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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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Why was tobacco called “Brown Gold”

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It became the primary cash crop of the Southern Colonies

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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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What distinguished quaker people from other people

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they were pacifists

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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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what colonies were the pilgrims belonged too

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plymouth

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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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What form of government is governed by religious leadersq

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theocracy

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what colony was known as the “holy expiermenet”

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Pennyslvania

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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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“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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Founder of the colony of Rhode Island

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Roger Williams

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Was expelled from Massachusetss and died in New York
Anne Huchinson
26
virginia was named after her
queen elizabeth
27
How did colonists avoid trading with Great Britain
They smuggled goods into and out of the colonies
28
Which one of the following was NOT one of the Navigation Acts
Colonial goods bound for foreign countries were allowed to sail directly to that country
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Which one of the following colonies was NOT part of the Dominon of New England
Virginia
30
In the structure of a Royal Colony, who was elected by the colonists
The Colonial Assembly
31
Which continent was NOT part of Triangular Trade
Asia
32
What was not part of the diversified Northern Economy
PLantation farming
33
Which massachisetts city conducted witch trials
salem
34
What was the great awakening
It was a religious revival to bring New Englanders back to church
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Who fought each other during the French and Indian war
The french and indians fought the british and the coloniss
36
What was the location of the proclamation Line for the Proclamation of 1763
The Appalachian Mountains
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What was not a cash crop of the Souther colonies before the American revolution
Cotton
38
What was not a major Northern port city prior to the american revolution
Charleston
39
What battle ended the French and Indian War
Quebec
40
What was the relationship between a slave and his amster
The slave was property
41
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
Salutory neglect
42
Which nation received all land west of the mississippi in the Treaty of Paris of 1763
Spain
43
Which one of the following statements best describes the Enlgihtmenet
It was the use of reason and scientific method to acquire knowledge
44
He said that people had certain rights and government must protect the..
Thomas Jefferosn
45
He built fort Necessity
George washington
46
He was appointed by the governor of the Dominion of New England
Edmund Andros
47
He believed in expirmentation and Reason
Ben Franklin
48
He became the King of England
William of Ornage
49
He was a minister during the Great Awakening
Jonathon edwards
50
He was the british commander at the battle of quebec
James wolfe
51
What items were taxed by the Stamp Act
``` Wills Deeds Playing Cards Newspapers legal docs licenses pamplets almancas ```
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Which tax is best described for the stamp act
It was a direct tax because it was applied directly to the item when it was purchased by the colonist
53
What was established in May of 1765 to protest the actions of the British and harass colonial governors and customs agents in the colonies
The Sons of Liberty
54
What was the House of Burgesses that voted laws against King George III
It was the elected assembly in Virginia
55
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
The declaration of rights and grievances
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How did the colonists say they would resist King George and Parliament until the Stamp Act was repealed
Nonimportation agreements among the merchants
57
Which act passed by Parliament claimed that they had the right to make laws and pass taxes for the colnies
Declatory Act
58
Parliament passed the townshend Acts to help pay for the French and Indian War. What item was the most objected to be taxed
Tea
59
What is true about the Boston Massacre
It was not a massacre
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What was the function of the Committees of Correspondence
They were to send messages from colony to colony to keep each other informed about the activities of the British throughout the colonies
61
What was the last major battle of the American Revolution
Yorktown

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