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| A new type of ship with a smooth, rounded hull, a large center rudder, and triangular sails |
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| How did the first people come to America? |
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| They came across a land bridge that connected Asia to North America |
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| What is the definition of nationalism? |
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| A Native American group that lived in upstate New York |
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| The Iroquois lived in what houses and what were they made of? |
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| They lived in long houses that were made out of wood. |
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| What alliance did they form? |
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| The Iroquois formed the Iroquois Confederacy league |
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| What was the Iroquois Confederacy League? |
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| A government that tried to stop fighting and settle disputes among tribes |
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| What is different about the Iroquois Confederacy League and our Government back then? |
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| The women had a say in government |
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| Who was Christopher Columbus? |
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| A famous sailor from Genoa, Italy. |
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| Who paid for Columbus's expedition to the Americas? |
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| The king and Queen of Spain. |
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| What were Columbus's three ships? |
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| The Nina, The Pinta, and The Santa Maria. |
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| What was the Columbian Exchange? |
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| When European explorers and settlers took plants and animals with them to the Americas. They also brought back new plants and animals to Europe, Asia, and Africa. |
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| What/who were conquistadors? |
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| Soldiers who led military expeditions in the Americas. |
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| A conquistador who left Cuba to sail to present day Mexico in 1519. |
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| Who ruled the Aztec Empire in the Early 1500's? |
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| King Moctezuma II (The second) |
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| Who was Francisco Pizarro? |
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| A conquistador who attacked and conquered The Inca in the Andes of South America |
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| What was the Middle Passage? |
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| The voyage across the Atlantic Ocean that enslaved Africans were forced to endure. |
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| What was the Mayflower Compact? |
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| A "treaty" signed by the Pilgrims before landing at Plymouth, Massachusetts |
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| What were the three reasons for the Pilgrims to come to America |
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-Religious Freedom
-To own land
-To Find Gold |
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| Who were Indentured Servants? |
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| Servants who signed a contract agreeing to work for four to seven years for those who had paid for their journey to America |
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| A Protestant group who wanted to purify, or reform the Anglican Church |
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| One separatist group that left England in the early 1600s to escape persecution. |
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| Southern Economy depended on.... |
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| The New England Economy was based on.... |
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| Their soil being very rocky and the weather conditions being very cold and harsh, their economy was based on trade |
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| Middle Colonies Economy was based on... |
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| "Staple Crops" Crops that were always needed Crops that included Barley, wheat, and Oats. Some even raised Livestock |
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| A tax placed on tea which was sold directly to the Colonists |
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| What was the Boston Tea Party? |
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| When Colonists dressed up as Native Americans and dumped tea off a ship and into the Boston Harbor |
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| What were the Intolerable acts? |
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| Punishments placed the British Parliament when they found about the Boston Tea Party |
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