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What event was considered an act of civil disobedience where colonist dumped British imported tea into the Boston harbor? 

The Boston Tea Party

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William Penn was a ________, a member of a small Protestant sect that taught that all people are equal

Quaker

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This marked the end of French power in North America. 

Treaty of Paris

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What were the names of the colonists that favored war against Britain?

Patriots

100

What is the name for mapmakers who produced more accurate maps and sea charts?

cartographers

200

_________ got their name because they kept their muskets at hand and were prepared to fight at a minute's notice? 

Minutemen

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What were the four middle colonies?

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.

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What confrontation occurred when British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.

Boston Massacre
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What was the name of American colonists who remained loyal to Britain?

Loyalists

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The Columbian Exchange was the mixing of cultures that began with the voyages of Columbus. What were three things that resulted from the Columbian Exchange? 

New products and ideas, diseases, and the growth of slavery

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What marked the end of French power in North America. By its terms, Britain gained Canada and all French lands east of the Mississippi River, except for New Orleans?

The Treaty of Paris

300

What were the five southern colonies?

Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia

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What was the purpose of the committees of correspondence?

To keep other colonies updated on the events that were occurring in Boston.  

300

What is the name of the introduction of the Declaration of Independence? 

Preamble

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What was an economic policy that held the nation's wealth and was measured by its supply of gold and silver? 

Mercantilism

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What is an economic system in which people put money, or capital, into a business in order to make a profit. 

Capitalism

400

Thinkers that believed that all problems could be solved by human reason considered themselves ______. 

Enlightened

400

What act imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London?

The Stamp Act

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What are the three main parts of the Declaration of Independence? 

Unalienable Human Rights, Colonial Grievances, and Independence

400

What period in European history resulted in many new discoveries in art, medicine, and science? 

the Renaissance

500

The House of Burgesses marked the start of ________ a political system in which voters elect others to make laws. 

Representative government

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Montesquieu suggested that government should be divided into three branches of government. What are the three branches of government? 

Legislative, judicial, and executive 

500

What saying did the colonists use in order to show that the Stamp Act taxes were unjust and unnecessary?

"No taxation without representation!"

500

What two countries helped lead America toward victory in the American Revolution? 

Spain and France

500

King James I of England granted a group of investors, known as the Virginia Company, a charter to set up a colony in North America. The settlers started the ___________ in Virginia. 

Jamestown Colony

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