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31 Cards in this Set
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From how many years ago do the archaelogical finds at Clovis, New Mexico give evidence of human habitation?
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More than 14,000 years ago
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What plant became the basis of the agricultural revolution in the Eastern woodlands via the Missippians?
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corn/maze
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Why were the Portuguese motivated toward oceanic exploration?
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Geography connected to Atlantic Ocean, wanted allies for crusades on Islam; wanted to cut out Muslim middlemen in spice trades; Alternate trade routes to oriental markets and their current trade routes were too dangerous, and simple curiousity
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Who were instrumental to the survival of New Mexico in the 1600s?
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Spanish missionaries who wanted to maintain a garrison
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What enabled Jamestown to finally prosper?
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Tobacco
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What were the causes of the English Civil War
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King Charles I: disbanded parliament, married Catholic French King's sister, levied taxes (no parliament), granted religious freedom to Catholics while encouraging the Church of England to prosecute Puritans
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Who led the French expedition that traced the course of the Missippi River to the Gulf of Mexico?
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Le Saille, he claimed all water ways that drained into Mississippi for France (Louisiana)
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What factors contributed to the Pueblo revolt of 1680?
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Lack of protection against hostile Indians, severe drought, prolonged famine, and brutal suppression of Pueblo religious rights and practices
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What was the underlying cause of Bacon's Rebellion?
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Wanted westward expansion and the rich were too rich and the poor were too poor so they wanted to expand to get more land
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After Virginia and Maryland planters passed a series of laws that sharpened distinctions between indentured servants and slaves, what was the status of any children fathered by a freedman and born to a slave woman?
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Born a slave
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Describe the problems with using indentured servants to meet labored needs.
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Had to house them, feed them, give them land when they were done working, working time was only 7 years, and died too easily
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Why did slave owners in Britain's mainland colonies encourage slaves to form families?
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Made them less likely to run away and easier to control while also making more slaves
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What did Britain's mainland colonies represent by the mid-eighteenth century?
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Largest concentration of humans that even inhabited North America
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What largely influenced the culture, society, and commerce of Pennsylvania?
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fish, crops, natural resources
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What was the most prosperous segment of the New England economy by the mid-eighteenth century?
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Shipbuilding
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Why are the Paxton Boys historically significant?
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Massacred peaceful Conostovia Indian families in PA in 1763 under the treaty
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Why did the Prime Minister Robert Greenville decide to keep a large garrison of British soldiers in the American colonies?
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Keep young men employed overseas rather than jobless at home, enforce peace between indians and colonists, protection of territories, and preventing re-conquest
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In 1771, previously simmering rural deiscontent exploded in North Carolina. Why?
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NC had plantation people who taxed lower people to build a new house for the governor which caused a riot
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What actions did Congress pursue in the months following the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
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Organized efforts to drive British out of Concord, heart of rebellion was in New England; largest city, largest port, attempted to gain support of Canadian colonies (appeal to Canada who lost New France to Britain), organize an army
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Describe the northern strategy of the British during the American Revolution.
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Capture New England and isolate from other colonies, invading from Canal North, needed control of Hudson River Valley (near NYC), colonists wanted West Point but was given to British by Benedict Arnold so they couldn't bomb British on Hudson River.
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Why was the American victory at Saratoga significant?
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Got the French on American side, morale boosts, knew colonists wanted to win
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What did the Americans have to achieve for their revolution to be a success?
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Had to achieve a military victory, needed a good plan of self-governing, needed unity (13 seperate nations, treaties were all different)
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Did Benjamin Franklin refuse European request to wear a beaver hat and have his portrait painted while he was in Europe?
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No, French thought very highly of him
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Did Lord Dunmore offer freedom to American slaves who took up arms for the British?
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Yes
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Examine the highlights and outcome of the British and American struggle to control Boston during late 1775 and early 1776.
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Battle of Bunker Hill (british dead), Capture of Fort Tindercoga and cannon moving, declared independence in paper.
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By what name did Americans refer to their land after the revolution, to emphasize their separation from Britain?
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Columbia
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According to the textbook, how was the Confederation government transformed into a sovereign ruling body?
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several states surrendered claims to western territories
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Which states did Congress create from the Old Northwest?
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Winsconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana
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In 1783, did the British government encourage and expand American trade participation in the British West Indies?
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No, banned it.
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Did most Congressmen fear the idea of democratic governance and giving a strong voice to average people in the Old Northwest?
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Yes, scared of people becoming to powerful in the area
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Did the British provide large amounts of material support to Indian tribes in the Old Northwest after the American Revolution?
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No, let them fend for themselves
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