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50 Cards in this Set
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What river did the French settle in America by?
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ST Johns/Mississippi
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What religion was predominant in Maryland?
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Protestant
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Who was the organizing force in finding English colonies?
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Columbus
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What event is known as the American holocaust?
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Europeans arrive in America (Spaniards) and kill Indians
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Who were the original colonies financed by?
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England/London
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What is the Northern most point of the Spanish settlement?
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San Francisco (or maybe Santa Fe)
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What was the Chesapeake Bay are made up of in late 18th century?
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VA, MA, Carolinas, Georgia (immigrants)(mostly men)
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In the 1600’s, where were the first American blacks sold?
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Jamestown in 1619
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What was Virginia’s economic problem in late 17th century?
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Land became privately owned. 20% controlled 80%
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What did the southern colonies manufacture?
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Tobacco/cotton
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What was education like for children in the southern colonies?
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nonexistent
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What was different between the New England colonies and the Chesapeake?
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Religion (New England - escape religious persecution/Chesepeake-fame and fortune)
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What were some results of the Glorious Revolution?
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Soveriegnity resided in Parliament
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What was the American crop that was easily grown?
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Tobacco
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What was the British government like in the American colonies?
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???
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What was the system of Navigation Acts originated in the 1650s?
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Protect English shipping/Sceure profit for home country
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What were the restrictions of English mercantilism on the colonial economies?
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Manufacture before selling/Colonies were in debt to England
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What was the view that the universe is based on impersonal, scientific laws which govern the behavior of all matter, animate and inanimate?
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European Enlightenment/Age of Reason/God
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What was the purpose of the Proclamation of 1763?
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Reserve Indian Land
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Who was the militant Boston leader of resistance to the Tea Act and of the Boston "Tea Party"?
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Sam Adams
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In January 1776, who did the British hire to push the colonists toward independence?
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Hessian Soldiers
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What was the most overwhelming American defeat in the war was when General Clinton's captured what?
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Saratoga/Burgoyne
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During the Revolutionary War, what new constitution of replaced the office of governor with an elected council of twelve members?
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Declaration of Independence. !st was Pennsylvania
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What state was most successful in the movement to separate church and state?
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Virginia
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How did the Revolution affect attitudes toward the education of women?
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Better
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Where did most American citizens in the 1780s give their first loyalty to?
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The state
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What happened when the Revolution freed American trade from the restrictions of British mercantilism?
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You could now trade directly with Europe
To much influx from Britain, greater debt, cause DEPRESSION |
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Who proposed a convention in Philadelphia to deal with constitutional reform at the Annapolis meeting?
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Alexander Hamilton
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What Amendment to the Constitution was to mollify those who feared the states would be destroyed by the new government?
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10
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Who was the author of the Report on Manufactures?
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Hamilton
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What did Washington do when confronted by the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794?
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Built an army of 13,000 militiamen and went to Pennsylvania
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What was the French demand in 1797-1798 for a bribe as a precondition to negotiations with America called?
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XYZ Affair
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What happened in the election of 1800?
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Jefferson elected over Hamilton
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Who was the greatest naval hero of Jefferson's undeclared war with the Barbary pirates of Tripoli
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LT Stephen Decatur
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What was one of the purposes of Lewis and Clark expedition?
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FInd water route connecting mississippi to pacific, fur trade, useful plants, befriend indians
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What act made exports prohibited and only foreign vessels were allowed to import goods to America?
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Embargo Act
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What was one of the major American entries in the War of 1812?
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Perry takes lake erie
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What were some of the causes for the War of 1812?
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british responsible for indian difficulties
-low prices received for wheat and goods - loss of foreign markets |
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What major US city was sacked and burned by the British in 1814?
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Wash DC
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Why did the Monroe Doctrine have a warning against European interference in America?
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-Different Political system
-USA done and wants to concentrate on own independence |
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Who was the gregarious New York politician who never took a political position if he could avoid doing so?
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Van Buren
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Who developed the first American factory?
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Slater
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What happened in 1820 to interstate slave trade?
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Slave trade became an organized business
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Who was the mayor of New York City who organized information and political influence to convince the state legislature to construct the Erie Canal?
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Dewitt Clinton
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What did the Supreme Court's decision in Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) upheld?
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Contracts made by private company were protected by constitution and state could not alter
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What happened as a result of the revolution in cotton production?
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cotton was major force in economy for a generation
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As part of the social reforms accompanying the Revolution, all states which still had them abolished because?
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When did most of the Anti-Federalist opposition to the Constitution, especially in New York, disappear?
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Election of Jefferson
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What was one of the few points on which Jefferson agreed with Hamilton?
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Humans were selfish
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What was the most effective American action against British shipping in the War of 1812?
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Campaign fought around wash and Baltimore
-Naval battles on great lakes -defense of fort michilimachanic |
