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43 Cards in this Set
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What governing body did the monarch of England share power with |
Parliament |
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What religion movement in England wanted a simpler, more basic type of worship |
Puritans |
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How did the Puritans worship? |
In plain. Self governing congregation. Without formal ceremonies |
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What order was given to the Virginia company by James 1 that was quickly abandoned? |
To bring the Christian religion to the Indians. This was abandoned in favor of making money |
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What item cultivated by John Rolfe saved Virginia |
Tobacco |
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According to John Winthrop, how would a "True wife" find contentment |
In submission to husband's authority |
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How was the British colonizers different from other European colonizers? |
Had far more women |
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What was the Act of Union in 1707? |
England and Scotland were combined to form Great Britain |
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Which colonies were the most ethnically diverse |
Middle colonies |
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What colonies made up the middle colonies? |
New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland |
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What was the largest non English ethic group in the colonies |
Scot-Irish and Germans |
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Which colonies utilize slavery the most? |
Virginia and Maryland |
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Which regions used slaves the most? |
The South |
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Who was the father of New France |
Soilder-explorer Samuel de Camplin |
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What did Samual de Champlin found |
Port Royal in Acadia |
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How were the French colonies differ from the other European colonies? |
Never invested the people or resources in North America like the English. Less population. Befriended Natives, learn their language, and married native women |
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How did the English differ from the other European colonies in their treatment of native |
Other European colonies made allies |
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Regulating colonial economies to benefit the mother country |
Mercantilism |
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How did the British use Merchantlism |
Taxed, regulated, or subsidized key industries |
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Restrictions placed by Parliament to control colonial trade and bolster the merchant system |
Navigation Acts |
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What did the Navigation acts state? |
All goods be carried only in English owned ships built in England |
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A monarchy where the king or queen power is limited by a constitution |
Constitutional monarchy |
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What was a strength of the British during the revolution? |
Recruiting loyalist, African Americans, and Natives |
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What were some of the weakness of the British during the revolution |
Not enlisting as many as they hoped. Difficulties supplying big army. Expense of war. America was aided by the French. Americans knew the land |
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Part time non professional solider, mostly poor farmers or recent immigrant who had been indentured servants |
Citizen soilders |
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How would you describe the average Patriot Soilder? |
Poorly trained citizen soilders |
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What was the significance of the Battle of Saratoga? |
The American victory help convince the French to enlist on the side of the Patriots |
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Why was the Battle of Kinds Mountain significant |
Proved that the British and their soilders could be defeated in the south |
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What did Abigail Adam's wrote to her husband to ask for |
Equality for women |
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"I desire you would remember the ladies.... Do not put such unlimited powers into the hands of the husband " |
Abigail Adams |
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Where did Washington army spend a miserable winter in 1777 to 1778 |
Valley Forge |
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Created by the Separatists on board the Mayflower. It is a formal agreement by the congregation to abide by the laws |
Mayflower Compact |
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What group led by John Winthrop were to beca Christian community? |
Mass. Bay Puritans |
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Which colony came to be due to recruitment of planters in Barbados? |
Southern Carolina |
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Why did Virginia prefer West African slaves? |
Cultivation of Yams were similar to the cultivation of tobacco |
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Believed that Christians became too obsessed with making money and the Enlightenment was eroding the importance of religious life |
Johnathan Edwards |
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What happened as a result of the French and Indian war to French Territories in the US |
Treaty of Paris: British gained most of North America and the Spanish gained the Lousiana territories |
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Why did the colonists oppose the Sugar Act |
More taxes without their consent |
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Required the colonies to feed and house British troops |
Quartering Acts |
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Created by the continental Congress, this urged King George to negotiate with his angry colonies |
Olive Branch petition |
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Who settled Rhode Island |
Roger Williams and the Separatists |
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What colony did James Oglethorpe gound |
Georgia |
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Where did the proprietors of SC come from? |
Large Grant's to prominent English men |