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The Colonial Era Flashcards

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1
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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?

A

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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2
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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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8
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What is Mercantilism?

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European Economics System

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9
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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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12
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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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13
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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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14
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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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15
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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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16
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Who was John Rolfe?

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Person that married Pocahontas

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17
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What was known as the cash crop?

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Tobacco

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18
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What was America made off of?

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Tobacco

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19
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What year was African Slaves brought over for the first time?

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1619

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20
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Where was the Plymouth colony founded?

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Cape Cod, Massacheusetts

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21
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When was the Plymouth colony founded?

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1620

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22
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What was the year of the first Thanksgiving?

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1863

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23
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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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23
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What was the great migration?

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The migration of Puritans to North America

24
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What is the myth of Thanksgiving?

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They had the traditional meal for Thanksgiving

25
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What is the truth of Thanksgiving?

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They had food from fish to sea creatures (Water fowl)

26
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Who was Squanto?

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A Native American that helped the Plymouth Colony in their first winter

27
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Who was Samoset?

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The first Native American to welcome the Plymouth Colony to North America

28
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How did Squanto learn English?

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He learned it from when he was sold into slavery and sent to England

29
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What was the purpose of the Plymouth Colony?

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Puritans were searching for religious freedom from the Anglican Church

30
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Who were the Puritans?

A

Religious Christians seeking to purify the Anglican Church

31
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Who were the Quakers?

A

Society of friends known as pacifists, they believed everybody had inner light from God.

32
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Who were the Pilgrims?

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Religous Seperatists looking to separate from the Anglican Church and it’s way

33
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Did the Puritans achieve “The City on The Hill”?

A

NO! They didn’t have the well-educated perfect, religious society/culture that they wanted

34
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What was the name of the Puritans colony?

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Massacheusetts Bay Colony

35
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What were the Puritans belief system?

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The idea that there was specific people chosen by God in advance to become saved (Presbyterian Beliefs)

36
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Who was the Puritans leader?

A

John Winthrop

37
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Why did the Salem Witch Trials happen?

A

Accusations of witchcraft led to trials in Salem, Massacheusetts

38
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Who was the founder of Pennsylvania?

A

William Penn Jr (Quaker Beliefs)

39
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How did the founder of Pennsylvania get that land?

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It was a gift from the king of England because of his late father’s military service (Also a “get out” present)

40
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Before it was called Pennsylvania, what was it called?

A

Slyvania

41
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What does Philadelphia symbolize/mean?

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City of Brotherly Love

42
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Why is Pennsylvania often called the “Blueprint” of America?

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Because that is what they wanted this New World to essentially look like and their were blueprints on the road of the city

43
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What was some of the good qualities of Quakerism?

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All types of people were able to do most things in this city (Even slaves and African-Americans)

44
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What was the first colony to abolish slavery?

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Pennslyvania

45
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What did the Pennsylvania colony represent?

A

Diversity and Tolerance

46
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Why was South Carolina colonized?

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They wanted to grow grain in order to support the slavery of the Caribbean

47
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What were some things that were good about South Carolina?

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They were able to produce grain and rice

48
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What were some things that were bad and unfair about South Carolina?

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They had thousands of slaves working for their masters and they had many unfair rules

49
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Why are there so few sources like Equiano’s that are available?

A

Many of them never survived or they were able to get educated

50
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What was the Middle Passage?

A

1-3 Months in a ship with disease and abuse and unsanitary conditions

51
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What was the Slave Auction?

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Where African-American were being sold to wealthy people to work their lands

52
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What was the Enlightenment?

A

A European Intellectual Movement

53
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What was the Enlightenment based on?

A

Equality
Freedom
Natural Rights

54
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What is a Natural Law?

A

The creator put into the world including morality (sense of right and wrong)

55
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What is atheism?
What is Deism?

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No belief in any god
God/creator made a world and then left it in motion

56
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What did Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin believe?

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They were Deists but not atheists

57
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What was “The Great Awakening”?

A

Religious Revival in American Colonies

58
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Where did this Awakening come from?

A

Evangelical movement based on having a circumstance where you were “Born Again”

59
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Who was the original Rockstar?

A

George Whitfield

60
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What was the Georgia Colony?

A

Colony founded by James Oglethorpe and it was tolerant to Christians but not Catholics

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