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I Can - Extra Credit
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Social Studies
11th Grade
08/24/2015

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When was Virginia founded?
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1607
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Who founded Georgia?
Definition
James E. Oglethorpe
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When did the Carolina's split?
Definition
1729
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Why was Maryland founded?
Definition
To give the Catholics a place of religious freedom.
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Why was New Jersey founded?
Definition
To make the King's friends happy.
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Which state was a buffer between the Spanish and South Carolinia
Definition
Georgia
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What crop saved the Virginia Colony?
Definition
Tobacco/ Brown Gold
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Who wanted to share land, and not divide it up?
Definition
The Native Americans
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Define the " Half-way Covenant"
Definition
This allowed non-church members to be accepted into the church without a conversion experience.
Term
Major Economic activities of the south?
Definition
farming crops such as indigo and tobacco
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Major Economic activities of the North?
Definition
Trading, Manufacturing, and Shipping
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A safe place for Catholics?
Definition
Maryland
Term
which group started plymouth?
Definition
the pilgrims.
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Why was Roger Williams exiled from Mass.?
Definition
Because he made friends with the Natives and taught a ministry to them.
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Why was Anne Hutchinson exiled from Mass.?
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Because she led a bible group and believed that people didn't need someone to interpret the bible for them. Authorities didn't like her criticism especially since women were not allowed to be a public role in the church.
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What event made the church and state separate?
Definition
The Salem Witch Trials
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Where was the place to live and the safe haven for Quakers?
Definition
Pennsylvania
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Explain Peter Stuyvesant's role in the New Netherland colony
Definition
He lead the government by strictly enforcing laws.
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Who founded New York?
Definition
The Dutch
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What were two big crops that were grown in the south?
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Indigo and Tobacco
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What colony had a theocracy?
Definition
Massachusettes
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What was Bacon's rebellion?
Definition
Where Bacon decided to send his own army to fight in the "Indian War". The governor told Bacon to stop but he marched on to williamsburg and burned the town ( he died a month later)

Showed social divisions between rich eastern Virginian planters and the western poor farmers
Term
What was the name of the almanac that Franklin published?
Definition
Poor Richard's Almanac - 1733
Term
Headright System?
Definition
Each settlers got 50 acres of land and an extra 50 per person that came with them.
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What was an indentured servant?
Definition
people who agreed to work for a man who paid for their voyage to america
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Why were slaves first brought to Virginia?
Definition
To work on plantations ( growing tobacco )
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House go Burgesses?
Definition
First Elected Government
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King James attitude toward Natives at first?
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He hated them and thought they were not good since they were not white and were not christians
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To work is to??
Definition
To survive/
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When did slavery arrive in Virginia?
Definition
1619
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Which colony gave debtors a second chance?
Definition
Georgia
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Which colony did Williams and Hutchinson found?
Definition
Rhode Island;
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