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Location, lifestyle, and contribution of Clovis

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New Mexico, hunters and gatherers, spearheads

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Location lifestyle and contribution of Anasazi

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Southwest, agricultural, irrigation canals

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Location, lifestyle, and contribution of Iroquois

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Ontario/New York, advanced government, long houses

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Location, lifestyle, and contribution of the Sioux

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Great plains, nomads, teepees

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What was the beringia land bridge

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Connected Asia to North America and is what ancient American’s used to migrate

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Explain the route in the triangular trade

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America and gave sugar tobacco and cotton to Europe, Europe gave rum textiles and manufactured goods to Africa, Africa gave the slaves to the Americas

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Who was involved in the triangular trade

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America to Europe to Africa

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Why did Spain explore the new worlds

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God gold and glory

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Who explored most of the Southwest including Arizona in 1540

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Francisco Coronado

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Who convinced the colony of Jamestown to focus on tobacco

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John Rolfe

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How did James town turn from a barren colony to a booming colony

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They started growing tobacco

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Define an indentured servant

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Someone who signs in agreement to work for a period of 4 to 7 years in exchange for passage to America

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How were the indentured servant’s conditions

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Horrible, they only eat peas and a piece of bread, and they worked all day long with no breaks

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Describe the joint stock company

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Several investors pull their money together to try to earn a profit

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Who founded the Massachusetts Bay colony

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John Winthrop and the Puritans

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What was John Winthrop’s reasoning behind developing the Massachusetts Bay colony

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He believed God was calling him to create a holy community

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What was the Stono rebellion known for

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It was the largest and most successful slave rebellion in colonial America

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Describe the Stono rebellion

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They killed their owners, then marched from plantation to plantation killing those owners until finally surrounded and put down by a white militia

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What was the outcome of the Stono rebellion

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Stricter slave laws resulting in a harsher conditions for the slaves

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What happened in the slave resistance

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The slaves were discrete by breaking tools, faking illnesses, and working slowly

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What was the goal in Nathaniel Bacons rebellion

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A rebellion against Governor Berkley

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What happened to end the rebellion

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Bacon died of illness marching to Jamestown and the rebellion died out due to having no leader

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Who did Governor Berkley have a close relationship with

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The Indians

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What did Governor Berkley impose that upsets the lower-class

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Higher taxes that only paid for things that benefited the rich

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What was the benefit of Virginia becoming a real colony and what year did this happen

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1624, it is now under direct control of the king

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What was the first representative body in colonial America

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House of Brugess

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What was the Quaker belief

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Everyone has been a light, they are pacifist

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What did William pen offer to every male

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50 acres of land, the right to vote, freedom of religion and a representative assembly

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What did Roger Williams believe

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Forced religion stinks in the nostrils of God

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What happened to Roger Williams when they try to arrest him

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He fled to Rhode Island

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What did anne Hutchinson believe

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Worshipers don’t need church or a minister to interpret the Bible for themselves

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Why did they try to arrest Anne hutchinson and what happened

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They tried to arrest her for holding an event at her house to read the Bible that didn’t agree with the church, she fled to Rhode Island

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What did John Winthrop mean when he referred to hid colony as “a city on a hill”

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He meant that everyone should look up to this colony and that it was a good example

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Who were the officials in charge of the colonies

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Members of the church

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Who was ann Bradstreet

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America’s first English-speaking poet

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Who founded the colony of Jamestown in Virginia in 1607

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John Smith

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