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65 Cards in this Set
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Who wrote Common Sense? |
Thomas Paine |
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What English monarch left the Catholic Church? |
Henry VIII |
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Who interprets the laws? |
The Judicial Branch |
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What countries were involved in the Pinckney Treaty? |
Spain and United States |
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Who led the Green Mountain Boys? |
Ethan Allen |
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What was Rhode Island known for? |
Religious Freedom |
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Who was the best known missionary to the Indians? |
David Brainerd |
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What established the town school system? |
Old Deluder Satan Act |
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Who was the first secretary of state? |
Thomas Jefferson |
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What type of government was established by the Articles of Confederation? |
Confederacy |
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What was the basis of the colonies successful economy? |
Agriculture |
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Who introduced the smallpox vaccine? |
Cotton Mather |
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What type of government was America founded as? |
Republic |
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What colonies were known as the bread colonies? |
Middle Colonies |
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In what colony was the House of Burgesses begun? |
Jamestown |
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What is Philadelphia known as? |
"City of Brotherly Love" |
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What revived interest in the Far East? |
The Crusades |
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What was Jonathan Edwards most famous sermon? |
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
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What was America’s first capitol? |
New York City |
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Alexander Hamilton stood for what kind of construction? |
Loose Construction |
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What prepared England for limited government? |
Magna Carta |
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What established English tradition in America? |
The French and Indian War |
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What was Pennsylvania founded as? |
Haven for Quakers |
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What was the first permanent European settlement in America? |
St Augustine |
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What was the first permanent French settlement? |
Quebec |
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What was the most widely read textbook in America? |
New England Primer |
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What did Bacon’s Rebellion show the people expected? |
Colonists expected the Governments protection |
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What were the Bill of Rights? |
First 10 Amendments to the US Constitution |
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What is John Paul Jones famous quote? |
"I have not yet begun to fight!" |
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What was the Great Compromise? |
Combination of the Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan |
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What is the purpose of the government according to the Constitution? |
Protect the life and property of the people |
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How did the Constitution protect against man’s sinful nature? |
Balance between the branches of the government and checks to limit power |
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What did the Stamp Act do? |
placed a tax on all legal documents |
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What did Benjamin Franklin publish? |
Poor Richards Almanac |
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What is the Cabinet? |
A group of presidential advisers |
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Who controlled royal colonies? |
The King |
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What did Benedict Arnold do? |
Betrayed the Colonists to help the British during the War for Independence |
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What patriot victory ended the war? |
Yorktown VA |
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Where were the Hessians captured on Christmas Night? |
Trenton NJ |
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What battle began with the “shot heard ‘round the world”? |
Lexington |
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What was the turning point in the War for Independence? |
Saratoga |
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Where did the Continental Army spend the winter of 1777-1778? |
Valley Forge |
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What was the first major battle of the War for Independence? |
Bunker Hill |
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Why did the colonists fight the War for Independence? |
Their religious and political freedoms were being attacked |
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What is the free enterprise economic system? |
Each man is able to profit only from his own labors and is responsible to himself |
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What is the common store economic system? |
All men receive benefit from the labor of the few who work |
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Which one is better: common store or free enterprise? |
Free Enterprise |
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What did the Great Awakening do for America? |
Prepared the colonists for religious and political freedom |
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Who was the first secretary of the treasury? |
Alexander Hamilton |
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Who was the first governor of the Plymouth colony? |
John Carver |
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Who was Marquis de Lafayette? |
Adviser and aide to George Washington |
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Who discovered the Mississippi? |
Hernando de Soto |
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Who discovered the Pacific Ocean? |
Vasco de Balboa |
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Who founded Bethlehem, Pennsylvania? |
The Moravians |
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Who founded the Philadelphia Academy? |
Benjamin Franklin |
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Founding of Harvard |
1636 |
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Founding of Jamestown |
1607 |
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Adopting the Declaration of Independence |
July 4, 1776 |
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Columbus discovers New World |
1492 |
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First shots of the War for Independence |
April 19, 1775 |
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Bill of Rights |
1791 |
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Protestant Reformation |
1517 |
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French and Indian War |
1754-1763 |
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Treaty of Paris that ended War for Independence |
1783 |
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Defeat of the Spanish Armada |
1588 |
