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| Who were Ferdinand and Isabella? |
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| The financiers and beneficiaries of Columbus's voyages to the New World |
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| Who were Cortes and Pizarro? |
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| Spanish conquerors of great Indian civilations |
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| inland sea left by melted glaciers whose remnant is the Great Salt Lake |
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| Who were Dias and De Gama? |
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| Portugese navigators who sailed around the African coast |
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| Who was Christopher Colombus? |
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| An Italian-born explorer who thought he landed off of the coast of Asia instead of America. He landed in 1492. |
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| A female indian slave who served as an interpreter to Cortes |
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| Who were Eric the Red and Leif Erikson? |
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| The leaders of the Norse Vikings who discovered America in 1000 A.D. |
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| The legendary founder of the Iroquais Confederacy, an alliance of five different tribes in New York that was the first example of a political orginazation in the new world |
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| The capital of the Aztec Empire |
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| Founded in 1565, it is the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in the U.S. territory |
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| An italian born navigator who was sent by the English to explore the coast of the New World in 1498 |
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| An Indian leader who ruled the tribes in the James River area of Virginia |
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| Who were Raleigh and Gilbert? |
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| Elizabethan courtiers who failed in their attempts to found New World colonies |
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| the failed "lost colony" founded by Sir Walter Raleigh |
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| Who were Smith and Rolfe? |
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| The leaders of Jamestown that saved Jamestown residents from the "starving time" |
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| Virginia was a colony that in 1619 established... |
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| Maryland was a colony that was known as a... |
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| safe haven for Roman-Catholics |
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| large military governor of virginia who employed "Irish tactics" against the Indians there |
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| Jamaica and Barbados were British West Indian sugar colonies where... |
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| large-scale plantations and slavery took root |
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| A Catholic aristocrat who sought to build a sanctuary for his fellow "believers" |
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| South Carolina was a colony that... |
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| turned to disease-resistant african slaves for labor in it's extensive rice plantations |
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| North Carolina was a colony that was called... |
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| "a veil of humility between two mountains of conceit" |
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| Georgia was founded as a refuge for... |
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| debtors by philanthropists |
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| Who was James Oglethorpe? |
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| A Philantropic soldier-statesmen that founded the Georgia colony |
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| The unmarried ruler of England that led them to glory |
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| A riverbank site where Virginia Company settlers established the first permanent English colony |
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| A German Monk who began the Protestant Reformation |
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| A reformer whose religious ideas inspired English Puritans, Scotch Presbyterians, French Huguenots, and Dutch reformed |
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| The Wampaonoag chieftan who befriended English colonists |
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| A small colony that eventually merged into Massachusetts Bay |
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| What was the Massachusetts Bay colony? |
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| The colony whose government sought to enforces God's law on believers and unbelievers alike |
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| The Promoter of Massachusetts Bay as a "city on a hill" |
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| What was the Great Puritan Migration? |
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| A mass flight by religious dissidents from the Archbishop Laud and Charles I |
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| What was the general court? |
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| the representative assembly of Massachusetts Bay |
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| Who were the Puritans (in terms of Massachusetts Bay?) |
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| The dominant religious group in Massachusetts Bay |
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| A religious group persecuted in Massachusetts and New York (for not having a true loyalty to a certain religion or people and exercising tolerance) but NOT in Pennsylvania |
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| A religious dissenter who was convicted of heresy of antinomianism |
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| A radical founder of the most tolerant New England colony, Rhode Island |
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| Who was Peter Stuyvesant? |
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| The conqueror of New Sweden who later lost New Netherland to the English |
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| The Indian leader of an unsuccessful war against New England |
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| The founder of the most tolerant AND DEMOCRATIC colony, Pennsylvania |
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| What was the Mayflower Compact, and what is it's significance? |
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| It was a shipboard agreement by the Pilgrim Fathers to establish a body politic and submit to majority rules. IT;s significance is that it is the first example of a social contract and is the first step toward government in the New World |
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| The Virginia-Maryland bay area, site of the earliest colonial settlements |
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| Who were indentured servants? |
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| The primary laborers in early southern colonies until the 1680's |
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| An agitator that led poor farmer indentured servants and frontiersmen on a rampage against Indians and colonial government |
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| Who was governor Berkeley? |
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| A colonial Virginian official who crushed rebels and wreaked cruel revenge |
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| What was the Royal Africa Company? |
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| An organization whose loss of the slave trade monopoly in 1698 led to free-enterprise and expansion of the business |
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| What was the Middle Passage? |
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| The experience/rooute taken where human beings were branded and chained, and which only 80% of those who made this trip survived |
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| A religious rite in West Africa, retained by African-Americans, in which participants responded to the shouts of a preacher |
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| What was Leisler's Rebellion? |
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| A small New York revolt of 1689-1691 that reflected class antagonism between landlords and merchants |
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| Who were the Lees, Fitzhughs, and Washingtons? |
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| Some of the first First-Families of Virginia who dominated politics in highly populated colonies, who completely controlled the House of Burgesses in Virginia |
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| What was the "New England conscious"? |
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| The legacy of Puritan religion that inspired idealism and reform among later generations of Americans |
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| What is William and Mary? |
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| The oldest college in America, originally based on the Puritan commitment to an educated ministry |
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| The oldest college in the South, founded in 1793 |
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| What was the New York City slave revolt of 1712? |
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| A major middle-colonies rebellion that caused thirty-three deaths |
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| What did the Halfway Covenant do? |
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| It helped to erase the earlier Puritan distinction between the converted "elect" and other members of society |
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| What were the Salem Witch Trials? |
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| A Phenomena started by adolescent girls' accusations that ended with the deaths of twenty people |
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| Bacon's revolution is important for two major reasons... |
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1)It led to African slave trade
2) It led to rights and protection for lower the class |
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| Nathaniel Bacon was a worker of the governor of ______, and then was thrown out of government for disagreeing with the treatment of _______. He then rose to lead the _____________ and ____________ to fight the government |
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Virginia,
Indians,
rose to lead indentured servants and the lower class |
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| leading city of the colonies, and home of Benjamin Franklin |
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| African-Americans were the largest... |
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| non-english group in the colonies |
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| Scots-Irish were a group that... |
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| the settled the frontier, made whiskey, and hated the British and other governmental authorites |
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| The Paxton Boys and regulators were... |
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| Scot-Irish frontiersman who protested against colonial elites of Pennsylvania and North Carolinas |
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| An eloquent lawyer-orator who argued in defense of colonial rights |
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| What was the Molasses Act? |
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| An attempt made by British authorities to squelch colonial trade with the French West Indies |
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| What was the Anglican Church? |
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| It was what established religion in the southern colonies and New York; was weakened by lackadasiel clergy and ties that were too close to the English crown |
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| Who was Jonathon Edwards? |
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| A brilliant New England theologian who instigated the Great Awakening |
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| Who was George Whitefield? |
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| An Itinerant British evangelist who spread the Great Awakening throughout the colonies |
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| Who was Phillis Wheatley? |
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| A former slave who became a famous poet at an early age |
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| Who was Benjamin Franklin? |
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| An author, scientist, printer, and the "first civilized american" |
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| Who was John Peter Zenger? |
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| A colonial printer whose case helped begin freedom of the press |
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| The dominant religious group in colonial Pennsylvania, criticized by others for their opinions on Indians |
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| A non-established religious group that benefited from the Great Awakening |
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| Who was John Singleton Copley? |
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| A famous colonial painter who studied and worked in Britain |
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