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Question 1

How Native Americans came to Americas

Answer 1

1.Traditionally, Native Americans are believed to have descended from northeast Asia, arriving over a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska some 12,000 years ago and then migrating across North and South America

Question 2

Conquest of the Incas

Answer 2

1. 1. The Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire was a process through which a group of Spaniards led by Francisco Pizarro succeeded in toppling the Inca Empire in the early 16th-century, as part of the discovery and conquest of the new world

Question 3

Conquest of the Aztecs

Answer 3

1. Between 1519 and 1521, Spanish conquistadors, led by Hernán Cortés, took over the Aztec Empire. … It was one of the most important events in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire was devastating to the Aztec people

Question 4

Columbus sails to Americas

Answer 4

1. From the Spanish port of Palos, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sets sail in command of three ships—the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina—on a journey to find a western sea route to China, India, and the fabled gold and spice islands of Asia

Question 5

Settling of Jamestown

Answer 5

1. The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607 in Virginia. Jamestown was named for King James I of England. It was destroyed later in the seventeenth century in an uprising of Virginians against the governor.

Question 6

Pilgrims settle Plymouth mouth

Answer 6

1. a rock at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on which the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower are said to have stepped ashore when they landed in America in 1620

Question 7

Pequot War

Answer 7

1. The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place between 1636 and 1638 in New England between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their Native American allies (the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes).

Question 8

French-Indian War

Answer 8

1. A series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America between 1754 and 1763. The French and Indian War was the American phase of the Seven Years’ War, which was then underway in Europe.

Question 9

Colombian Exchange

Answer 9

1. Process of transferring people, crops, and animals from Europe and Africa over to North America

Question 10

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 10

1. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain’s acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years’ War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains

Question 11

Stamp Act

Answer 11

1. an act regulating stamp duty (a tax on the legal recognition of documents).

Question 12

Townschend Act

Answer 12

1. A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767, the Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies.

Question 13

Boston Massacre

Answer 13

1. noun, American History. 1. a riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons. Examples from the Web for Boston Massacre.

Question 14

Sugar/Molasses Act

Answer 14

1. a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market. Compare Navigation Act.

Question 15

Writs of Assistance

Answer 15

1. a writ issued to a law officer (such as a sheriff or marshal) for the enforcement of a court order or decree; especially :one used to enforce an order for the possession of lands.

Question 16

Navigation Act

Answer 16

1. 1. any of several acts of Parliament between 1651 and 1847 designed primarily to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great Britain.

Question 17

Currency Act

Answer 17

1. The Currency Act is one of many several Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America. The Acts sought to protect British merchants and creditors from being paid in depreciated colonial currency.

Question 18

Tea Act

Answer 18

1. 13 Geo 3 c 44) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.

Question 19

Boston Tea Act

Answer 19

1. cember 16, 1773) in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company. Origin of Boston Tea Party.

Question 20

Intolerable Act

Answer 20

1.The Intolerable Acts (also called the Coercive Acts) were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests.