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Colonies Flashcards

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What is the starving time?

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(1609-1610) A period of hunger where the colonist ate dead people, animals and anything they could find to survive the harsh winter.

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Who was John Smith? And what did he improve?

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John Smith was the captain and he helped improved relations with the Indians

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Why do the Puritans and Pilgrims leave England?

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They leave England for religious persecutions.

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4
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Tabacco help create what?

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Major social and economic divisions b/w who owned land and who did not.

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Middle Colonies

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New York
New Jersey
Delaware 
Maryland
Pennsylvania
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What was Beacon’s Rebellions?

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Nathaniel Beacon raised an army to fight the Indians, and marched to VA, to confront the assembly. He dies at the end.

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In 1607, what was permanent English settlement? Who founded it?

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Jamestown, founded by the Virginia Company.

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13 Colonies

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Georgia 
Maryland 
Pennsylvania
Virginia
New York 
New Jersey 
South Carolina 
North Carolina
Delaware 
Connecticut 
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
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Where in the Colonies did Slavery exist the most?

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In the Southen Colonies

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Results of Beacon’s Rebellion?

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Planters began to look for a new labor force, therefore they increased African Slavery

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Southern Economy

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Agricultural cash crops

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12
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Who brought Tabacco to the New World?

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John Rolf

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What were Indenture Servants?

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People who worked for a set number of years to repay the person who brought them to the Colonies.

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What was the result after the Colonist took the Indians land?

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Natives fled the region and looked for new places to live.

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Southern Colonies

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Georgia
South and North Carolina
Virginia

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What was the difference b/w Puritans and Pilgrims?

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Pilgrims wanted to separate from the Anglican church, and Puritans wanted to purify the church.

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Who were the Neighboring Indians?

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Powhatan Indians

18
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In 1619, The House of Burgesses was founded, what was it?

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A legislative assembly where representatives met to make laws for Virginia.

19
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What is the May Flower compact?

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1st agreement of self government to be created and enforced in America.

20
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What was King Philips War?

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Metacom form the United tribes attacks colonial settlements!

21
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What was the results for King Philips War?

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  • Metacom beheaded
  • no other serious treaty’s to New England
  • Southern land became English settlements
22
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How was the government in Massachusetts in the late 1600’s?

What was one exception?

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Almost a self gov but under English rule

23
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What were the Salem Witch Trials? When?

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1692- a series of trials, held by church leaders, were 150 Colonies are acusará of witchcraft.

24
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What was the importance of the Salem Witch Trials?

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First example of mass hysteria in the history of the US.

25
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What were the Navigation acts of 1660?

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British law controles colonial trade in Mass. after the violation of the Navigation acts.

26
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What was the Middle passage?

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The trip that the slaves took from Africa to the US.

27
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What was the Great Awakening?

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Religious Revival Movement

28
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What were the results of the Great Awakening?

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  • First time Colonies United
  • Education became very important
  • Revolutionalism
29
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What were the battles that started the French and Indian war?

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Battles at Fort Necessity

30
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Who were fighting and the F&I war?

When was it?

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1754- 1763

French and Indians. Vs. Britain and English Colonies

31
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Why did the F&I war happen?

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Conflict over land for fue trapping in the Ohio Valley.

32
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When and what was the battle of Quebec?

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1759

- Force the French to surrender!

33
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What Treaty ended that F&I war?

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Treaty of Paris in 1763

34
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What were the terms of the Treaty of Paris?

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England got all French territory east of the Mississippi River.

  • France lost all territory in US except little island
35
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What is the Proclamation of 1763?

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Colonists not allowed to cross the AP maintains.

36
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What was the colonists reaction to the Proclamation of 1763?

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No cop no stop, they still continued to cross over the AP mountains.

37
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What was the Stamp Act of 1765?

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England puts a tax on all paper goods.

38
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What were the colonists reaction to the Stamp Act of 1765?

What were the Sons of Liberty?

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The stamp act congress and the sons of Liberty- resistants to the tax.

39
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What were the Townshed acts of 1767?

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New taxes on paper, glass, tea and led

40
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What were the Colonists reaction to the Townshed acts of 1767?

Who were the Daughters of Liberty?

A

Boycotted everything made in England!

D of L- made clothes so ppl won’t spend on British clothes.

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