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Flashcards by paul.schneider, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by paul.schneider
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| Question | Answer |
| What was the Agricultural Revolution? | A Shift to Basic Crops instead of gathering in wild |
| Trading of European goods to Native Americans were part of what? | Colombian Exchange |
| What was the encomienda system? | The colonial leaders who gained power over Native tribes and forced the tribesmen and women into forced labor. |
| What did Giovanni da Verrazzano and Jacques Cartier separately try to find? | A northwest passage around or through North America |
| What did John Rolfe try to grow in the Virginia colony? | Tobacco, the "stinking weed" |
| What was a headright? | 50-acre lot to pay rent on, once they paid their own way to the Virginia colony. |
| Who were the Scrooby Separatists and where did they travel before arriving to the New World? | Pilgrims traveled from England to Holland in order to practice their form of Christianity but then feared they were too Dutch and boarded the Mayflower for America. |
| What Massachusetts governor was first called a Puritan. | John Winthrop |
| What colony did James Oglethorpe establish and why? | Georgia, to try to stop Spanish expansion of Florida up the Atlantic coast. |
| What were the most important lessons Puritan parents were to teach their children? | The principles of Christianity and how to read. |
| What did Puritans in Connecticut and Massachusetts want their political leaders to be? | Members of the Congregational churches and defenders of orthodox, or strict, religion. |
| What state had the highest percent of slaves in the population? | Georgia - 60% were slaves |
| What acts by the British Parliament successfully made the colonists used to buying British goods? | The Navigation Acts |
| What happened in Maryland after King James of England was overthrown? | The Protestants and Catholics compromised to increase religious tolerance. |
| What was "middle ground" between Native Americans? | Tribes around the Appalachian Mountains loosely organized together to resist American expansion. |
| For many Americans, what was the important element of the Enlightenment? | Practical Experimentation. |
| Where did the Great Awakening start? | New England in the 1730s |
| When did the American colonists capture the Louisbourg Fort? | King George's War |
| What was the first tax George Grenville helped passed through Parliament? | Revenue Act of 1764, or the Sugar Act |
| What was the committee of correspondence? | A communication of grievances sent throughout Massachusetts by John Adams. |
| What was the purpose of the Coercive Acts? | To halt rebellious planning in the colonies after the Boston Tea Party. |
| In the Battle of Saratoga, who accepted teh surrender of British General Burgoyne? | Horatio Gates |
| Who was able to cut off the strength of General Cornwallis in South Carolina? | General Nathanael Greene |
| What was republicanism? | To Samuel Adams - more than a government. Way of Life, Core Idelogy, poltical culture and commitment to liberty and equality |
| What were the major components of the Articles of Confederation? | Single Legislature - voted by state legislature No executive branch No taxation powers |
| Who established the New Jersey Plan in the Constitutional Convention? | William Paterson |
| Where does the Constitution mention the powers of the states? | 10th Amendment |
| How did Alexander Hamilton's view of human nature affect his view of democracies? | He feared democratic excess, or majority rule, because his view of human nature was negative. |
| What did Jefferson think about the Whiskey Rebellion? | He thought Hamilton used it to show the army's power to intimidate Republicans. |
| What did Washington warn against in his Farewell Address? | Political Factions Foreign Entanglements |
| How did the High Federalists respond to the XYZ Affair? | Build-up the Military Fortify Harbors Used to limit political opposition |
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