organized a rebellion against the colonies to drive the settlers back to the side of the Appalachian Mountains?

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Pontiac

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Proclamation of 1763

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Prevented anyone from settling west of the Appalachians

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Why did Britain need money?

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To pay back money it had borrowed to fight the French and Indian war and to protect the colonists from Indian attacks

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The stamp act

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Made people pay for stamps that had to be attached to all printed material.

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How did the colonists react to the stamp act?

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They held protests, boycotts, forming the stamp act Congress and forming the sons of liberty

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Quartering act

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Required colonists to house soldiers

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What did the colonists commonly call the British troops?

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Red coats

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What taxes were repealed in the Townsend acts?

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All of the taxes on glass paper and lead except for the tax on tea.

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Who defended the British soldiers on trial for the Boston massacre?

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John Adams

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The tea act

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Gave the British East India Company the right to sell Tea directly to the colonists rather than to shops.

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The Boston tea party

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A colonial protest against the Tea tax

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The battles of Lexington and Concord

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Marks the start of the revolution

The Minutemen hid behind trees and in hollows

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Who was appointed by the second Continental Congress to command the Continental Army?

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George Washington

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The olive branch petition

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Was sent to King George the third after the battle of Bunker Hill

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Not everyone and the colonies wanted________ from England

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Freedom

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Who wrote common sense?

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Thomas Paine

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Who was the main author of the declaration of independence?

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Thomas Jefferson

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Did the DOI include everyone in the colonies when it stated life liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

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No

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Who was Ben Franklin?

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A well known scientist and inventor.

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Who made the famous quote "give me liberty or give me death"

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Patrick Henry