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US History 1 Mid-Term Review
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10th Grade
01/26/2011

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This group invented snow goggles, lanterns, and snow shoes.

 

 

Great Plains, North East, South East, Far North, Pacific Coast, or South West?

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Far North
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This group worshipped as a part of te kochina cult.

 

 

Great Plains, North East, South East, Far North, Pacific Coast, or South West?

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South West
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This group built totem poles.

Great Plains, North East, South East, Far North, Pacific Coast, or South West?
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Pacific Coast
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This group allowed women leadership roles in ntheir gov't.

Great Plains, North East, South East, Far North, Pacific Coast, or South West?
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North East
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This group hunted alligators

Great Plains, North East, South East, Far North, Pacific Coast, or South West?
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South East
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This grouped scalped their enemies or taunted them by poking them with a stick.

Great Plains, North East, South East, Far North, Pacific Coast, or South West?
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Great Plains
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This group lived in the rock siding like the Grand Canyon.

Great Plains, North East, South East, Far North, Pacific Coast, or South West?
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South West
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This group hunted buffalo

Great Plains, North East, South East, Far North, Pacific Coast, or South West?
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Great Plains
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The French first came to NA b/c the were...
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looking for the North West Passage
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Which explorer conquered the Aztecs of Mexico?
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Hernan Cortez
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Describe the class system of the southern colonies...
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  • There were 2 classes
  • Planataion owners at the top and a variety of landless  workers on the bottom
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What was the legeslative body of Virginia first founded in Jamestown?

 

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House of Burgesses
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Who was the slave that influenced the girls of Salem in fortne telling?

 

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Tituba
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What was the cash crop of the middle colonies?
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Wheat
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What European group originally bought Manhattan from the Indians and settled there?
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Dutch
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What 2 men founded the colony of NJ?
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George Berkley and John Carteret
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What type of religious philosophy defined the middle colonies?
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Freedom of religon
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Maryland was founded as a haven for what religious group?
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Catholics
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What colony was founded as a place for former pisoners/poor/homeless people to start over?
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Georgia
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What religios group settled in PA?
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Quakers
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What name was given to Massachussets Bay Colony b/c it would serve as an example to the world?
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City on a Hill
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What were the 3 money makig endeavors for the New England Colonies?
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Ship Bulding, Whaling, Fishing
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What was the name of the docment signed by the Pilgrims aboard their ship headed to America that defined their governement?
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Mayflower Compact
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First Permanent Settlement in the Americas
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JAMESTOWN
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What type of farming means to grow enough to nourish your family and possibly a little extra to sell?
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Subsistance Farming
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Indentured Servant vs. Slave
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An indentured servant only serves for a contraced amout of time.
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What famous Southerner crossed social class lines to fight the indians to expand the colony of Virginia?
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Nathanial Bacon
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What was the horrific journey the slaves took from Africa to America?
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The middle passage
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This man founded Rhode Island
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Roger Williams
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Was crushed to death during Salem Witch Trials
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Giles Corey
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Betrayed the colony by ruling as a dictator and ignoring the charter
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John Winthrop
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Founded Connecticut
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Thomas Hooker
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Relationship between Hernan Cortez (Spanish) and the Native Americans?
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They didnt get along, Cortez killed and raped them, enslaved them-- tried to  make them Catholic.
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What did the french trade that became very popular in Europe? 
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Beaver Fur
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What was the relationship between the French and the native americans?
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They got along cause they traded (fur)
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Tobacco
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Colonist grew tobacco and started to make oney

Became very popular in Europe

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Relationship between English and Native American
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Traded with them.... so so relationship
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Who was Anne Huchinson?
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woman who held prayer meeting in her house ans she claimed that god spoke to her directly and throught the bible and ther eis no need to go to church, got kicked out of puritain society b/c it was making the church lose money.
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Who sent Henry Hudson Hudson to explore North Amercia?
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the dutch
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Who takes over manhattan island after the dutch?
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The English
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Many Colonists concidered the coercive acts so oppressive they called them the...
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intolerabe acts
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In the Gaspee Affair...
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the colonist burned a brittish ship that had run aground
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The proclamation act of 1773 stated that the colonits could not settle west of a line drawn....
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throught The Appalachian Mountains
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Who primarily wrote the declaration of independence?
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Thomas Jefferson
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Britain passed the stamp act because they were in debt from expences during the ...
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French and Indian War
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What are the 3 unaienable rights?
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life, liberty and the persuit of happiness
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Loyalists are people who stayed loyal to.... and are also known as ....
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the king (george), tories
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What did the colonists feel about british taxation?
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they thought they shouldnt be taxed without representation in parliment (taxations w/o representation)
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What are some examples of things taxed under the stamp act?
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playing cards, property deeds, dice, NOT TEA BAGS!
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What even tcaused King George to become angry an punish the colonists with the coercive acts?
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boston tea party
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W hat british philosophe geatly influenced the content of the declaration?
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John Locke
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who said "give me liberty or give me death"
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patrick henry
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Which group had more casualties after Lextington and concord?
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British
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Explain the events of the first and second contenental congress?
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At the first contenental congress the wrote the declaration of rights and grievances and at the second the fromed the contenental army
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End result of the battle of bunker hill....
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the colonists were foced to surrender but it boosted american morale :)
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What were some of the advantages of the colonists?

 

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home feild

guirilla warfare

 reason to fight

good leaders

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What were some of the disadvantages of the colonists?
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bad weapons

out numbered

inexperienced/ disorganized

no training

no central gov't

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What were some of the advantages of the brittish?
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more experienced

better weapons

wealthier

organized

better weapons

more people

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What were some of the disadvantages of the birttish?
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dont know area

bad communication

too traditional

un-motivated

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What is burgoyne's 3 prong attack?
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a plan to attack on new york city and they wound up cornering cornwallis but the plan went wring becasue how never showed and made his own plan to attack philadelphia
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Saratoga was........
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Americans first win due to surrender of the british
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At battle of Yorktown.....
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BenedictArnorld Joined forced with British and Attacked Virginia
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