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| What are the three major physical features of Anglo America |
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| Rocky Mountains, Mississippi River, Application Mountains |
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| What are the two major Climate Regions of Anglo America |
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| If you live in the east you have rain and humidity if you live in the west you get dry areas |
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what was the first attraction to America
what were the two major resources in America |
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Land
Resources that produce energy
Resources such a metallic Ors to make needs, Coal, Oil, Silver, Copper, Gold |
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who where the First Americans
How did they get to America
How many of them were there
how many languages did they speak |
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Asian Migration American Indian
They walked to America
Estimated 5 million people
spoke 600 different languages |
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| Why were the Cherokee considered more advanced than most Native Americans |
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| They had an alphabet, and grew crops, |
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| Who were the First Europeans to make contact with Anglo America? |
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| Vikings, Scandinavians,the first Europeans to settle in America, they did not write anything down archeological discovery in 1960 showed that in around 1010 first Viking/ Scandinavian settlement. |
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| What some things the Europeans introduce to the Native Americans |
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| Technology, such as weapons, and the domestication of the Horse |
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| Official European Discovery was when and by who |
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| 1492, Columbus, looking for a way to Asia, Columbus took 4 trips to America trying to prove he was in Asia. He died thinking he was in Asia. |
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| What was the European Invasion |
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| When the English came into America and began to dominate in population. America became a extension of Europe. The key became poseition |
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| Who were the principle 4 nations players in Anglo America were the |
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| Spanish, french, English, and the dutch, English tends to dominate the rest |
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| Why did the Spanish com to America |
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| First European Settlement in Anglo America |
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| St. Augustine Florida was established in 1500 by the Spanish |
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| Where was was the The second Settlement of the European invasion |
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| where was the third Settlement during the European Invasion |
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| in the 1700s Jamestown Va |
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| Why did the English leave England |
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| They did not like the way the government was run or their neighbors. so the moved to American to gain cheap land. |
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| what area becomes the core of English America |
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| New England,farming was marginal, made living by building ships, were fishers, becomes industrial core, were puritans, family orientated, hard workers, by 1630 about 20-25 thousand Englishmen in New England |
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| where were the middle colonies |
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| New york, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania |
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| who was William Penn what was his influence |
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| encouraged other non EnglishWilliam Pen encouraged non English settlers, German, became Pennsylvania Dutch. 1/3 of the people were German, first German town called Germantown, Germans introduced bank barn (two stories) |
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When was Philly founded
when was German founded |
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Philly was found in 1682
German town was founded 1683 |
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| Why did the dutch loose New York |
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| English cease New York from the Dutch in war 1660, the king gave it to his brother who was the duke York, New York use to be New Amsterdam, |
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| Hudson was an explorer who who sailed up Hudson and claimed it for the Netherlands |
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moved from Scotland to Ireland, Self reliant independent first Americans to not listen to the authority of the king
250,000 settled in America |
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| weather is warmer, longer growing season (continues frost free days) cash crops |
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| What was the first cash crop |
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| Tobacco was the first major cash crop, Cotton becomes another major cash crop first commercial farms in America. Takes a lot of Manuel labor |
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| What did cash crops bring to America |
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| Takes a lot of Manuel labor, brought African slaves, Spanish brought slaves first Europeans adopted the trend, 30 to 40 million Africans were forced to come to America, In the south aprx 40 percent of the population were slaves, |
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| Large land that produces one crop for cash |
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| how much of the population were African slaves during the American revolution |
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| What is the Manifest Destiny |
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| Its our destiny to go coast to coast because God told us to. |
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| 628,000 acres, Mississippi River purchase, for 3 cents and acre, sold by napoleon,from new Orleans to the cost |
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| The first north west territory we developed "the big ten" |
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| Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, |
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| when Americans are sent out to settle on land what rights did they have |
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| they are given equal rights and allow them to be in the union |
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| Texas- Jim Bowie, a smuggler who smuggled slaves, |
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| When did America gain Alaska |
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| 1867 Alaska, Gold in Alaska, Russians sold Alaska to Americans |
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| Mexican Cession- succeeded 1848 territory to Americans, Texas (not part of Mexican cession), New Mexico, Nevada, California, Arizona, Colorado, resources diamonds, Gold, Oil, many resources |
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| Made a deal with a British for Oregon, Split Oregon in half southern half became , Idaho, Washington, state of Oregon, became American territory was sold by English became, |
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| Significance of the frontier |
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| the agent of change transforms European into an America |
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| Historian who wrote the address Significant of the Frontier |
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| Americans are moving west, for resources |
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| Obstacles of the frontier |
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| work through the people who already live in the territories |
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| the frontier "Friction of distance" |
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| CA is far away form NY, then the railroad bridged the gap |
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| supported the king in American revolution 80,000 moved to Canada in the north Nova Scotia, more Europeans in Canada than French |
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| french settled in Quebec lower Canada, English settled in Nova Scotia upper Canada, |
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| Population Growth during the 1850's |
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| 300,000 immigrants a year |
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| Geographer who studied population, mostly immigration, 1607-1775 most who come to American are English decent then 1820- 1870 English, Irish, german they were Catholic |
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