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AHSGE Standard I
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Social Studies
11th Grade
01/24/2012

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Crusades
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What European movement resulted in exposure to Middle Eastern and Asian goods (after a failed attempt to take away the holy lands from Muslims)?
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Renaissance
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What European movement resulted in new art, technology, and a return to classical thought?
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Reformation
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What European movement resulted in the rise of the protestant religion?
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Columbian Exchange
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What terms are used to describe the exchange of goods between Europe and the Americas after Columbus's discovery?
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Conquistadors
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What were the Spanish explorers called who searched for "God, gold, and glory"?
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St. Augustine
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What was the name of the first American settlement in 1492 by the Europeans?
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Jamestown
Definition
What was the first successful English settlement in the New World (1607)?
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House of Burgesses
Definition
What was the legislature of the Virginia colony called (the first representative government in the New World)?
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Taxation
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What was the main reason for the American colonies protestation against British rule?
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French and Indian War
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Whaich war put the English into debt and forced them to tax and closely monitor the troops in Boston?
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Navigation Acts
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What 1760's acts were enforced by the English that were already in place?
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Boston Massacre
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Whatoccurred1770 that resulted in 5 colonists being shot and killed by British troops in Boston?
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Boston Tea Party
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In 1773 Bostonians protested the Tea Act by staging what famous event?
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Lexington and Concord
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The first skirmishes of the Revolutionary War occurred in what two towns?
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