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| What was the most dispersed native language through out America? |
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| Who was in a 'race to the indes' ? |
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| Christoopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama |
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| What was the diving line called between the Spanish and Portuguese empires ? |
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| The first European town in the new world |
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| Santo Domingo, Hispaniola |
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| 'I came here to get gold, and not to till the soil like a peasent' |
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| Cortes - Arriving in Hispaniola |
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| Italian explorer working in France |
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| Mexican silver mining region |
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| How did the spanish consolidate religion throught out the Aztec empire ? |
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| Built churches on their religios sites |
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| Origion of the fur trade for the french |
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| Italian explorer working for England |
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| What was the trade in Newfoundland ? |
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| Englishman working for the dutch |
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French protestant.
Massacred by the Spanish along with 200+ french |
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| captures three spanish treasure ships |
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| 'effective occupation' in the Atlantic world |
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| French missionary salied into Port Royal |
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| Anti Catholic reformation to North Africa |
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| Another fur trading post along with Quebec |
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- Seneca
- Cayuga
- Onondaga
- Oneida
- Mohawk |
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| Where were the Iroquois defeated in 1609? |
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| The Mayflower's route 1620 |
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| Plymouth (GB) > Newfoundland > Plimoth (US) |
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| "We shall be as a city upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are upon us ..." |
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| Puritan leader and the first govener |
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| Searched for the Northwest passage |
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| Dutch colony along the Hudson River |
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| Dutch Hudosn River traders traveled from ? |
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| Fort Amsterdam > Fort Organge |
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| Massachusetts, New England |
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| Why were there high (75%) mortility rates? |
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| English Christian Separatists |
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| "saying my books and maps were much better cheape to teach them, than my selfe" |
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| What the trade in Virginia after the settlers arrived, in 1616 ? |
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| Virginia confederation tribes |
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| What was the 'accidental colony' 1609 ? |
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| Bermudia - ships were blown ofcourse |
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| "Oure men were destroyed with cruel dyseases as swellings, fluxes, buring fevers and by wars and some exyted souddenlye, but for the moste part they dyeth of mere famine...." |
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| "This was most Lamentable that one of our colony murdered his wofe ripped the childe out of her womb and threw it into the river and after chopped the mother in pieces and salted her for his food." |
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| Percy - True Relation, 1624 |
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| Along what was the tobacco planted ? |
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| "For the natives, they near all dead of the smallpox, so the Lord hath cleared our title to what we possess." |
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| What accounted for the greatest number of deaths in Early Massachuetts? |
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| How did the english spread the religin in the 1660's ? |
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| By writing the bible in Algonquian |
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| What did Roger Williams defend? |
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| Seperating religion from goverment |
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| The cost of a passage from england to America |
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| What was the headright system? |
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| This was when farmers would pay for a slaves passage across the Atlantic in exchange for 50 acres of land per imported slave. |
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Servants would work for someone for so many years and in return the master would pay for the passage.
This was pre organised. |
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| Had no contracts and no money. Hoped that someone woould pay in return for their work. |
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| The route of the redemptioners .... |
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| German lands > Rotterdam or London > North America |
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| How many convicts took the passage from the UK to America ? |
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45,000 +
Most were from England
Rest - Ireland and Scotland |
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| An act for the further preventing robbery, burglary and other felonies |
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| Where was known to be the 'black majority? ' |
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| The land seizers in Ireland |
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| By the English .... this forced the Irish to move away to the Americas. |
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| Why was there a shift to enslaved African Labour ? |
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| Supply and demand of labour - cost/price |
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| What were the competing exports in 1580 - 1640 |
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| What was the Virginia model ? |
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| Introduction of tobacco. Slow development of plantation agriculture |
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| What was the Barbados model ? |
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| Introduction of Sugar. Rapid development of plantation agriculture |
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| Why were the Dutch important ? |
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They controlled most of the Atlantic and seized places form the Portuguese.
Dutch slave traders and trading companies |
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| What country did the Dutch establish ? |
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| Controlling trade to the new world so that it has benefits to home |
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| Where did the portuguese move the sugar front in the 1500's ? |
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| 1480 - 1650 ? to do with sugar |
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| Dutch were refinig the sugar trade. |
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| West indina trading company main interest ? |
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| Where was the greatest numbers of colonial population? |
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| Virgina and Massachusetts |
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| The two biggest cash crop frontiers |
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| Jamacia and Saint - Domingue |
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| The worlds largest sugar producer in 1735 ? |
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| What was the use of Georgia in 1732 ? |
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| A line of defence for Carolina |
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| The use of European Protestant settlements in the 'backcountry' |
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- Check French expansion
- Extend English domination
- Secure western periphery aganist Indians
- Limit slave runaway destinations |
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The name of Blackbeards flagship?
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| What was William Penn (1644 - 1718) ? |
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- Create a society founded o mutal respect, tolerance and individual responsility.
- seperate religious groups might share common interests |
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| What was happening between 1682 - 1730's to the English and indians ? |
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| They were living in peace and the Indian population grew |
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| Argeement between the local Indians and the present government |
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| What was the 'Middle Ground' ? |
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| A place in which peoples adjust to their differences while posistioned between cultures |
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| Jean Baptiste de Richardville (c. 1761 - 1841) |
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| Head chief of the Miami tribe of Indians |
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| The offsring of French fur traders and first nation women |
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- originated from scot/irish decent
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| How much of the indian population were killed by whites in 1620 - 1720 ? |
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| What percentage of the remaining Indians died from disease ? |
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| What was the sickness that wiped out may people in New England 1620 - 1720 |
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| ' if defeated everywhere else I will make my final stand for liberty wit the Scotch-Irish of my native Virginia" |
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| What happened between 1754 - 1763 |
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| Why did the seven years war take place ? |
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| The war began over issues on who owned what land. |
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| What happend after the war ? |
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| The British owned a huge chunck of land |
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| What did the Treaty of Lancaster concern ? |
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| Iroquois confederacy and colonising Virginia and Maryland. Lands west of the Allegheny mountains |
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| What is importat about the Forks of the Ohio river |
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| The french built a fort here that was captured by the french. Fort Duquesne |
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| What happened at Great Meadows. |
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| The battle here was a pre start to the seven years war. It was also Washingtons first loss. |
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| What year did the british begin to plan their military campaigns. |
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Built a military road through the wilderness
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| Reinforcing colonial militia with regular European troops. |
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| How did the British seize Montreal in 1760 ? |
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| By attacking areas around it so that they could then attack Montreal. |
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| What happened to the British Empire in 1763 ? |
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- Quadrupled in size
- Gained land in Africa
- Debt doubled
- Emeny changed, they were now fighting the Indians
- Line of proclamtion |
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| What was the Line of Proclamation ? |
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| It stopped people moving into the Indian Lands |
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| What did Jeffery Amherst do ? |
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| He tied up 3000 french troops at Lake George, New York |
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