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What deadly effects did the Columbian Exchange have in the Americas?
Diseases killed millions of Native Americans.
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas and which two countries did it impact?
Divided land between Spain and Portugal.
What are unalienable rights from the Declaration of Independence?
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
What was “The Shot Heard ‘Round the World?”
First shots of the Revolution.
Who was responsible for cultivation of tobacco in Jamestown?
John Rolfe
. What was the Great Awakening?
Religious revival movement.
What did Thomas Paine say in his pamphlet Common Sense?
Supported independence from Britain.
What battle is considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War? The French
Saratoga.
What is the economic theory of mercantilism?
Colonies existed to benefit the mother country.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
Banned settlement west of Appalachians.
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
How was the Mayflower Compact an important step toward representative government?
It created self-government.
The Boston Massacre in March,1770 marked the peak of colonial resistance to ______ Act and the presence of British troops.
Townshend Act.
Why was the Stamp Act of 1765 upsetting to the colonists?
Taxed colonists without representation.
What is the difference between the Pilgrims and Puritans?
Pilgrims separated; Puritans wanted reform.
According to the Declaration of Independence, if a government does not protect the basic rights of the people it governs, what do the people have the right to do?
Overthrow or change the government.
.What was Shays’ Rebellion?
Farmer rebellion over taxes and debt.