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23 Cards in this Set
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The textbook, Who built America? is written to reflect
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the role of the working people in making American history
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The first americans came from
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East Asia
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Pre-Columbian Cliff Dwellrs were located
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Southwestern area of North America
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The Asian goods most disired by europeans were
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Spices
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The first european nation to search systematically for a new trade route to Asia was
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Portugal
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The Spanish expedition that conqered Mexico was captained by a shrewd and forceful soldier named
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Hernando Cortez
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A plague that caused massive numbers of death across Europe was
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The black Death
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Columbus's belief he could reach the Indies by sailing west was based in part on...
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his miscalculation of the size of the earth
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During the years after the conquest of Mexico, Spain's chief interset in the New World was in...
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Finding and seizing gold and sliver
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Was coptics a Native American people in Pre-Columbian America
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No
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The Protestant Reormation
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had its greatest effect in sounthrn Europe
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The House of Burgesses was
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The legislature of Virginia
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The survival of the Virginia colony was a sure thing only after the development of...
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tobacco culture
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Under te headright system, free land was given to
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anyone who came to the colony as head of a household
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England's break with Catholicism
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stemmed from henry VIII's support for Lutheran doctrine
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Would America provide homes for wealthy English aristocrats as motives in finding English Colonies
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NO
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name 3 people who left massachusetts as religious dissidents
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Anne Hutchinson, Thomas Hooker, Roger Williams
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Identured servants were
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labor that contracted to work for a specific number of years and then they were free
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Who Conqured New York
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Dutch
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Were all religious denominations welcomed in Pennsylvania
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Yes
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Sparatists wanted to
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worship only in the company of other Saints
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Puritans believed that
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a person's fate was predestined by G-d
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English mercantilists favored the southern colonies because they
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produced valuable "enumerated articles" such as tobacco and rice
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