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| Which colonies were known as the "bread colonies" because they produced an abundance of grain? |
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| The title of who's most famous sermon was "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?" |
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| What was sparsely populated land on the edge of a settlement called? |
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| Where was the great revival of the 1700s called the Great Awakening? |
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| Which king of England in 1760 determined to bring the colonists into subjection? |
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| What is another name for the Seven Years' War? |
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| Which colonies were poorly suited for agriculture due to long winters, a short growing season, and rocky terrain? |
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| What was the idea that the colonies should supply English factories with raw materials and then buy goods they produced? |
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| Who was a renowned Boston silversmith? |
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| Who encouraged the founding of public libraries? |
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| Who conducted singing schools? |
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| Who was the astronomer who built an all-wood clock? |
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| Who helped to introduce the smallpox vaccine? |
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| What act taxed legal documents? |
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| What act made it legal to force colonists to supply housing for British soldiers? |
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| What made all previous land grants null and void? |
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| What said that the colonies were "subordinate" to England? |
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| What barred settlements in all lands west of the Appalachians? |
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| What period comprised the colonial era? |
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| the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to the outbreak of the American War for Independence in 1775 |
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| What religious group wrote the first classical music to be composed in America? |
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| a board with printed Scripture and the alphabet |
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| Was the College of William and Mary founded by a religious denomination? |
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| Was the Philadelphia Academy founded by a religious denomination? |
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| Was the Columbia University founded by a religious denomination? |
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| Was Rutgers University founded by a religious denomination? |
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| What Englishman was a leader in America's Great Awakening? |
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| What did the French rename the English fort they captured at the beginning of the French and Indian War? |
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| What general led the British troops in the French and Indian War? |
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What does it mean to fight "like an Indian"?
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| Using rocks and trees for cover during a fight |
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| What happened on the Plains of Abraham in the final battle of the French and Indian War? |
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| The British met the French and defeated them |
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| Who organized the Methodis denomination in Engand? |
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| Who preached to crowds of up to 20,000 people? |
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| Who was the best-known missionary to the Indians? |
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| Who was colonial America's foremost theologian? |
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| What natural pass in the Appalachian Mountains allowed settlers to travel west? |
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| What was the most widely used textbook in colonial America? |
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| What was the term for boys who were placed under a craftsman to learn a trade? |
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| What was the name of Ben Franklin's famous publication containing meteorological and astronomical information, proverbs, sound advice, and good humor? |
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| What title was given to the chief executive officer of a colony? |
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| What was the name of the local militia unit led by George Washington? |
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| What war helped prepa the colonists for the War for Independence by uniting them in defense of their homes and families? |
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| What type of craftsman shod horses and forged tools, farm implements, and wagon parts? |
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