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What is a primary source?
A primary source is an ORIGINAL document written at the time an event happened.
What is a secondary source?
A secondary source is an interpretation of a primary source, written by someone AFTER the original event happened
What are some qualities of the Great Awakening? What was it like?
Traveling preachers, emotional services
What was the Stamp Act?
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed
What was a man's job on a small tobacco farm in eighteenth century Virginia?
tobacco planter, kept farm accounts, oversaw work of the slaves, built ans repaired houses, payed taxes, votes, participated in county courts as jurors
What happened to Mary Queen of Scots?
She was killed by Queen Elizabeth because she thought Mary had a plot to take over as Queen of England.
Who founded Pennsylvania?
William Penn
To bring people back to God.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
The Sons of Liberty was a secret organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. It played a major role in most colonies in battling the Stamp Act in 1765.
What was the Quartering Act?
Parliament passes the Quartering Act, outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies. The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies.
Who came to Plymouth?
The Separatists
What was the point of the Enlightenment?
To unite people around the idea of SCIENCE and REASON
What is the name of the living history museum we studied?
Colonial Williamsburg
Where did Patrick Henry perform his famous speech?
St John's church in Richmond!
Who burned the Gaspee ship?
The Sons of Liberty
Who came to Georgia?
Debtors from England (people who owed money)
Which Enlightenment man talked about "life, liberty, and property"?
John Locke
What was the role of women on a small tobacco farm in Virginia in the eighteenth century?
Took care of children, managed household chores, sometimes helped husband with tobacco crops
What was Lexington and Concord?
The first battles of the American Revolution. Where the "shot heard around the world" happened.
What did Britain do as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party?
The Intolerable Acts (or Coercive Acts)
What region was "america's breadbasket"?
The Middle Colonies
What was the starving time at Jamestown?
During the winter of 1610-1611, the colonists were barricaded in the fort by the Native Americans and did not have access to food. They ate rats, other animals, and maybe even humans. They ate whatever they could find.
Who won the French and Indian War?
The British
Who did Patrick Henry perform his speech to? Who were they?
The Virginia Convention
The Virginia Conventions were a series of five meetings that were held after the Boston Tea Party in which representatives from the colonies gathered to decide the future relations between the colonies and England
What was the Boston Massacre?
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
One of the British then fired into the crowd.