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| How did the first people come to America? |
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| Across a land bridge from Asia |
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| 3 items or things Columbus and Europeans introduced to North America? |
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| Disease, horses, coffee beans |
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| 3 items or things Columbus brought back from North America? |
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| What was Columbus looking for when he discovered the New World? |
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| A water route to Asia for trade |
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| A German Priest who wrote the 95 thesis |
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| Why does England part ways with the Catholic Church? |
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| King Henry VIII wanted a divorce but the Pope wouldn't allow it |
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| Who is the founder of Pennsylvania? What was the group of people he belonged to called? |
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| The North's economy was based primarily on what? |
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| The South's economy was based primarily on what? |
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| What kind of labor did the South use? How did the Southern plantation owners justify this type of treatment of people? |
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| Slave labor; they said slaves were not people, but they were property |
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| What was the most profitable cash crop in the South during the colonial era? |
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| The Middle Colonies' economy was based primarily on what? |
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| What caused the French and Indian War? |
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| Both France and Britain wanted the Ohio River Valley |
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| Where were most battles of the French and Indian War fought? |
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| The Ohio River Valley or Western Pennsylvania |
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| Before Pittsburgh was a city, it was a? It was called? |
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| What treaty ended the French and Indian War? |
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| What did the Proclamation of 1763 state? |
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| British colonists could not settle West of the Appalachian Mountains |
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| What future American president and war hero began his long career during the French and Indian War? |
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| What important detail about the crowd was left out of the engraving of the Boston Massacre? |
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| The crowd had bats and sticks and were throwing ice and snowballs |
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| Who created the engraving of the Boston Massacre? |
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| Who was the first person to die in the Boston Massacre? |
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| How did the patriots in the colonies use the Boston Massacre? |
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| As propaganda to rally colonists against the British |
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| 5 major acts/taxes that Britain imposed on the colonists without their consent? |
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| Stamp Act, Declaratory Act, Tea Act, Townshend Act, Intolerable Act |
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| Where was the "shot heard around the world" fired? |
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| Why was Saratoga such and important battle during the Revolutionary War? |
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| The patriot victory at Saratoga convinced the French to become an American ally because the Americans had a chance at winning the war |
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| Who was the very important ally to America in the Revolutionary War? |
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| Where was the last major battle of the Revolutionary War? |
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| Where did the Continental Army spend a long, harsh winter? |
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