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31 Cards in this Set
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Who were the first English settlers settlers in the new colonies? How did they arrive? Where did they land? |
Plymouth, pilgrims, on the Mayflower |
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What was the first successful settlement why did they name it that? |
Jamestown and it was named after King James |
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What was the name of the document the pilgrims signed set up their government? |
The Mayflower Compact |
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What was the name of the settlement that disappeared? |
Roanoke |
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What are the regions of the 13 colonies? |
New England, middle, and southern |
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What states are included in the New England regions? |
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland, Connecticut |
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What states are included in the middle region? |
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware |
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What are the what states are included in the southern region? |
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia |
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What is another name for the French and Indian War? |
Seven Years War |
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How did the North make their money? |
Shipbuilding, Lumber, imports and exports, fishing, wailing |
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How did they make their money in the south |
Agriculture, plantations, slaves, tobacco |
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What was the major reason the colonies wanted to gain their independence? |
They disagreed highly with the taxes, laws, and soldiers unfair taxation |
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What was the Tea Act? |
Text it to you in for some Monopoly the British East India Company |
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What was the Stamp Act? |
Text all printed Goods first direct tax on the colonists |
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What was the coercive Act |
Asked you to punish the colonist, close the ports, shut down the town meetings, disband state legislators |
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What was the quartering at? |
The colonists were forced to house and feed soldiers without their consent |
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What was an advantage the colonists at the beginning of the Revolutionary War |
They had a home feel insulted Vantage and noodle and, they had something worth fighting for |
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What is the order that these occurred coercive stamp sugar Township next |
Sugar, stamp, Townshend, cursive |
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What was the meeting of colonial leaders called when they wrote a letter to the king |
Continental Congress |
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What literary contribution did Thomas Paine make |
Common sense |
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Who proposed Independence to the Continental Congress |
Richard Henry Lee |
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What year was the Declaration of Independence signed |
July 4th, 1776 |
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what were the rights included in the Declaration of Independence that could not be taken away |
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness |
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What was the turning point of the war |
Battle of Saratoga |
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What did the Continental Army received from France |
Ship supplies and soldiers |
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Order the following revolutionary battles Ticonderoga, bunker Bunker Hill, Lexington and Concord, Trenton and Princeton Congress Saratoga, Yorktown |
Lexington and Concord, Ticonderoga, Bunker Hill, Trenton and Princeton, Saratoga, Yorktown |
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Where did peace negotiations take place at the end of the Revolutionary War |
In Paris |
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What did the founders create start setting up a new government |
Articles of Confederation |
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What is one word that would describe the Articles of Confederation |
Week |
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What was a strength of the Articles of Confederation |
Had the power to manage Native Native Indian Affairs |
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What was the weakness of the Articles of Confederation |
No army or military |
