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What is the idea that the colonies existed solely for the good of their Mother Country?
mercantilism
Who was the first modern European explorer to set foot on the mainland of North America?
What land purchase doubled the size of America? and from what country did they buy it from?
Louisiana Purchase; France
Francis Cabot Lowell
Battle of San Jacinto
Which act required colonist to furnish British soldiers with certain supplies and living quarters?
Quartering Act
What colony did John Winthrop describe as "a city upon a hilltop"
Massachusetts Bay
What was the largest wagon train ever to go West?
Great Migration
What was the most widely used textbook in colonial America?
New England Primer
Battle in which Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett die?
What vehicle was used to transport Jonathan Goble's wife?
rickshaw
What was the first permanent English colony founded in the New World?
Jamestown
In what city did wagon trains heading West usually start?
Independence, Missouri
Who invented the steel plow?
John Deere
Battle of Veracruz
What colony did the Pilgrims establish?
Plymouth
The pioneer wagons heading West were called?
prairie schooners
Texas
What colony was founded as a refuge for debtor prisoners to work and pay off their debt?
Georgia