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By the 1500s the nuclear family unit was becoming increasingly important among...

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Western Europeans

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THe beginnings of representative government in the European settlements in North America can be found in...

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Virginia, when, in 1619, the company provided for election of an assembly by the inhabitants

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The financing of the Virginia settlement came from

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a joint-stock company

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Which European settlement was fur trading with the Hurons and other tribes the primary economic activity?

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New France

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The great majority of sixteenth-century Europeans were

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peasants

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The primary aim of the explorations of Balboa, Magellan, Verrazano, and Cartier was to find

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a water passage through the Americans and reach Asia

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conquered the Aztecs, built Mexico City

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Hernt Corts

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found the Grand Canyon, plundered the New Mexico pueblos

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Francisco Coronado

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explored the St. Lawrence, made an early French attempt to colonize in North America

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Jacques Cartier

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served as the cross-roads for trade goods from Europe, Africa, and Asia

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Mediterranean Sea

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not a wealthy West African kingdom

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Tenochtitlan

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This society lies in the roots of important parts of modern American culture

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sub-Saharan Africa

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an era of intense artistic and intellectual creativity that looked to the classical age of Greece and Rome

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Renaissance

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This idea placed responsibility on the upper class to act with restraint in Europe

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reciprocity

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Aztec empire at the time of the Spanish arrival is best described as

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the great wealth of the Aztec empire made it a tempting target for the Spanish

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the vast movement of peoples, plants, animals, and microbes between the Old and New Worlds

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Columbian Exchange

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He thought the natives in the Western Hemisphere could be Christianized and become good servants

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Colombus

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Major difference between Separatist and non-Separatist Puritans was over

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advocacy or rejection of a state church

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When people of 16th & 17th century Europe spoke of a "little commonwealth", they were referring to

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the family unit and the role of fathers, mothers, and children within that unit

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The area that had the longest life expectancy and the fastest growing population growth through natural increase was

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New England

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The first colony in English America that had separation of church and state and practiced religious tolerance was

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Rhode Island

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Harvard College was chartered in 1636 primarily to

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train learned Congregational ministers

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A man's right to vote for governor and members of the General Court in seventeenth-century Massachusetts was based on

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church membership

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The greatest extremes of inequality in land ownership in the seventeenth century were found in

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the West Indies

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This was adopted because too few second and third generation Puritans were willing to testify publicly about their conversion experiences

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Half-Way Covenant

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These two colonies had the most ethnically, religiously, and racially diverse population in North America

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New Netherland, New York

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The great majority of those arriving in Virginia between 1630 and 1700 were

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British indentured servants

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Slaves were a majority of the population in which English colony

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Carolina

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the primary purpose of colonies was to provide raw materials for the mother country and to serve as markets for manufactured goods

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doctrine of mercantilism

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this was triggered by Spanish attempts to suppress traditional religion

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Pueblo Revolt of 1680

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placed control of the church in the hands of the male "saints" of the congregation

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New England congregationalism

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most fundamental threat to the Puritan social order

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The market economy

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What was the most important factor in France's ability to hold its vast North American domain against Spanish and English expansion

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Good relations with the Native Americans

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Bacon's Rebellion stemmed from violent attacks of

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poor white settlers against Native Americans

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Which crop changed the British West Indies from a society of independent small landowners utilizing white servant labor to a society of large plantation owners utilizing black slave labor?

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Sugar

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1st successful colony under King James, VA company

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Jamestown

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came from Europe for a chance at a new life but had to pay a price

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indentured servants

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first representative self-government

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House of Burgesses

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conservative

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Puritans

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Both kicked out for having new religious ideas; both in Rhode Island

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Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams

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1670s; major fighting between New England and the Indians for power and land

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King Philip's War

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Demanded American Indians living on treaty-protected land to be killed ro driven out

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Bacon's Rebellion

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education in Massachusetts, development of primary schools

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Old Deluder laws

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government intervenes in economy to increase national wealth

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Mercantilism

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British Colonies vs. New France

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French and Indian War

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During American Revolution, major defeat for American forces

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Battle of Quebec

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tax on all printed products

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Stamp Act

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punish Massachusetts and strengthen British control

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Intolerable/Coercive Acts

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shadow government and organized by Patriot leaders on the eve of the American Revolution

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Committees of Correspondence

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organized by merchants in opposition to Stamp Act

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Non-importation agreements

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colonists needed representation by region not parliament

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Virtual representation

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caused French to side with the British

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Battle of Saratoga

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Black slaves made up a greater proportion of the population than they had in 1700

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Anglo-American colonies

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hoped Georgia would be a place for the rehabilitation of English debtors and a barrier to Spanish expansion northward

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James Oglethorpe

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created by James II to consolidate his hold on the northern colonies and eliminate their colonial assemblies

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Dominion of New England

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required British-American colonists to ship their tobacco, rice, and naval stores to England

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Navigation Acts

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Essential a fraud perpetrated on the Delaware Indians, depriving them of vast amounts of land

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Walking Purchase

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believed in a God who had created a perfect universe and then allowed it to operate according to natural laws

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deists

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Both the Proclomation of 1763 and the Wuebec Act of 1774

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interfered with colonial claims to western lands

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was not implemented because of opposition by colonial legislatures, but it set a precedent for future plans to unite the British mainland colonies

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Albany Plan of Union

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Primary purpose of the Committees of Correspondance

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link the colonies together

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Thomas Jefferson expresses the conflict between the colonies and England in universal terms through this

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Declaration of Independence

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