149 Cards in this Set
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What Indian helped the Plymouth Colony survive? Which tribe was he the last of? Which tribe did he join after his return to America?
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Squanto; Pawtuckets; Wampanoags
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Who was the famous courtier of Queen Elizabeth I who helped found Roanoke Colony and was later executed by the King of Spain?
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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What lady was a religious dissenter in Massachusetts, claimed direct revelations from God, was eventually forced to flee to Rhode Island, and later died with children on Long Island?
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Anne Hutchinson
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Who was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and what sermon is he famous for?
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Winthrop; A City on a Hill
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Whose tough discipline saved the Jamestown Colony for a while and who did he claim saved him from death at the hands of angry Indians.
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John Smith; Pocahontas
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What English philanthropist founded a prison colony among the British colonies?
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James Oglethorpe
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He was brother to King Charles II, he received lots of land between Maryland and Connecticut and gave it away, what was his title and what land did he give away?
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James, Duke of York; land south of NY
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Who was the first governor of the Plymouth Colony and what book did he write?
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William Bradford; Of Plymouth Plantation
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What mercenary, traveler, and teller of tall tails got his version of discovering the New World into print and on to maps before Columbus?
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Amerigo Vespucci
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From whom did North and South Carolina get their names?
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King Charles II
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What French explorer established the first European trading Post at the mouth of the Arkansas River in 1686?
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Henri de Tonti
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For whom was Virginia named, and by who?
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Elizabeth I; Sir Walter Raleigh
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For whom was Maryland named and why?
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Henrietta Maria; she was the Catholic queen
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For whom was the colony of Georgia named?
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King George II
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Who was the Indian Chief who almost killed the leader of the Jamestown Colony and what tribe was he chief of?
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Powhatan; Pamunkey Tribe
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Of all the diseases the Europeans brought to the New World, what was the disease they discovered here and took back to Europe, with devastating effect?
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syphilis
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This explorer eventually had a river and a bay named for him, and even though he was English he explored for the Dutch, who was he?
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Henry Hudson
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With the native population dead of disease, for a work force the Spanish had to turn to what?
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African slaves
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Which Spanish explorer was the first European to visit Arkansas?
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De Soto
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What was the main reason why Columbus had such difficulty in gaining financing?
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no ship could survive the estimated distance to Asia
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Europeans developed their craving for spices as a direct result of their involvement in this great historical event?
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the Crusades
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Which European nation established the best relationship with the Indian peoples they found in the New World?
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France
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Many explorers of the New World came for the three "Gs", what are they?
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God, gold, and glory
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Who was the man who founded the Maryland Colony as a religious haven?
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Lord Baltimore
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What was the first document to be signed to form an American colonial government?
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The Mayflower Compact
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Who first advised the Separation of Church and State?
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Roger Williams
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To augment their work force, the British colonies at first relied upon what type of labor?
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indentured servants
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The Pennsylvania Dutch were not Dutch but what nationality?
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German
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What was the nationality of the immigrants who first settled in western Pennsylvania, often squatting on others' land, then moved into the Appalachian Mountain valleys on the frontier because they hated government interference & crowds, & distilled America's first whisky?
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Scotch-Irish
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What French explorer was the first to traverse the near entire length of the Mississippi river and discover that it emptied into the Gulf of Mexico?
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La Salle
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He was the only future American president to serve with the British in the French and Indian War?
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George Washington
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What nation lost its New World possessions as a result of the French and Indian War?
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France
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Where did American colonial settlement of the westward interior generally end?
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the Appalachians
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The Great Awakening changed the course of American religion by moving it more in the direction of what popular frontier theology?
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Arminianism (free will)
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What religion predominated in the Southern colonies during the colonial period?
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the Anglican church
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The popular assemblies of the American colonies' early government were patterned generally after what institution of England's government?
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Parliament
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The Great Awakening, the spiritual revival of the mid-1700s, began in the small New England Congregational Church of what minister?
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Jonathan Edwards
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The Great Awakening was sustained and spread by the outstanding preaching of what young Methodist preacher from England?
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George Whitefield
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Log Cabin College, founded by the Great Awakening revivalist William Tennant, later became what University?
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Princeton
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Who founded Rhode Island as a religious haven for dissenters from Puritanism?
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Roger Williams
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As a result of their victory in the French and Indian War the British received what territory?
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Canada and the area between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River
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What policies did the New England colonies have for the establishment of new settlements?
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had to have a church, the ability to pay a preacher, a school, the ability to pay a teacher, and a meeting house
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What policies did the Southern colonies have for establishment of new settlements?
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none
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What colonial nation was the first to import slaves?
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Spain
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What colonial nation exploited its land for furs?
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France
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What colonial nation exploited its land for gold?
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Spain
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In 1682, La Salle established a small trading post, Ft. Prudhomme, on the shores of the Mississippi River, and this small fort grew into what modern city?
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Memphis
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Virtually all of this colonial nation's colonists were men who married natives.
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France
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What killed more native Americans: European diseases or all the wars and enforced slavery which resulted from the European discovery of the New World?
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European diseases
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Did the bland European diet have any thing to do with the discovery of the New World?
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Yes
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Did Europeans have any success in transplanting feudalism to the New World?
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No
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What was the purpose of the British mercantile system?
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to ensure a monopoly on colonial trade
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What was the basis for suffrage in the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
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adult male who owned land or paid taxes
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What is the theological concept of Arminianism more popularly known as?
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free will
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The first black slaves brought to the English colonies, were brought first to what Colony?.
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Jamestown
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Under French and Spanish rules of slavery, what was the legal status of children born of the union free master and slave mother?
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free
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Although Native North Americans rejected white values and customs, what was their attitude towards the products of European manufacturing?
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they liked and desired European goods
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Which of the 13 American colonies had the best record of good relations with its Indian population?
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Pennsylvania
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How were the black slaves brought to the English colonies most commonly classified as regarded the length of their time in bondage?
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slaves for life
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Under English rules of slavery, how were children born to a slave woman classified?
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slave
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What colony did John Mason have a hand in founding?
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New Hampshire
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What colony was "the City on a Hill" colony?
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Massachusetts Bay
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What English legislation endeavored to stop British colonies from trading with the Dutch and French by forcing them to use only English ships?
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Navigation Acts
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Who founded Connecticut and what does its name mean?
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Puritans from Massachusetts; Lone River Place
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What is the oldest city in the United States, who founded it and when?
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St. Augustine; the Spanish; 1565
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The American Colonies were critical to the British Mercantile System because they provided what TWO things?
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raw materials and a market
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England's first and most successful colony in Virginia, when was it founded and whom did it honor?
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1607; King James I
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Which colony was originally founded as a refuge for Catholics?
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Maryland
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What was the first major city of the Carolinas and what religious group chose it as its first settlement in the New World?
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Charleston; the Jews
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Fernando Gorges tried unsuccessfully to colonize what rugged costal area?
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Maine
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For whom was Delaware named, and what relationship did this colony have with Pennsylvania?
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Baron de la Warr; shared a governor
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What colony was named for an island in the English Chanel off of France, and who did the naming?
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New Jersey; Carteret
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When, where and why did the infamous witch trials occur?
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1692; Salem; heightened feelings of fear, anger, and frustration due to the end of Puritan theocracy
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What colony's name has "woods" in it, and whose woods were they?
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Pennsylvania; Penn's
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What is the proper name for the Quakers?
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The Society of Friends
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What animal did the Spanish bring to the New World and how did it change the life of the native Indians?
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horses; made hunting easier
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What important food, discovered in the New World, now has international fame because of McDonalds?
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potatoes
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What is the French term for their fur trappers and what does it mean?
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courier de bois; wood runner
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Which colony began when dissenters fled from Massachusetts and soon attracted other dissenters.
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Rhode Island
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What did the Spanish call their explorers?
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conquistadors
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What colony was the "Quaker" colony and how did they treat those of other religions?
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Pennsylvania; peacefully
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Which colony was originally Dutch and who took over and renamed it?
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New York; British
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What is the oldest college in our nation, who founded it and for whom was it named?
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Harvard; Congregationalists; John Harvard
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Properly, what should the New World have been named?
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Columbia
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What did the Aztecs use to brew their favorite drink and with what New World disease was it associated with?
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chocolate; syphilis
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What was the name of the movement which opposed the end of having a state church?
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antidisestablishmentarianism
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What New World food still feeds more animals than humans around the world?
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maize
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What New World food did Thomas Jefferson have a hand in popularizing even though the British thought it was poisonous and the French thought was an aphrodisiac?
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tomatoes
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What is the proper term for those people we popularly refer to as "Puritans."
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Separatists
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What despised weed saved the Jamestown Colony from bankruptcy?
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tobacco
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Know four inventions or discoveries for which Benjamin Franklin is famous.
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lightning rod, Franklin stove, bifocals,volunteer fire departments
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What was a New World animal species which the explorers brought back to Europe with them and it became a great success, even though misnamed as to its origin?
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turkey
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What were some of the important New World food discoveries and what were some Old World food standards?
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New World: tomatoes, potatoes, chocolate, maize
Old World: sugar cane, rice, onions, apples, coffee
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Know the names of the 13 Original English Colonies.
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Massachusetts, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Virginia, Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland, Pennsylvania
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Colonial America was involved in two triangular systems of trade, what were they?
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the Golden triangle and the other triangle
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What were the products carried on each of the three legs of the "Golden Triangle."
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rum; slaves; molasses, gold & slaves
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Under English rules of slavery, how many generations had to occur before a child of a union between a master and a slave woman would be born free?
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six
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How did some Europeans view the "New World" in relation to the wealth of China and the spice islands?
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an obstacle
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What ancient Greek goddess was portrayed inside the old senate chamber riding the chariot of time and recording their proceedings?
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Cilo
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Christopher Columbus landed in the "New World" on October 12th of what year?
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1492
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What significant name did Columbus give to the small cay he discovered that October Day?
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San Salvador
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What Two Italian cities for many years monopolized the eastern spice trade coming into Europe?
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Genoa & Venice
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In the year Columbus sailed west looking for spices, what spice in Spain was worth its weight in gold?
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pepper
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What is the only true spice found in the New World?
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allspice
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The pope initially divided the "New World" between Spain and what competing nation?
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Portugal
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When the sailors on Columbus' flag ship mutinied and demanded to return home, how many days did Columbus ask for before he would agree to turn around?
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three
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Some explorers came to the "New World" looking for a way around it; what was this hoped for short-cut around the new continent generally called?
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Northwest Passage
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What was the name first English child to be born in the "New World?"
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Virginia Dare
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The first British colony in the "New World," also known as the "Lost Colony," was founded upon what Island?
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Roanoke
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Virginia was named for what English monarch famous for being the "Virgin Queen?"
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Queen Elizabeth I
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When John White returned to find his colony "lost," after much searching he found carved on a tree what one word?
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Croatoan
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The border between Maryland and Pennsylvania was surveyed by what two men?
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Mason & Dixon
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The religious group called "Separatists" because they wanted to separate from the Anglican Church, but why were they more popularly called "Puritans?"
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they wanted to worship in a "pure" Christian form and "purify" the church of Catholic influences
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While called "Separatists" and "Puritans" by others, these worshipers called themselves by what name?
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Congregationalists
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Pilgrim colonists sailed from Plymouth, England, in September of 1620, on what ship?
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the Mayflower
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In the fall of 1621, the Pilgrims of Plymouth invited their Indian neighbors to join them for what celebration?
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Thanksgiving
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What famous piece of advice did Priscilla Mullins finally give John Alden who was bringing her messages of love from his friend Miles Standish?
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"Speak for yourself, John."
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The Dutch made a remarkable land deal in 1626, when they bought Manhattan Island from the local Indians for beads and trinkets worth about how many dollars?
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$24
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Peter Stuyvesant was the governor of what colony?
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New York (New Amsterdam)
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Boo, Spook, Stoop, Snoop, Boss, Kooky, and Crib are all words that the English language has taken from this language?
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Dutch
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The English colonist used the nickname Knickerbockers for their quaint neighbors who were?
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Dutch
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The nickname Knickerbockers referred to what article of ethnic clothing?
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shorts
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What two Presidential names are of Dutch origin?
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van Buren and Roosevelt
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What current holiday figure was adapted from the Dutch tradition?
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Santa Claus
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What are two famous street names did New York City get from its Dutch past?
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Wall Street & Broadway
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The use of Log Cabins as the basic housing unit on the American frontier was a legacy brought by what immigrants?
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the Swedes
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Ft. Christina, later Wilmington, Delaware, was a colony first established by what Europeans?
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the Swedes
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George Fox, an English religious eccentric and dissident, was the founder of what religious sect?
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the Quakers
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The first Baptists to come to the American colonies came to what colony?
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Rhode Island
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The territory south of Virginia, before it was called North Carolina, was known as what?
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Albemarle
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Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper was one of the major leaders in the creation of what colony?
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South Carolina
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What later famous European political philosopher authored the "Fundamental Constitutions of the Carolinas," as those colonies' governmental structure?
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John Locke
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James Oglethorpe was a wealthy British philanthropist who was instrumental in the founding of what colony?
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Georgia
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What religious visionary came as a missionary to work with the first colonists of Georgia?
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John Wesley
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One of the crops which grew well in Georgia was Indigo which is processed to produce what?
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dye
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Between the Piedmont and the Tidewater areas of the southern colonial east coast ran an important line along which many cities would develop, it was called the what?
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the Fall Line
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What is the meaning of the term Piedmont?
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Foothills
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The colonial program which provided 40 acres of free land to any man who would come to a colony was known as what?
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the Headwright System
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Goober, yam, banana, tote, and banjo were words brought to the English colonies by what people?
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African slaves
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African slaves managed to bring Gumbo seeds with them to the English colonies where this plant was re-named what?
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okra
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African slave introduced what cooking technique to the English colonies?
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deep frying
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What black music innovation began in New Orleans and was built upon individual interpretation and instrumental skill?
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jazz
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What black music innovation began as slaves created songs to interprete Christian themes from their own viewpoint?
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spirituals
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Which black music innovation began in Memphis and vividly expressed feeling despair and hopelessness?
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the Blues
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What Christian teaching did the slaves re-interpret as "Freedom?"
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salvation
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Who was the slaves favorite biblical hero?
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Moses
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What former slave became famous as a teller of folk tales involving Brer' Rabbit and Brer' Bear?
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Uncle Remus
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What Christian teaching did the slaves re-interpret as "Deliverance?"
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grace
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Normally, southern plantations were oriented towards what important physical feature?
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the river
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HIST 101: Exam 1