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Jamestown Significance
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1st succesful colony
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What was the driving force behind settlers coming to the New World?
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Greed
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What was the main incentive that the Virginia Company offered?
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Free Land
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What was the original intent for settlers coming to the New World?
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Convert People and spread religion
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Who was the leader of the first movement?
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John Smith
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What was John Smith's feelings toward the natives?
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He viewed them as barbarians
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What major event happened to John Smith?
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He was saved by Pocahontas
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What is John Rolfe known for?
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Marrying Pocahontas
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Who was Opechancanough?
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Powhatan leader
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What is Opechancanough known for?
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Pursuing all out attacks on English enemies.
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Who were indentured servants?
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People that would give up basic freedoms and get a major reward after they work for a certain amount of time
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What were the penalties of being an indentured servant?
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Giving up all freedoms and preforming tasks so hard that they often died before they got their reward
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Who was Lord Baltimore?
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He Created Maryland
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What was the original purpose of Maryland?
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A place for wealthy Catholics to build a community
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What was Lord Baltimore's name?
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George Calvert
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What happened to the original idea of Maryland?
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They weren't getting enough people and they invited everyone, protestants and people in the lower class came in and had a say in how Maryland was run
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What was Bacon's Rebellion?
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Protested Gov. Berkley giving away land to the Natives. They attaked the natives and the natives attacked back.
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What happened to Bacon after the Rebellion?
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He took hold of Jamestown and threw out Berkley
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What were 3 ways that Bacon's Rebellion fielded a need for slave trade?
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less endentured slaves
No lower class whites banded together brought on need for slaves |
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What were Black Codes?
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Laws that restricted general rights of Blacks
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What were 4 things Blacks weren't allowed to do due to the Black Codes
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to legally marry
testify congregate in public be parents |
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What were 2 effects of the Black Codes?
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caused rebellion
even more racism for black people |
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Why did the Puritans come to the New World? Were did they settle?
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Came to escape the church
Settled in Massachusetts |
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What was so central about the Puritans?
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Their strong religious beliefs
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What was unique about the Puritans?
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Their leaders were well educated and their communities were well organized
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What did King James Call the Puritans?
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Sepratists
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What did King James vow to do?
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"harry them out of the land"
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Did King Charles help the Puritans?
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No he claimed they were the most dangerous enemies of the state
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Who was Roger Williams? What 2 things did he do that was so controversial?
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He was a preacher who denounced mandatory worship, and was for the separation of church and state
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Why was Roger Williams so important?
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He shook up the church and had people thinking differently about the Puritan way
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Why was Anne Hutchinson so important?
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He shook up the church and had people thinking differently about the Puritan way
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What did Anne Hutchinson preach?
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salvation for all
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What was Ironic about Anne Hutchinson's fate?
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She was excommunicated
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What was so important about William Bradford?
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He invented Thanksgiving
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Why was John Winthrop important (2).
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Gov. of Massachusetts
Had problems with Roger Williams |
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What started the Pequot war?
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The Puritans did when they were trying to expand
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What was so different about the Pequot Indians?
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Their tribe was a strong tribe
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What happened to the Pequot Indians?
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After a very bloody war they were defeated and the Puritans got control of the Connecticut River Valley
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Who was King Phillip
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Metacomet
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What was the start of King Philip's war?
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His tribe was humiliated because they were forced to surrender stock piles of ammunition, he then built a resistance force, and the Puritans executed tribes men
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How massive was King Phillip's war? Why was it so significant?
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By the time the war was over the Connecticut River Valley as destroyed. It was significant because it was one of the major forms of retaliation that was successful in the Natives favor
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What ended King Phillip's war (3)?
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Food shortages, diesease, and lack of help from other tribes
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What was so evil about the Dutch colonies (2)?
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traded and allies with natives
raided tobacco ships |
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Why were the Dutch so successful?
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The had the best shipbuilders, mariners and buisnessmen
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Why is the Dutch significant?
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David and Goliath story, they took down the status quo
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What was Carolina's staple crop? What did this due for the population?
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The staple crop in the Carolinas was rice, this required incredibly hard slave labor.
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Why was it easy for people in the Carolina society to go along with the slave trade?
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They owned slave where they previously came from
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What were some of the Quaker beliefs (3)?
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pacifists
seperation of Church and State All people created equal |
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Who was William Penn?
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The leader of the Quaker movement
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What was so unique about Pennsylvania?
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ethnically diverse, and religiously diverse
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What was the Mercantilist Theory
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Export more than you import
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What Navigation Law was passed?
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English colonies could only export to England or other English Colonies
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What was the Glorious Revolution? And why was it so important?
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Dethroning of an Anglican king
Major "win" for Protestanism |
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How did the Glorious Revolution spread to the colonies (2) ?
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Maryland, Catholic Colony, became Protestant
Led to the Collapse of the Dominion of New England |
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Who controlled the Dominion of England? And what was it?
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Sir Edmond Andros
Governmental English administration that ruled over the colonies for a short time |
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What unruly things did Sir Edmond Andros do to the Colonists (4)?
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Mocked Puritans
Disposed of all other governments imposed taxes ended trial by jury |
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What lasting effect did Andros have on the Puritans?
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His rule led to high paranoia and eventually witchcraft trials.
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What was going on during the Witch Trials?
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Little girls inn the community targeted people in the community for witchcraft
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Why was the job of a midwife so unique?
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One of the only service jobs women could preform
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Why were there no male midwives?
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Men believed that it was in the women's hands what happened to their babies
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Who was the most famous Midwife?
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Mrs. Philips
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What was life in the back country like (4)?
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Crude
People panted between trees Not a lot of communities Very poor |
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How different were the roles of women in the back country to those in Chesapeake?
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Women had the same jobs as men
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What were the more direct ways of slave rebellion (3)?
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arson
crop distruction assults on masters |
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List 3 big rebellion instances
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Near Charleston
The Armistad suspicion |
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What was King William/Queen Anne's War?
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2 successful french wars against the British that gave France land in Canada.
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How did the European Enlightment spread to the Colonies?
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The ideas were being spread throughout Europe and it was only a matter of time that someone educated read about them in Colonies
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How did the Enlightment lead to the great Awakening?
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People weren't afraid of New Ideas and weren't afraid to argue
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What were the 2 major effects of the Awakening?
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Community wasn't based off of 1 religion
Religion became less important in social life |
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Due to the Awakening what was there no more of?
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There was no more of "the church"
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What was the Awakening?
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Charismatic preachers interpreting the bible differently and people following them
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What was the Boston Impressment Riot of 1747?
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People in Boston banded together to fight off the English who was coming and taking Bostonians and using them as crew members
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Why was the Impressment Riot so important?
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One of the first direct acts of resistance
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What did the Whig Ideology want?
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Little gov. involvement in everyday life
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What was the Zenger Case and who did it help?
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Zenger got charged for seditious libel for uncovering the truth about a politician
It helped the Whig party and their ideas of freedom of the press |
