Accp American History

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Commander of the colonial army during the Revolution

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George Washington

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He road with Paul Revere, but popular history doesn't mention him.

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Samuel Prescott

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He started the "Great Awakening" in the colonies

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John Edwards

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Founded the Rhode Island Colony on the principle of religious freedom

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Roger Williams

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Founded Pennsylvania as a Quaker colony

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William Penn

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He was a printer by trade, but became a leading figure of the "Enlightenment" and of the Revolution

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Ben Franklin

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Wrote "Case for Conscious", which ended the witch trials in Salem

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Increase Mather

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First leader and founding of Massachusetts bay Colony, and author of the "City Upon a Hill" sermon

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John Winthrop

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Commander of Colonial forces, his "America First" strategy won the French and Indian War

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William Pitt

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He defended the British troops involved in the massacre, but then became the loudest voice for war with Britain in the continental congress

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John Adams

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He gave the Indians small pox infested blankets, when the disease spread it brought an end to Pontiac's Rebellion

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General Amherst

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He helped bring the French into the American Revolution, and became a valuable aide in the war

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Gilbert de La Fayette

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Using discipline and drilling, he turned the colonial army into a professional army during the Revolution

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Fredrick Wilhelm Von Steuben

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He wrote the Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Jefferson

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He gave the Indians small pox infested blankets, when the disease spread it brought an end to Pontiac's Rebellion

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General Amherst

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He helped bring the French into the American Revolution, and became a valuable aide in the war

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Gilbert de La Fayette

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Using discipline and drilling, he turned the colonial army into a professional army during the Revolution

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Fredrick Wilhelm Von Steuben

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He wrote the Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Jefferson

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Was the Pastor of Salem Village during the witch trials in Salem

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Samuel Parris

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Capital of the Aztec Empire, it was the largest city in the world when Europeans arrived in the New World

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Tenochtitlan

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Mound city of the Mississippian Indian, it is located outside of St. Louis

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Cahokia

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She married John Rolfe and died of disease in England. Legend has us believing she married John Smith

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Pocahontas

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People with a Spanish father and Native American mother

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Mestizos

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First Indian poeple to be slaughter by the British in North America, their down fall became the British strategy when dealing with Natives and their land

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Pequot

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A form of Indian currency in North America, it was made from sea shells

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Wampum

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A Pueblo leader, he lead successful attacks that forced the Spanish out of present day New Mexico

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Pope

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One of the first Native American Empires in North America, they were located in the southwest and built religious structures underground

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Anasazi

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A city built by the MAyan Civilization, Europeans didn't believe the natives had the ability to build it, and suggested that aliens may have built it

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Palenque

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Lead a series of attacks against British Forts in the Ohio region after the British became hostile to his people after the French and Indian War

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Pontiac

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A large ranch in Spanish controlled America

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Hacienda

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What was the Agricultural Revolution?

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When people started to plant crops and domesticate crops

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What is cultural diffusion?

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When on culture adopts and adapts a cultural trait of another culture to its own

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What are three ways cultural diffusion spreads?

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War, Trade, Migration

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A Spanish explorer was known as...

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A Conquistador

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The first Europeans to "discover" the New World were ...

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Vikings

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The Native American people that Columbus encountered, they became extinct within a generation of Columbus' arrival

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Tiano

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What was Christopher Columbus' first reaction tot he natives he encountered?

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Believed them to be peaceful, physically fit, and they would make good slaves

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He lead a rebellion on the island of Hispaniola against the Spanish who occupied his lands and enslaved his people

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Enrique

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The Treaty of Tordesillas establish...

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Portuguese's rule in the East and Spanish rule in the West

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He lead his men against the Aztec, and despite his small band of men he was able to defeat and enslave the Aztec

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Cortez

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What was the Great Biological Exchange or Columbus Exchange?

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An exchange of plants, animals, and disease between the eastern and western hemispheres

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What are 4 goods exchanged in the Great Biological Exchange?

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Coffee, Potato, Smallpox, Horses

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What was the primary reason the Spanish wanted to colonize the new world?

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To search for gold

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What was the primary reason the catholic church wanted to colonize the new world?

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To christianize the natives

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The Spanish priest who chronicled the brutality and indecency of the Spanish's treatment of the native population

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De Las Casas

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The Native American Tribe that traded and later fought the first English settlement of Jamestown

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The Powhatan

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How was England able to gain control of the seas and colonize North America?

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Spanish fleet was destroyed by the "Protestant Wind"

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What factor lead to the decline of the Lost Colony of Roanoke?

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Drought

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What does a colony need from the king in order to be established

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Royal Charter

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An economic venture when people pool their money to start a colony

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Joint Stock

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A process by which a person would pay for their passage to Jamestown and receive 50 acres to farm upon arrival

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Headright

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The colony of Jamestown's main export was...

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Tobacco

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The Native American Tribe that trade and later fought the first English settlement of Jamestown

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The Powhatan

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Which English colony in the new world was the first to receive slaves?

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Jamestown

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What religious principle is the basis of Calvanism?

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Predestination

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The Pilgrims wanted to .... in regards to the English Church, while the Congregationalist wanted to...the English Church

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Separate, Reform

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In the colonies, Free men were allowed to do what?

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Vote

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The colony of New York...

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was built upon the conquest of a dutch fur trading settlement

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The Puritans who settled New England hoped to...

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Create a religious society that purged Catholicism from Anglicanism

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Squanto, who helped the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock survive, was a member of what Indian Nation

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Wampanoag

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Spectral Evidence, which was used to incriminate most condemned witches is...

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Evidence that cannot be proved

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What factor lead to conflict between the Native Americans and colonists

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Land

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What factor allow Shipbuilding to dominate New England industries

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Abundance of trees

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The Puritans who settled New England hoped to...

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Create a religious society that purged Catholicism from Anglicanism

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Squanto, who helped the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock survive, was a member of what Indian Nation

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Wampanoag

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Spectral Evidence, which was used to incriminate most condemned witches is...

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Evidence that cannot be proved

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What factor lead to conflict between the Native Americans and colonists

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Land

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What factor allow Shipbuilding to dominate New England industries

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Abundance of trees

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The Puritans who settled New England hoped to...

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Create a religious society that purged Catholicism from Anglicanism

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Squanto, who helped the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock survive, was a member of what Indian Nation

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Wampanoag

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Spectral Evidence, which was used to incriminate most condemned witches is...

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Evidence that cannot be proved

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What factor lead to conflict between the Native Americans and colonists

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Land

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What factor allow Shipbuilding to dominate New England industries

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Abundance of trees

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The Puritans who settled New England hoped to...

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Create a religious society that purged Catholicism from Anglicanism

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Squanto, who helped the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock survive, was a member of what Indian Nation

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Wampanoag

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Spectral Evidence, which was used to incriminate most condemned witches is...

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Evidence that cannot be proved

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What factor lead to conflict between the Native Americans and colonists

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Land

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What factor allow Shipbuilding to dominate New England industries

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Abundance of trees