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In 1773, demonstrators boarded the ships and threw chests of tea into the harbour. What is this event known as?
The Boston Tea Party
Which king sought to divorce Catherine of Aragon, his wife, because of her inability to provide a male heir?
King Henry VIII
The Puritan work ethic focused on the qualities of _______, ________ & ________.
Diligence, Discipline, and Frugality
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The colonies refused to pay taxes to the British Crown and rallied behind what slogan?
No taxation without representation
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___________, seeking religious freedom, arrived on the Mayflower in 1620 and established Plymouth Colony
The Pilgrims
_________, was an intellectual and cultural movement in the 18th century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith.
The Enlightenment
__________ is the belief in a God who created but has no continuing involvement in the world and the events within it.
Deism
_________ aimed to establish a direct trade route to India to access valuable spices and other precious resources but arrived in the region now known as the West Indies.
Christopher Columbus
A series of taxes were imposed on the American colonies, such as the Sugar Act (1764), the Stamp Act (1765), and the Townshend Acts (1767) due to the war between Britain and France. Name the war.
The Seven Years' War
______________ acquired their name from the frequency at which people read their books around the fire at home.
The Fireside Poets
Abraham Lincoln, in 1863, issued the _________________ declaring enslaved individuals in Confederate territory free from slavery.
The Emancipation Proclamation
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Who is considered as the first American Poet?
William Cullen Bryant
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Who led the north (the Union) against their fight with the south (the Confederacy) during the American Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
Who brought the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment to America?
Benjamin Franklin
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The book follows the journey of the protagonist, Christian, from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City.
The Pilgrim's Progress
A larger wave of Puritan migration occurred in the 1630s. They founded the ____________ Colony.
Massachusetts Bay Colony
__________ promotes the idea that knowledge comes from experience and observation of the world.
Empiricism
Experiments and Observations on Electricity in 1751 talked about what?
Observations that lightning strikes tended to hit metal objects and that lightning could be directed with metal objects during a storm.
One of the main problems of American English during the 18th century was ______________.
Lack of Linguistic Standardization
__________ is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 calling for independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
Common Sense
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In this book, the author famously described the Puritan colony as a "City upon a Hill".
A Model of Christian Charity
The work is a blend of biography, history, and theology, portraying New England as a chosen land with a divine mission.
Magnalia Christi Americana
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________________ laid the foundation for self-governance among the Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower in 1620.
The Mayflower Compact
___________ the belief that events in life are decided in advance by God or by fate and cannot be changed
Predestination