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Spanish attitudes towards de las Casas’ report? |
Spanish officials thought Native Americans were inferior people who should labor on plantations, in mines, and other economic endeavors in order to enrich Spain. |
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an important consequence of the Spanish attitude towards Native Americans? |
As Native populations succumbed to disease and warfare resulting from European colonization, imperial powers turned towards African slaves in order to maintain productivity in colonial economic enterprises. |
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Social hierarchy of the Spanish hierarchy |
Settlers from Spain had the highest status, followed by Spanish subjects born in the colonies, then persons of bi-racial heritage, followed by indigenous peoples, and finally Africans were at the bottom. |
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Native Americans relationship with European goods |
Metal tools and weapons were highly sought-after trade goods which Native Americans could not produce themselves. The Native Americans entered into a cycle of dependence by bartering with European traders. |
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Which statement best describes the relationship between Native Americans and European settlers? |
The Native Americans and European settlers frequently misunderstood each other which often led to violence. At the same time, extensive contact occurred between both groups which led to changes in both cultures. |
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describe the consequences of European colonization |
Imperial powers used the silver from the Potosi mines (pictured above) to fund their attempts to expand their power in continental Europe. Economic innovations like joint stock companies emerged and capitalism began to replace feudalism. |
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What enabled the Europeans to conquer the Native American peoples? |
Europeans had metal armor, weapons, and horses but Native Americans had none of these. In addition, small pox, measles, and other diseases killed millions of natives who lacked immunity. |
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What effect, if any, did Native American culture have on Europeans? |
Europeans learned to smoke tobacco, drink chocolate, and consumed other foodstuffs which were found only in the New World. |
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Which of the following statements correctly describes Benzoni’s account? |
The passage is rife with bias but it does contain some truth when it describes the various animals the indigenous people worship. Many Native American people also blended animism and Catholicism into a new belief. |
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describethe encounter between the conquistador Hernán Cortés and the Aztec leader Moctezuma |
Malinche, who appears on the right side of the tapestry, was an example of the role women often played as go-betweens in colonial encounters. |
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Why did native Americans lack immunity to European diseases |
Close proximity to animals and the presence of large cities facilitated the spread of numerous epidemics, such as the Black Death, in Europe over centuries. These factors were not present in the New World and made the Native Americans especially vulnerable to deadly diseases including smallpo |
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Why did Winthrop say the Puritans must build a city upon a hill? |
In order to serve as a religious inspiration to others. |
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Why did the Puritans settle in towns? |
Town meetings were important to the political and religious life of the Puritan settlers. |
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How much religious diversity existed in Britain’s North American colonies? |
The colonies attracted people from many different beliefs, including Puritans, Catholics, Presbyterians, Anglicans, and others |
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Smith justification of colonization |
Exploration of resources |
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What was an important consequence of the decision to colonize Virginia on counties instead of towns? |
Political and cultural institutions developed more slowly because the population was spread out over a larger area |
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Which of the following was NOT a motivation that drove colonists to settle in the New World? |
Colonists sought a better life for themselves and, in the case of the Puritans, sometimes sought religious freedom. However, colonists did not seek political freedom — revolutionary sentiments only emerged later. |
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What was the most common form of resistance among slaves in the New World? |
Slaves ran away and intentionally worked slowly. |
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What was slave culture like in the British colonies? |
Slaves retained some of their traditional language, religion, and food dishes but also adopted some elements of British trans-Atlantic culture including language and Christianity. |
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Describe the status of slaves in southern British colonies |
Slavery became closely associated with race and southern colonists thought this was proof blacks were inferior. Southern colonists tried to prohibit interracial relationships because they believed blacks deserved to be perpetually enslaved. |
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Why was slavery more prevalent in the south |
Southern colonies relied on more labor intensive cash crops |
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What consequences did the policy of mercantilism have for British colonies in North America? |
The colonies provided raw materials but manufactured very few goods. |
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describe the British crown’s attitude towards the colonies in North America prior to mid-18th century? |
Salutary neglect — the king and his cabinet rarely enforced the rules that governed the colonies which benefitted as a result. |
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describe the economic activity in the Atlantic world during the colonial period? |
A lively trade emerged between the North American colonies, Britain, and Africa |
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What was the Great Awakening |
The Great Awakening was a trans-Atlantic event which helped increase religious pluralism in the colonies. |
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describe the political connections between the North American colonies and the British crown before the mid-18th century? |
Colonists built political institutions based on British models but had a large degree of autonomy. |
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What was an important feature of the Enlightenment? |
The Enlightenment highlighted the values Britain shared with her North American colonies. |
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Are the events depicted in the painting representative of the general pattern of interactions between British colonists and indigenous peoples? |
Native Americans negotiated with the colonies but also used military force to resist encroachment |
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describe the military strength of Native American tribes in the 17th century? |
The Native Americans sometimes achieved victories against the colonists but were steadily pushed back by European forces. |
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What, if any, obstacles led to political misunderstandings between the indigenous peoples of North America and European colonists? |
Europeans were initially confused by the decentralized nature of power within indigenous tribes. |
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What did the Portuguese invent around 1450 to reach sub Saharan African? |
The caravel |
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What did the Portuguese invent around 1450 to reach sub Saharan African? |
The caravel |
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What divides the Americas between the Spanish and the Portuguese? |
Treaty of Tordesillas |
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What did the Portuguese invent around 1450 to reach sub Saharan African? |
The caravel |
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What divides the Americas between the Spanish and the Portuguese? |
Treaty of Tordesillas |
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What did native Americans do that shows they adapted to the environment they lived in |
The creation of large scale irrigation works to promote the growing of maize |
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What did the Portuguese invent around 1450 to reach sub Saharan African? |
The caravel |
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What divides the Americas between the Spanish and the Portuguese? |
Treaty of Tordesillas |
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What did native Americans do that shows they adapted to the environment they lived in |
The creation of large scale irrigation works to promote the growing of maize |
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Which of the following regions was home to bands of nomadic Native Americans who relied on their game for the vast majority of their needs? |
The Great Plains |
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What did the Portuguese invent around 1450 to reach sub Saharan African? |
The caravel |
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What divides the Americas between the Spanish and the Portuguese? |
Treaty of Tordesillas |
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What did native Americans do that shows they adapted to the environment they lived in |
The creation of large scale irrigation works to promote the growing of maize |
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Which of the following regions was home to bands of nomadic Native Americans who relied on their game for the vast majority of their needs? |
The Great Plains |
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Maryland was made a refuge for which group to escape the wrath of the Protestant English government? |
Catholics |
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What did the Portuguese invent around 1450 to reach sub Saharan African? |
The caravel |
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What divides the Americas between the Spanish and the Portuguese? |
Treaty of Tordesillas |
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What did native Americans do that shows they adapted to the environment they lived in |
The creation of large scale irrigation works to promote the growing of maize |
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Which of the following regions was home to bands of nomadic Native Americans who relied on their game for the vast majority of their needs? |
The Great Plains |
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Maryland was made a refuge for which group to escape the wrath of the Protestant English government? |
Catholics |
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Which monarch broke with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530s |
King Henry 9th |
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What did the Portuguese invent around 1450 to reach sub Saharan African? |
The caravel |
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What divides the Americas between the Spanish and the Portuguese? |
Treaty of Tordesillas |
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What did native Americans do that shows they adapted to the environment they lived in |
The creation of large scale irrigation works to promote the growing of maize |
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Which of the following regions was home to bands of nomadic Native Americans who relied on their game for the vast majority of their needs? |
The Great Plains |
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Maryland was made a refuge for which group to escape the wrath of the Protestant English government? |
Catholics |
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Which monarch broke with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530s |
King Henry 9th |
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Name of the first three successful European colonies, the country’s name and year established |
1607, England, Jamestown 1608, France, Quebec 1610, Spain, Santa Fe |
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What did the Portuguese invent around 1450 to reach sub Saharan African? |
The caravel |
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What divides the Americas between the Spanish and the Portuguese? |
Treaty of Tordesillas |
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What did native Americans do that shows they adapted to the environment they lived in |
The creation of large scale irrigation works to promote the growing of maize |
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Which of the following regions was home to bands of nomadic Native Americans who relied on their game for the vast majority of their needs? |
The Great Plains |
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Maryland was made a refuge for which group to escape the wrath of the Protestant English government? |
Catholics |
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Which monarch broke with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530s |
King Henry 9th |
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Name of the first three successful European colonies, the country’s name and year established |
1607, England, Jamestown 1608, France, Quebec 1610, Spain, Santa Fe |
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Major cash crop for the West Indian Islands? |
Sugar |
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What did the Portuguese invent around 1450 to reach sub Saharan African? |
The caravel |
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What divides the Americas between the Spanish and the Portuguese? |
Treaty of Tordesillas |
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What did native Americans do that shows they adapted to the environment they lived in |
The creation of large scale irrigation works to promote the growing of maize |
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Which of the following regions was home to bands of nomadic Native Americans who relied on their game for the vast majority of their needs? |
The Great Plains |
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Maryland was made a refuge for which group to escape the wrath of the Protestant English government? |
Catholics |
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Which monarch broke with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530s |
King Henry 9th |
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Name of the first three successful European colonies, the country’s name and year established |
1607, England, Jamestown 1608, France, Quebec 1610, Spain, Santa Fe |
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Major cash crop for the West Indian Islands? |
Sugar |
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Major cash crop that happened Virginia thrive |
Tobacco |
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Who is Hernan Cortes? |
The conquistar responsible for the decline of the Aztec empire |
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Who is Hernan Cortes? |
The conquistar responsible for the decline of the Aztec empire |
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Who is Sir Walter Raleigh |
This person would help to found the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke in modern North Carolina. |
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Who is Hernan Cortes? |
The conquistar responsible for the decline of the Aztec empire |
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Who is Sir Walter Raleigh |
This person would help to found the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke in modern North Carolina. |
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Who is George Whitefield? |
This person gave America a different kind of enthusiastic type of preaching, which had an emphasis on direct, emotive spirituality and seriously undermined the older clergy. |
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Who is Hernan Cortes? |
The conquistar responsible for the decline of the Aztec empire |
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Who is Sir Walter Raleigh |
This person would help to found the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke in modern North Carolina. |
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Who is George Whitefield? |
This person gave America a different kind of enthusiastic type of preaching, which had an emphasis on direct, emotive spirituality and seriously undermined the older clergy. |
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Who is Sir Francis Drake? |
In 1580, this “sir” circumnavigated the globe, plundering and returning with his ship loaded with Spanish booty. He had a profit of about 4,600%. |
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Who is Hernan Cortes? |
The conquistar responsible for the decline of the Aztec empire |
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Who is Sir Walter Raleigh |
This person would help to found the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke in modern North Carolina. |
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Who is George Whitefield? |
This person gave America a different kind of enthusiastic type of preaching, which had an emphasis on direct, emotive spirituality and seriously undermined the older clergy. |
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Who is Sir Francis Drake? |
In 1580, this “sir” circumnavigated the globe, plundering and returning with his ship loaded with Spanish booty. He had a profit of about 4,600%. |
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Who is Montezuma? |
This person was “king” of the Aztec empire around when Cortes arrived. |
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Who is Hernan Cortes? |
The conquistar responsible for the decline of the Aztec empire |
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Who is Sir Walter Raleigh |
This person would help to found the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke in modern North Carolina. |
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Who is George Whitefield? |
This person gave America a different kind of enthusiastic type of preaching, which had an emphasis on direct, emotive spirituality and seriously undermined the older clergy. |
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Who is Sir Francis Drake? |
In 1580, this “sir” circumnavigated the globe, plundering and returning with his ship loaded with Spanish booty. He had a profit of about 4,600%. |
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Who is Montezuma? |
This person was “king” of the Aztec empire around when Cortes arrived. |
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Who are the pilgrims? |
This group of Separatists in Holland came to America in search for religious freedom. The group settled outside the domain of the Virginia Company and, without legal permission, settled in Plymouth Bay in 1620 |
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Who is Hernan Cortes? |
The conquistar responsible for the decline of the Aztec empire |
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Who is Sir Walter Raleigh |
This person would help to found the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke in modern North Carolina. |
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Who is George Whitefield? |
This person gave America a different kind of enthusiastic type of preaching, which had an emphasis on direct, emotive spirituality and seriously undermined the older clergy. |
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Who is Sir Francis Drake? |
In 1580, this “sir” circumnavigated the globe, plundering and returning with his ship loaded with Spanish booty. He had a profit of about 4,600%. |
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Who is Montezuma? |
This person was “king” of the Aztec empire around when Cortes arrived. |
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Who are the pilgrims? |
This group of Separatists in Holland came to America in search for religious freedom. The group settled outside the domain of the Virginia Company and, without legal permission, settled in Plymouth Bay in 1620 |
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Who are the Puritans? |
In 1629, this energetic group of non-Separatist, secured a royal charter to |
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Who is Hernan Cortes? |
The conquistar responsible for the decline of the Aztec empire |
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Who is Sir Walter Raleigh |
This person would help to found the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke in modern North Carolina. |
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Who is George Whitefield? |
This person gave America a different kind of enthusiastic type of preaching, which had an emphasis on direct, emotive spirituality and seriously undermined the older clergy. |
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Who is Sir Francis Drake? |
In 1580, this “sir” circumnavigated the globe, plundering and returning with his ship loaded with Spanish booty. He had a profit of about 4,600%. |
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Who is Montezuma? |
This person was “king” of the Aztec empire around when Cortes arrived. |
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Who are the pilgrims? |
This group of Separatists in Holland came to America in search for religious freedom. The group settled outside the domain of the Virginia Company and, without legal permission, settled in Plymouth Bay in 1620 |
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Who are the Puritans? |
In 1629, this energetic group of non-Separatist, secured a royal charter to |
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Who is Hernan Cortes? |
The conquistar responsible for the decline of the Aztec empire |
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Who is Sir Walter Raleigh |
This person would help to found the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke in modern North Carolina. |
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Who is George Whitefield? |
This person gave America a different kind of enthusiastic type of preaching, which had an emphasis on direct, emotive spirituality and seriously undermined the older clergy. |
|
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Who is Sir Francis Drake? |
In 1580, this “sir” circumnavigated the globe, plundering and returning with his ship loaded with Spanish booty. He had a profit of about 4,600%. |
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Who is Montezuma? |
This person was “king” of the Aztec empire around when Cortes arrived. |
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Who are the pilgrims? |
This group of Separatists in Holland came to America in search for religious freedom. The group settled outside the domain of the Virginia Company and, without legal permission, settled in Plymouth Bay in 1620 |
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Who are the Puritans? |
In 1629, this energetic group of non-Separatist, secured a royal charter to |
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Who is Hernan Cortes? |
The conquistar responsible for the decline of the Aztec empire |
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Who is Sir Walter Raleigh |
This person would help to found the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke in modern North Carolina. |
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Who is George Whitefield? |
This person gave America a different kind of enthusiastic type of preaching, which had an emphasis on direct, emotive spirituality and seriously undermined the older clergy. |
|
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Who is Sir Francis Drake? |
In 1580, this “sir” circumnavigated the globe, plundering and returning with his ship loaded with Spanish booty. He had a profit of about 4,600%. |
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Who is Montezuma? |
This person was “king” of the Aztec empire around when Cortes arrived. |
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Who are the pilgrims? |
This group of Separatists in Holland came to America in search for religious freedom. The group settled outside the domain of the Virginia Company and, without legal permission, settled in Plymouth Bay in 1620 |
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Who are the Puritans? |
In 1629, this energetic group of non-Separatist, secured a royal charter to |
