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| Why did Columbus and other early explorers search for a direct, all water rt to Asia? |
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| To be able to trade items such as spices faster, to make profit faster (land rt took about 3 yrs) |
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| Why is Columbus' voyage of discovery more celebrated than that of Leif Erickson? |
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| What was Prince Henry the Navigator known for? |
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| Why did Columbus believe he had landed in China when he had actually laned in the Indies? |
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| What is the Treaty of Tordesillas? |
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| What was the European attitude toward the American Indians? |
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| What was the Indians relationship like with the natural world? |
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| What were the problems btwn the American Indians and Europeans? |
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| How were the early English colonies financed? |
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| What was the significance of the Mayflower Contract? |
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| Who established the colony at Plymouth? |
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| Why did the Pilgrims leave England? |
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| to have religious freedom |
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| What were the characteristics of the Massechusettes Bay colony? |
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| Who and why was the colony of Rhode Island founded? |
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| How did a proprieter in a proprietary colony make money? |
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| How did New York become an English colony? |
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| How did colonists become Americans rather than merely transplanted Europeans? |
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| What were indentured servants? |
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| What was the importance of tobacco to Virginia? |
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| What was Bacon's Rebellion? |
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| What was Indigo in South Carolina? |
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| Describe rich plantations and slavery. |
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| Describe education in the South. |
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| Who was James Oglethorpe and what relation did he have with the colony of Georgia? |
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| Why was Georgia established as a colony? |
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| Who was John Peter Zenger? |
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| Describe the Salem Witch Trial. |
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