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What company allowed for merchants to buy stock and allow for a colony to be funded in America

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Joint Stock Company

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What was the name of the first English Settlement in Virginia

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Jamestown

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3
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Why was tobacco called “Brown Gold”

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It became the primary cash crop of the Southern Colonies

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4
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What was the headlight system

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allowed a person to receive 50 acres of land when they paid their own or someone else’s passage to america

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5
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What distinguished quaker people from other people

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they were pacifists

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6
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What country carried the first slave to virginia

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Dutch

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What did the Puritans and Pilgrims both want to accomplish in the Anglican Church

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they wanted to rid the anglican church of catholic traditions and practices

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8
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what colonies were the pilgrims belonged too

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plymouth

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9
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purpose of the mayflower compact

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designed to establish the government of the new colony

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10
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What form of government is governed by religious leadersq

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theocracy

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11
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what colony was known as the “holy expiermenet”

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Pennyslvania

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12
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Which colony was originally established for catholics

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Maryland

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13
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He granted the virginia company its charter

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King James I

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14
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Received a land grant from Queen Elizabeth I

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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15
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“He does not work, shall not eat”

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John Smith

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16
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He discovered a mild blend for tobacco

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John Rolfe

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17
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The wife of john rolfe

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Pocahontas

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18
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Name the three ship carrying passengers to Jamestown

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Susan Constant, discovery, godspeed

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19
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Founder of a colony for quakers

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William Penn

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20
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Governor of New Netherlands

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Peter Stuyvesant

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21
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Founder of maryland

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Cecil Clavert

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22
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Founder of Georgia

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James Oglethorpe

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23
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A dutch explorer in New Amerstamd

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Henry Hudson

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24
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Founder of the colony of Rhode Island

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Roger Williams

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25
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Was expelled from Massachusetss and died in New York

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Anne Huchinson

26
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virginia was named after her

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queen elizabeth

27
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How did colonists avoid trading with Great Britain

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They smuggled goods into and out of the colonies

28
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Which one of the following was NOT one of the Navigation Acts

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Colonial goods bound for foreign countries were allowed to sail directly to that country

29
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Which one of the following colonies was NOT part of the Dominon of New England

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Virginia

30
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In the structure of a Royal Colony, who was elected by the colonists

A

The Colonial Assembly

31
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Which continent was NOT part of Triangular Trade

A

Asia

32
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What was not part of the diversified Northern Economy

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PLantation farming

33
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Which massachisetts city conducted witch trials

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salem

34
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What was the great awakening

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It was a religious revival to bring New Englanders back to church

35
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Who fought each other during the French and Indian war

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The french and indians fought the british and the coloniss

36
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What was the location of the proclamation Line for the Proclamation of 1763

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The Appalachian Mountains

37
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What was not a cash crop of the Souther colonies before the American revolution

A

Cotton

38
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What was not a major Northern port city prior to the american revolution

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Charleston

39
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What battle ended the French and Indian War

A

Quebec

40
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What was the relationship between a slave and his amster

A

The slave was property

41
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England relaxed its enforcement of the Navigation acts, because they were at war with Frnach and the colonists were paying most of there taxes. What is this called

A

Salutory neglect

42
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Which nation received all land west of the mississippi in the Treaty of Paris of 1763

A

Spain

43
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Which one of the following statements best describes the Enlgihtmenet

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It was the use of reason and scientific method to acquire knowledge

44
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He said that people had certain rights and government must protect the..

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Thomas Jefferosn

45
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He built fort Necessity

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George washington

46
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He was appointed by the governor of the Dominion of New England

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Edmund Andros

47
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He believed in expirmentation and Reason

A

Ben Franklin

48
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He became the King of England

A

William of Ornage

49
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He was a minister during the Great Awakening

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Jonathon edwards

50
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He was the british commander at the battle of quebec

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James wolfe

51
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What items were taxed by the Stamp Act

A 
Wills
Deeds
Playing Cards
Newspapers
legal docs
licenses
pamplets
almancas
52
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Which tax is best described for the stamp act

A

It was a direct tax because it was applied directly to the item when it was purchased by the colonist

53
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What was established in May of 1765 to protest the actions of the British and harass colonial governors and customs agents in the colonies

A

The Sons of Liberty

54
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What was the House of Burgesses that voted laws against King George III

A

It was the elected assembly in Virginia

55
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The stamp act congress met in october of 1765 to ask King George III to have parliament repeal the stamp act. What was the document that they presented to the king to express their dissatisfaction with the stamp act

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The declaration of rights and grievances

56
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How did the colonists say they would resist King George and Parliament until the Stamp Act was repealed

A

Nonimportation agreements among the merchants

57
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Which act passed by Parliament claimed that they had the right to make laws and pass taxes for the colnies

A

Declatory Act

58
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Parliament passed the townshend Acts to help pay for the French and Indian War. What item was the most objected to be taxed

A

Tea

59
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What is true about the Boston Massacre

A

It was not a massacre

60
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What was the function of the Committees of Correspondence

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They were to send messages from colony to colony to keep each other informed about the activities of the British throughout the colonies

61
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What was the last major battle of the American Revolution

A

Yorktown

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