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What European power laid claim to significant portions of land in N. America including the Mississippi River, the midwest, and sections of modern day Canada?

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France

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What European power laid claim to significant portions of land in N. America including modern day Florida, and modern day west?

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Spain

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Who did the United States descend from?

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English Colonies

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Who claimed land in the “New World”?

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English, Spain, French, Swedes and Dutch

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Where did the Dutch settle?

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New York

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Where did the Swedish settle?

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New Jersey

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Was the Roanoke Colony a success or failure?

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It was a failure because they started out and ended up disappearing after a conflict arose between Spain and the Roanokes

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What mountain formed a barrier from North America and the West?

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Appalachian

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What is Mercantilism?

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European Economics System

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What types of things were Europeans after at this time?

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Gold and Silver (Mainly Gold)

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What parts of the world was impacted by Mercantilism?

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Everywhere, Europe was the world’s biggest superpower

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When/Where was Jamestown founded?

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Virginia (James River Banks) /1607

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For what purpose was Jamestown founded?

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To be like New England in the New World

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What was the Jamestown starving time?

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When there was very little food and the Indians were having disagreements with this colony. They fought and only 214 colonists survived.

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Why was John Smith an unlikely leader?

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He was strong and strict and had a temper

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Why did John succeed as leader?

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He used his orderly and strict behavior as an advantage

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Who was John Rolfe?

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Person that married Pocahontas

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What was known as the cash crop?

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Tobacco

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What was America made off of?

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Tobacco

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What year was African Slaves brought over for the first time?

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1619

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Where was the Plymouth colony founded?

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Cape Cod, Massacheusetts

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When was the Plymouth colony founded?

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1620

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What was the year of the first Thanksgiving?

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1863

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What were some of the struggles of the Plymouth Colony?

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Lack Of Food
Lack Of Water
Disease due to different climate

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What was the great migration?
The migration of Puritans to North America
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What is the myth of Thanksgiving?
They had the traditional meal for Thanksgiving
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What is the truth of Thanksgiving?
They had food from fish to sea creatures (Water fowl)
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Who was Squanto?
A Native American that helped the Plymouth Colony in their first winter
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Who was Samoset?
The first Native American to welcome the Plymouth Colony to North America
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How did Squanto learn English?
He learned it from when he was sold into slavery and sent to England
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What was the purpose of the Plymouth Colony?
Puritans were searching for religious freedom from the Anglican Church
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Who were the Puritans?
Religious Christians seeking to purify the Anglican Church
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Who were the Quakers?
Society of friends known as pacifists, they believed everybody had inner light from God.
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Who were the Pilgrims?
Religous Seperatists looking to separate from the Anglican Church and it's way
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Did the Puritans achieve "The City on The Hill"?
NO! They didn't have the well-educated perfect, religious society/culture that they wanted
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What was the name of the Puritans colony?
Massacheusetts Bay Colony
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What were the Puritans belief system?
The idea that there was specific people chosen by God in advance to become saved (Presbyterian Beliefs)
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Who was the Puritans leader?
John Winthrop
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Why did the Salem Witch Trials happen?
Accusations of witchcraft led to trials in Salem, Massacheusetts
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Who was the founder of Pennsylvania?
William Penn Jr (Quaker Beliefs)
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How did the founder of Pennsylvania get that land?
It was a gift from the king of England because of his late father's military service (Also a "get out" present)
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Before it was called Pennsylvania, what was it called?
Slyvania
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What does Philadelphia symbolize/mean?
City of Brotherly Love
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Why is Pennsylvania often called the "Blueprint" of America?
Because that is what they wanted this New World to essentially look like and their were blueprints on the road of the city
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What was some of the good qualities of Quakerism?
All types of people were able to do most things in this city (Even slaves and African-Americans)
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What was the first colony to abolish slavery?
Pennslyvania
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What did the Pennsylvania colony represent?
Diversity and Tolerance
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Why was South Carolina colonized?
They wanted to grow grain in order to support the slavery of the Caribbean
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What were some things that were good about South Carolina?
They were able to produce grain and rice
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What were some things that were bad and unfair about South Carolina?
They had thousands of slaves working for their masters and they had many unfair rules
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Why are there so few sources like Equiano’s that are available?
Many of them never survived or they were able to get educated
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What was the Middle Passage?
1-3 Months in a ship with disease and abuse and unsanitary conditions
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What was the Slave Auction?
Where African-American were being sold to wealthy people to work their lands
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What was the Enlightenment?
A European Intellectual Movement
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What was the Enlightenment based on?
Equality Freedom Natural Rights
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What is a Natural Law?
The creator put into the world including morality (sense of right and wrong)
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What is atheism? What is Deism?
No belief in any god God/creator made a world and then left it in motion
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What did Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin believe?
They were Deists but not atheists
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What was "The Great Awakening"?
Religious Revival in American Colonies
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Where did this Awakening come from?
Evangelical movement based on having a circumstance where you were "Born Again"
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Who was the original Rockstar?
George Whitfield
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What was the Georgia Colony?
Colony founded by James Oglethorpe and it was tolerant to Christians but not Catholics
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