New World Rising Part 1
The American Revolution - Oversimplified (Part 1)
The American Revolution - Oversimplified (Part 2)
In the Beginning—Englishmen in the New World
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The Florentine Codex was meant to convert indigenous people to this religion.
What is Christianity?
100
In 1492, this European explorer accidentally landed in the Americas after he was sent by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to find a sea route to India.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
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a political protest on December 16, 1773, when American colonists, disguised as Native Americans, dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
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This group of people were a persistent presence in colonial America, particularly during their Golden Age from the 1650s to the 1730s. They took advantage of England's closed trade into America by cutting off ships in the Caribbean.
Who are pirates?
200
U.S. Soldiers captured and shot these belongings of the Comanche.
What are horses?
200
This future first president of the United States led troops in the Seven Years' War.
Who is Lt. Colonel George Washington?
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This deadly confrontation on March 5, 1770, ended with British soldiers firing into a hostile Boston crowd, killing five colonists and wounding six more.
What is the Boston Massacre?
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The American colonies were expected to export food and basic commodities to the mother country and their sister colonies. In return, the colonies received this from the English.
What is military protection?
300
The video argues that Europeans brought this, which was a more dangerous weapon than guns and horses.
What is Disease? (Smallpox, influenza, bubonic plague, malaria, etc.)
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The Seven Years' War was fought between these two European powers.
Who are Great Britain and France?
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The First Continental Congress was a convention held from September 5 to October 26, 1774, where delegates from twelve of the thirteen American colonies met to respond to increased British aggression and the Intolerable Acts in this U.S. city.
What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
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For the English, private investors regularly formed a company to launch an American colony because the colonies were seen as this.
What is a business venture?
400
The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band "reignited" a tradition by fixing the forest by burning it in this geographical location.
What is Northern California? (Monterey Bay)
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Columbus and his crew were not the first Europeans to land in the Americas. This Viking explorer landed in the Americas in the 11th Century (500 years before Columbus).
Who is Leif Erikson?
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This ruler was King of England at the start of the American Revolution.
Who is King George III?
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By 1763, these four European powers claimed land in North America.
Who are England, Spain, France, and Russia?
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The Comanche were forced onto this Reservation.
What is Fort Sill?
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This British law that levied a direct tax on all paper documents and playing cards in the American colonies to help pay for the cost of British troops stationed there after the French and Indian War.
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?
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This Act was a series of British parliamentary measures imposing taxes on American colonies, including glass, lead, paint, paper, oil, and tea, to generate revenue for governing the colonies and pay colonial officials.
What are the 1767 Townshend Acts?
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The rulers of England and other European nations believed that the colonies in the New World existed to strengthen the “mother country.” England pursued a policy known as this, which determined its economic and political relations with the American colonists.
What is Mercantilism?