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175 Cards in this Set
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The study of ancient peoples
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archaeology
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earliest Americans' way of life
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nomadic hunters
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a highly developed society
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civilization
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pictures that represent words
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hieroglyphics
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built stone pyramids
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Maya
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invented the cotton gin
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Eli Whitney
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Dictator of Mexico
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Santa Anna
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Era of Good Feelings
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Monroe
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Tribe who avoided removal
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Seminoles
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Claimed Texas as home
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Tejanos
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Sauk Chief
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Black Hawk
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President Panic of 1837
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Martin VanBuren
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Legitimate Cherokee Chief
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John Ross
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How Texas was added
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Annex
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Died in Office
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Harrison
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Indian territory is in what State?
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Oklahoma
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Removed the Cherokee
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Andrew Jackson
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The border that Americans wanted
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Rio Grande
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Supreme Court case to allow Cherokees
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Worcester v. Georgia
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Expansion and President
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John Polk
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Reason Texas took over 9 years to become a state
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slavery
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Allow Jackson to use military to enforce laws
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Force Bill
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Treaty for CA and New Mexico
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Guadouloupe Hidalgo
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54 40 or fight for this territory
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Oregon
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Jackson lost his first election because of
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Corrupt bargain
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Legitimate Cherokee chief
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John Ross
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A part of the country who refused to pay Tariff of 1828
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South
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Last purchase to finish continental US
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Gadspen Purchase
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Texas' commander
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Sam Houston
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Treaty to get Florida
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Adams-Onis Treaty
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Jackson's political party
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Democratics
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Jackson's Vice President
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John C. Calhoun
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Replace federal works with his friends
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Spoil system
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Idea that we needed to spread to pacific coast
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Manifest Destiny
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President during acquisition of Texas
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Polk
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Was california a slave state or free state?
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Free state
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Indian Territory is located in?
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Oklahmoma
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Who led the majority of the Cherokee
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John Ross
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4,000 died on this trail
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Trail of Tears
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Election of 1824 was decided by
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House of Representatives
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Name of the deal that won Adam's his election?
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Corrupt Bargain between Adams and Clay
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State that passed Nullification Act?
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South Carolina
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State that Cherokee sued?
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Georgia
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Jackson's response to the Nullification Act?
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Force Bill
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Vice President who encouraged State's rights?
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John C. Calhoun
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He received the most electoral and popular votes in election of 1824
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Jackson
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Election of 1824 was decided by?
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House of Representatives
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Name of the deal that won Adam's his election?
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Corrupt Bargain between Adams and Clay
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State that passed Nullifcation Act?
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South Carolina
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State that Cerokee sued?
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Georgia
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Jackson's response to the Nullification Act?
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Force Bill
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Vice President who encouraged State's rights?
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John C. Calhoun
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He received the most electoral and popular votes in election of 1824?
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Jackson
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Secretary of State in 1824
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hENRY cLAY
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wON ELECTION OF 1824?
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John Quincy Adams
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Southern name for Tariff of 1818?
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Tariff of Abomination
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Who are civilian soldiers?
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Militia
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Bank President
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Nicholas Biddle
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1st president to take over because of death?
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John Tyler
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Franklins unifying plan?
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Albany Plan of Union
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Chief Justice is ruled in favor of the Cherokees?
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John Marshall
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First Written Constitution in US
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Fundamentals Orders of Connecticut
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Whig Party's campaign for?
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Log cabin campaign
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Tax on all printed materials?
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Stamp Act
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Tribe to successfully blocked their removal?
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Seminoiles
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Washington's first fort?
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Fort Necessity
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Replacing government with winning supporters?
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Spoils System
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An attempt to ruin opponent's reputation?
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Mudslinging
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This state threatened to secede because of the Tariff of 1828
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South Carolina
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John Tyler became president because?
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President Harrison died
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Congress passed this act in order to relocate Native Americans?
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Indian Removal Act
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Why did the Democratic Republic Party split in the election of 1818?
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to support Jackson or Adams
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What job did Henry Clay receive after helping Adams win the election of 1824?
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Secretary of State
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What section of the country refused to pay the tariff of 1828
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the South
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The corrupt bargain got who the job of present?
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John Quincy Adams
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had a matrilineal society
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Iroquois
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broad platforms cut into slopes
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terraces
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great stone dwellings
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pueblo
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society rules by religious leaders
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theocracy
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movement of a large number of people
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migration
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What Colony goes with:
Catholics |
Maryland
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What Colony goes with:
Quakers |
Pennsylvania
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What Colony goes with:
Debtors |
Georgia
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What Colony goes with:
Separatists |
Plymouth
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What Colony goes with:
Puritans |
Maryland
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What Government goes with the Connecticut Colony?
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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What Government goes with the Rhode Island Colony?
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Representative Government
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What Government goes with the Plymouth Colony?
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Mayflower Compact
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What Government goes with the Jamestown Colony?
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House of Burgesses
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What Government goes with the New York Colony?
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Proprietary Colony
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This leader goes with what colony?
Calvert Family |
Maryland
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This leader goes with what colony?
John Smith |
Jamestown
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This leader goes with what colony?
George Carteret |
New Jersey
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This leader goes with what colony?
William Bradford |
Plymouth
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This leader goes with what colony?
Thomas Hooker |
Connecticut
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All of the people on the Mayflower were Pilgrims
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false
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Most of the colonists in Maryland were Catholics
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false
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We still have parts of Dutch Heritgage here in Albany
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true
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The Spanish had the best relationship with the Native Americans
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false
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James Oglethorpe was the leader of Georgia
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true
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Massachusetts Bay Colony practiced religious toleration
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false
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Quakers were pacifists
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true
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New Jersey was a huge financial success in the colonial period
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false
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New York and PA farmers grew cash crops
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true
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Most of the German immigrants who came to America during the colonial period settled in what is now New York
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false
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To make money from trade, England neededto export more goods than it imported.
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true
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The first public education law was passed in PA
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false
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The French and Indian War was between France and Native Americans
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F
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The Navigation Acts angered the colonits because they restricted trade
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true
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All free men could vote for colonial goverment
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false
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Early people were able to settle the Americas because of what geographic element?
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Beringia
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The discovery of ??? turned nomands into farmers?
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maize
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What do archaeologists do to find out how old an artifact is?
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carbon dating
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Civilizations include all of the following except?
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calendar system
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Mayan priests' interest in Astronomy led to the creation of
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a 365 day calendar
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The capital of the Aztec Empire was?
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Tenochititlan
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The Maya and Aztec organized their society around?
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religion
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These early Ohio people built huge mound burial grounds?
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Hopewell
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Proobably the last people that crossed the land bridge to North America were?
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The Intuits
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Which of the following groups settled first on an island?
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The Aztec
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Among the Iroquois, women had the right to?
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choose council members
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Many scientists believe that the first humans came to America from?
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Asia
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Quechua and Quipus were used by what civiliation?
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Inca
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Hernan Cortez ended which Meso American Civilization?
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Aztec
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Which group depended heavily on Salmon fishing?
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Northwest Tribes
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In which ways were the the Mayans, Aztecs and Incas similar?
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they created well organized societies
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The Iroquois were characterized by their
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democratic practices in some governmental activities
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One reason why groups of Native Americans often developed different cultures was that each group?
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adapted to their environment in a different way
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Earthen Mounds created by the Hopewell were for:
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burial grounds
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What theme of geography deals with how humans effect the environment?
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human environmental interation
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What primary source would provide the most accurate information about pre-Columbia Indians?
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artifacts left by Indians
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Culture is?
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religious of a group;
food of a group; clothing of a group |
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Would pottery from the 1400's be considered artifacts?
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yes
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Would present day textbook be considered artifacts?
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no
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The Anasazi built cliff dwellings to:
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protect themselves from ground animals
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Who were the first Indians that Columbus encountered?
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Tainos
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In 1001 Viking sailors were led by:
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Leif Erikson
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Where did tomatoes come from:
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Americas
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France's most important economic activity in North America was
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fur trading
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The economic activity that kept Jamestown successful was:
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gold
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New York was originally a ???? settlement?
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Spanish
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Which colony was not created for religious freedom?
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Connecticut
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He was the Governor of New Amsterdam that was in charge when the English took over?
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Peter Minuet
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William Penn received his land because?
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he won a bet
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The group which ha the best relationship with the Native Americans were the?
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French
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The First written Constitution in US history was?
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The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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The first US townn planner was?
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William Penn
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Who led the Georgia colony?
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James Oglethorpe
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Most of the original 13 colonies were created for?
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Religious freedom
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He was banished from Massachusetts and started Rhode Island
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Roger Williams
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Separatists wanted to?
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leave the Protestant church and form their own church
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Puritans wanted to?
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reform the Anglican Church
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Spanish missions were set along what coast?
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Pacific
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The type of farming practicied in New England was
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subsistance
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The type of farming practiced in New York was
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cash crop
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How did England view its North American colonies?
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as an economic resource
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What proposal sought to unite the American colonies against the French?
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Albany Plan of Union
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The Seven Years' War was a war between
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France and Britain
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Which leader recognized that British settlers threatened the Native Americans' way of life?
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Pontiac
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The hub of the shipping trade in North America was in
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New England
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Labor for the Southern rice fields was provided by:
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Enslaved Africans
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What theory holds that a national's power depended on its wealth
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mercantilism
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What plan called for one general government for all the American colonies?
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Albany Plan of Union
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The Treat of Paris marked the end of power in North America for:
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France
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Which man changed Britain's fortune in the war with France?
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William Pitt
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The leg of the triangular trade route in which enslaved Africans were shipped to the West Indies was down as the
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Middle Passage
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Three letter word that means same as law?
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ACT
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What is the purpose of merchantilism?
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make a profit for as many people as possible, especially the mother country
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How does a mother country make money?
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By selling manufactured goods to her colonies and also to other countries
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Who was the French and Indian War fought between?
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British and French
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Who won French and Indian War?
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French
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What was the French and Indian War fought over?
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Ohio River Valley
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The first tax imposed on colonists after the French and Indian War was what?
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Stamp Act
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Who protested the Stamp Act and what was the group called that he organaged?
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Sam Adams
Sons of Liberty |
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Where did Sam Adams live?
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Boston
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