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Social Studies
11th Grade
01/20/2012

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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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Crusades
Term
What European movement resulted in new art, technology, and a return to classical thought?
Definition
Rennaissance
Term
What terms are used to describe the exchange of goods between Europe and the Americas after Columbus's discovery?
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Columbian
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What European movement resulted in the rise of the protestant Religion?
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Reformation
Term
What were the Spanish explorers called who searched for "God, gold, and glory"?
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Conquistadors
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What was the name of the firt American settlement in 1492 by Europeans?
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St. Augustine
Term
What was first succesful English settlement in the New World (1607)?
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Jamestown
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What was the legislature of the Virginia colony called(the first representative goverment in the New World)?
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House of Burgesses
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What was the main reason for the American colonies protestation against British rule?
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Taxation
Term
What war put the English into debt and forced them to tax and closely monitor the troops in Boston?
Definition
French and Indian War
Term
What1760's acts were enforced by the English that were already in place?
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Navigation Acts
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What occured in 1770 that resulted in 5 colonists being shot and killed by British troops in Boston?
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Boston Massacre
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In 1773 Bostonians protested the Tea Act by staging what famous event?
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Boston Tea Party
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The first skirmishes of the Revolutionary War occured in what two towns?
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Lexington and Concord
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