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A.P. US History
Colonial Period 1607-1763
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04/05/2005

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What was the reason for Columbus' journey to the Americas?
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To find a passage tot he orient
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What was so favorable about a shorter passage to the orient for Eourpean traders?
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It avoided the cost of the slki road, it eliminated the middle men and lowered the shiping cost
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Who financed Colombus' Voage?
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King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of spain
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Define the treaty of Tordesillas, and who it was writen by.
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It was writen by the pope and it split territories between Spain and Portugal
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Define: Conquistadores
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Spanish army leaders/explores to America
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What did the Navtive's of central and shouth America think of the Spanish explores when they first saw them?
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they thought they were gods and they showd them much love and generocity
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Define: Nomads
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ppl. who travled in small groups and live by hunting and fishing, often fallowing their food
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Name some European diseases that were new to the indian they incountered
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small pox, meales
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What did the Eourpeans use to kill many native americans (leading cause of death)? Gunpower? Steel? Disease?
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Disease
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Who was Jhon Cabot? (1497)
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An english man who explored the Newfoundland and northeast coast of Noth America
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Who was Jacques Cartier? (1534)
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a french man who explored the St. Lawrance River up to Montreal
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Which eourpean power was stringest in the 1500's?
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Spain
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Define: Indulgences
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Payment to the church that were suposed to insure you place in heaven...big scandal
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Who lead the Protestant reformation of the 1600's?
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Martian Luther and Jhon Calvin
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WHat country became protestant?
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England
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what happened to the status of commerical classes durning the protestant reformation?
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they rose to posistions of influance
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Who was a sea caption sponcered by Queen Beth I and sailed around the world and pirated the spanish, he was very successful durnign the spanish armada?
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Sir. Fanccis Drake
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who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
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Tried and failed twice to establish a successful colony, but he gained land and called it virgina
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Name the 2 companies to recive a grant to settle Virgina, and who granted them this grant?
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The london Company and teh Plymoth Company
England by JamesI
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Where was the London Company's territory in Virgina? and why did their colony fail?
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south Virgina
They stressed finding gold, slki raising and such futile labors
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What company possesed Jamestown?
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The london Company
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WHo was Cpt. John Smith?
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He lived in virgina and became a good forger and indian trader, he was essentail in Jamestown's success.
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How did Ctp. John Smith save Jamestown?
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he pleaded with officales in London and convinced them that they need to send over people who were used to working with their hands and who could farma nd build or else jamestown would fall
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Why did Virgina become a royal colony in 1624?
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becaue it was doing so poorly
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explain the columbian exchange
Definition
the creation of a new "american culture"
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it was year does slavery begin in Nother America int eh coloy's?
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1619
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What was a result of the Stono Rebellion?
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Strenthed slave laws, slavery became harsher inorder to prevent another rebellion
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where was the 1st sgins of democracy durning hte colonial peroid?
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in the midde colonies, they had popularity elected rrepresentitive assemblies
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