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| Who paid Christopher Columbus to sale to the Indies? |
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| King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain |
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| Who was blown off course and landed in Portugal? |
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| Who was the first to see the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River? |
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| Who started the Protestant Reformation? |
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| After whom are the Americas named? |
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| Who discovered much of Canada and had a bay and a river named after him? |
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| An Islamic place of worship |
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| Who was the governor of the Plymouth colony? |
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| When did the first slaves and women arrive in America? |
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| What Indian woman married John Rolfe? |
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| What was the big cash crop in the colonies? |
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| What people group was known as "A society of friends"? |
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| Why did the New England population grow so rapidly? |
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| Immigration, the slave trade, colonial women married young and had lots of babies |
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| What was the Middle Passage? |
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| The main route for the slave trade |
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| What was the cash crop of the middle colonies? |
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| To what colony did 100,000 German immigrants move? |
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| What were the three cash crops of the Southern colonies? |
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| What people groups where against slavery? |
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| Who signed the English Bill of Rights? |
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| Queen Mary and King William |
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| What were the three types of colonial government? |
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| Charter, Royal, Proprietary |
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| What people groups were not granted voting rights in colonial America? |
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| Women, slaves, indentured servants, Landless people |
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| What movement were Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield involved in? |
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| Name the five acts that the British imposed upon the Americans. |
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| Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Declaratory, Townshend Acts, Coercive Acts |
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| Which of the tax acts were protested by the Sons of Liberty? |
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| Protest by refusing to buy goods from a certain company or country |
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| What act was repealed(removed) and when was it repealed |
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| The stamp act in March, 1766 |
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| When was the Boston Massacre? |
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| He was a man killed in the boston massacre |
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| When was the Boston Tea Party? |
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| When did the First Continental Congress meet? |
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| Name three members of the First Continental Congress? |
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| Any three from John Adams, John Jay, Richard Lee, Patrick Henry, and George Washington |
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| What was the nick-name for the New England militia |
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| What three men rode out from Boston on April 19, 1775 to warn that the British were coming? |
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| What was the first battle of the war? |
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| Battle at Lexington and Concord |
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| Who devised the planned to capture Ticonderoga, but was not credited with the victory? |
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| Why did the Americans lose the Battle of Bunker(Breeds) Hill? |
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| They ran out of ammunition |
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| When did the Second Continental congress meet? |
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| Who was chosen as commander of the Continental Army? |
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| Who wrote "Common Sense"? |
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| How many men signed the declaration? |
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| Who wrote the declaration? |
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| Someone who is loyal to Britain |
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| What woman pretended to be a man and enlisted in the army? |
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| Who was the British commander? |
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| How did Washington escape from the Battle of Long Island? |
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| He crossed the river in the middle of the night |
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| Who said "I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country? |
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| Who was a dutch school teacher turned spy? |
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| Who was a dutch school teacher turned spy? |
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| Where did the American army stay during a famously difficult winter? |
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| Who were Lemuel Hayes and Peter Salem? |
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| What two victories saved the revolution? |
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| Who is the most famous traitor in U.S. History? |
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| When did General Burgoyne surrender? |
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| What two European countries allied with the Americans? |
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| Who was Bernardo de Galvez? |
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| The Spanish governor of Louisiana |
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| Privately owned merchant ships |
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| An American naval officer |
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