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11/17/2014

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Term
History is not a colection of facts, instead history is what?
Definition
Analysis of the facts
Term
What are three things that create limits to an effective study of history
Definition

Access

Reliablility

Bias

Term
What is the political belief that kings recieve their authority from god not from their subjects?
Definition
Devine right of kings
Term
What Political belief that people agreed to give up some of their natrual freedom to the gov. in exchange for order and protection
Definition
Social contract
Term
What is the document that is believed to be the first in england in which kings agreed to certain limits to his powers?
Definition
Magna carta
Term
What law was passed by parliment that limited the power of the king and guarenteed most Certain rights?
Definition
English bill of rights
Term
What is the most improtant result for the americas concerning fall of constantinople?
Definition
Lost acess to trade goods
Term

What was the most important factor that led to European

 

exploration of the world?

Definition

A desire to find new trade routes

 

for pepper and other spices.

Term

What was one of the most important factors encouraging 

 

King Ferdinand’s financing of Columbus’ voyage west?

Definition

Portugal already controlled the

 

southern seas routes.

Term

If Columbus did not discover the Americas, why were his

 

voyages important?

Definition

He began the European

 

colonization of the Americas.

Term

What do we call the exchange of goods, ideas, people, and 

 

culture between the Eastern Hemisphere (Europe, Africa, 

 

and Asia) and the Western Hemisphere (the Americas)?

Definition
Columbian Exchange
Term

What are the estimates for the number of Native Americans 

 

who died because of disease?

Definition
Twenty to Sixty Million
Term

What two crops, introduced to Europe from the Americas,

 

were vital to feeding Europeans making them healthier and 

 

leading to a population explosion?

Definition
Corn and potatoes
Term

What animal, reintroduced to the Americas, had the biggest

 

positive and negative effects on these continents?

Definition
The horse
Term

What is the most significant factor changing slavery in the 

 

New World?

Definition

The expansion of high labor

 

cash crops.

Term

The trip transporting Africans to the Americas as slaves 

 

was called what?

Definition
The Middle Passage
Term

As the number of slaves increased in the American

 

colonies, colonial governments began passing laws to help 

 

prevent slave rebellions, what were the laws called?

Definition
Slave Codes
Term

What is the first successful English settlement in the 

 

English colonies?

Definition
Jamestown
Term
Where were slaves first brought to the English colonies?
Definition
Jamestown
Term

What crop helped Jamestown and Virginia become 

 

successful and wealthy?

Definition
Tobacco
Term

What were the three most economically significant 

 

products in the Southern Colonies?

Definition
Tobacco, Rice, Indigo
Term

What was the term for an individual who agreed to work 

 

for someone for a number of years in exchange for passage 

 

to the Americas?

Definition
Indentured Servant
Term

What was the primary (most important) reason for the

 

founding of the New England colonies?

Definition
Religious Reasons
Term

An individual who believed that the Church of England 

 

was so corrupt that a person had to separate from it to 

 

become a true Christian was called a what?

Definition
Separatists
Term

An individual who wanted to remove from the Church of 

 

England its “corrupt” (Catholic) practices was called a 

 

what?

Definition
Puritan
Term

Which colony was set up by Roger Williams because he

 

disagreed with the leaders of Massachusetts concerning 

 

forced church attendance and church taxes?

Definition
Rhode Island
Term

The most prominent type of farming in New England, 

 

where a family grows enough food to feed themselves is 

 

called?

Definition
27. Subsistence
Term
Why did Puritans encourage education for its entire people?
Definition
To be able to read the Bible
Term

Who was the woman that Puritan leaders exiled from 

 

Massachusetts because she claimed she could understand 

 

God’s truth and the Bible without church leaders?

Definition
Anne Hutchinson
Term

What are four significant products produced or exported

 

from New England?

Definition
Rum, Timber, Ships, Iron
Term

What is the term for the trade that includes: A) rum and

 

iron from New England to Africa for slaves B) the slaves 

 

for sugar in the Caribbean C) Sugar for rum and iron in 

 

New England?

Definition
Triangle Trade
Term

What religious group believed that all people were equal in

 

the sight of God and that one’s religious experiences were 

 

purely individual?

Definition
Quakers
Term

What colony was created by a wealthy English Quaker as 

 

an experiment to see if various religions could live together 

 

in one society?

Definition
Pennsylvania
Term

Why did the Middle Colonies have so many skilled 

 

craftsmen like blacksmiths, gunsmiths, watchmakers and 

 

coopers?

Definition

The Middle Colonies included

 

religious toleration.

Term

What colonies were the first slave society in the thirteen 

 

colonies?

Definition
The Carolinas
Term

What colony started as a place where debtors could come 

 

and work their debt off as indentured servants and to start a 

 

new life in the Americas?

Definition
Georgia
Term

What was the name the Middle Colonies were referred to as 

 

because it supplied much of the world with grains?

Definition
Breadbasket colonies
Term

What was the term for the English policy to (legally) leave 

 

the colonies alone to develop on their own?

Definition
Solutary neglect
Term

What is the term that means colonies are created for the 

 

mother country to use their natural resources and products 

 

to gain wealth?

Definition
Merchantislism
Term

What were the laws passed by Parliament meant to assure 

 

that England received some profit from the products

 

produced in the colonies?

Definition
Navigation acts
Term
What sparked the French and Indian War?
Definition

Conflict in the Ohio River

 

Valley

Term

What was the most important result of the French defeat at

 

Quebec, leading to their defeat in the French and Indian 

 

War?

Definition

The French lose power and

 

most their colonies in the Americas

Term

Why did the British begin raising taxes on British citizens 

 

in both England and the 13 colonies?

Definition

To pay for the debt from the

 

French and Indian War.

Term

What legal declaration prohibited colonists from moving 

 

west across the Appalachians and settle there?

Definition
Proclamation of 1763
Term

To help pay the cost of the soldiers stationed in the colonies 

 

to enforce the Proclamation and other British laws, the 

 

British passed the Quartering Act requiring what?

Definition

Colonists supply a soldier a

 

bed, blanket, candle and a meal a 

 

day.

Term

What was the term for a document that allowed officials to 

 

search homes, businesses, and ships to assure products 

 

were not being smuggled to avoid taxes?

Definition
Writs of Assistance
Term

What was considered the first direct and visible tax on the

 

colonies?

Definition
The Stamp Tax
Term

What is the term for the historical event in which a crowd 

 

in Boston and British soldiers clashed that resulted in the 

 

death for 5 Bostonians?

Definition
Boston massacre
Term
Why were colonists so upset about the Tea Act?
Definition

The law forced colonial tea

 

distributors out of business.

Term

What did colonists call the laws passed by Parliament as a 

 

reaction to the Boston Tea Party?

Definition
The Intolerable Acts
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