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40 Cards in this Set
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document that urged King George to consider to return to "former harmony"
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Olive Branch Petition
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mixed Spanish Indian ancestry
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Mestizos
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to go against church teachings
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heresy
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came to Central and N. America to look for gold
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conquistadores
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belief in equality for white males
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egalitarianism
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England allowed colonies to make some of their own decisions which they benefited from because of this
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salutary neglect
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supporters of England during the American Revolution
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Loyalist
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supporters of the American colonies right to independence
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Patriot
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system of forced labor that Spanish used
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encomienda
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favorable if the country sold more goods than it bought
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balance of trade
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leader of native Americans
helped in the settlement of Jamestown |
Powhatan
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wrote the pamphlet Common Sense
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Thomas Paine
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led the British troops in the first battle of the French and Indian War
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George Washington
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conquered the Aztecs
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Cortez
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first governor of the Mass. Bay Colony
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John Winthrop
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the hated governor of the Dominion of New England
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Sir Edmund Andros
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explored the Southwest area which became the U.S.
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Coronado
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Quaker leader of one of the Middle Colonies
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William Penn
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wrote the Declaration of Independence
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Thomas Jefferson
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left the Mass. Bay Colony
believed in the seperation of church and state |
Roger William
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this turned Jamestown into a profitable settlement
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tobacco
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a field laborer was most likely
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an indentured servant
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helped the Spanish defeat the Aztecs
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*superior weapons
*help from native allies *desease spread by the Spanish |
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England's first unsuccessful colony in North America
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Roanoke
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King James II united the area from S. Maine to New Jersey under what name
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Dominion of New England
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assembled the largest and best equipped army during the French and Indian War
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William Pitt
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England's policy of "salutary neglect"
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allowed the colonies to increase their control of day to day activities
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colonists were first taxed directly with the
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stamp act
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this convinced the French to support the colonies against the British
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the Battle of Saratoga
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the last battle of the French and Indian War
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the Battle of Quebec
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the first shots in the Revolutionary War were heard in
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Lexington
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during the Revolutionary War where did General Cornwallis surrendered to the American and French forces
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Yorktown
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where were the treaties that ended the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War signed
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Paris
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group of Puritans that settled the colony of Pennsylvania were known as
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the Quakers
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what religion was brought to the New World by the Spanish
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Catholic
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worked for 4-7 yrs to pay passage to America
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indentured servant
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explored Puerto Rico and Florida
looking for the "Fountain of Youth" |
Ponce de Leon
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this group wanted to purify the Church of England getting rid of any Catholic traces
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Puritans
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England fought what nation in a series of 4 wars
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France
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in what city was there both a "massacre" and "tea party"
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Boston
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