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100
Who were the first people to cross the Bering Land bridge?
The Paleo-Indians
100
What was the first colony founded in Virginia?
Jamestown
100
who were the red coats and the blue coats
red coats were british and blue coats were patriots
100
what was womens suffrage
the right for women to vote
100
can someone be faced with double jeopardy
no
200
Who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe?
Ferdinand Magellan
200
Who were the pilgrims and who were the puritans?
Pilgrims were people who escaped England to avoid execution; Puritans were people who wanted to reform the Anglican church from its catholic practices
200
was there fighting at valley forge
no
200
what were the 3 branches of government, what did each branch do
legislative, judicial, executive: legislative passed laws, executive enforced them, and judicial checked them
200
what does it mean to veto something
to cancel it
300
What was the North west passage?
It let people sail from the atlantic to the pacific
300
What were slave codes?
Laws that control slaves
300
who wrote common sense and what was it about
Thomas Paine, a book that urged seperation from great britain
300
what is a tariff
taxes on import and export items
300
what is a duty of a u.s citizen
pay taxes, elect officials, defend the nation, and have to assist jury duty
400
Which city did Hernan Cortes conquer?
Tenochtitlan
400
What were staple crops in the middle colonies?
wheat barley and oats
400
what was the 'shot heard round the world?'
a shot that twas fired by someone in the battlefield, no one knows who it was.
400
what is the new jersey and virginia plan
new jersey wanted equal number of votes and virginia wanted votes based on population
400
what is a pardon
forgiveness of a crime
500
What is the Iroquois League?
A political confederation started by the Native Americans
500
what is the toleration act of 1649
made it a crime to restrict the religious rights of Christians
500
name the battles in order.
lexington, bunker hill, trenton, seratoga, and york town
500
what is federalism, and who started the federalist papers
a system of shared power between state and government; hamilton, jay, and madison
500
what are the types of u.s citizen
native born and naturalized
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