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SS Flashcards

1
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Spanish motives

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Gold
Northwest passage

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French motives

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Spread Christianity
Northwest passage

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England motives

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Colonize
Northwest passage

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4
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Christopher Columbus

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1492
Palos,Spain to Asia and the indies
Instead discovered the americas

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5
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Hernan Cortes

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1519
Conquered mexico by defeating the Aztecs and their leader Montezuma

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6
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1000

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Leif Erickson discovers Vinland(new england)

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7
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1492

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Christopher Columbus discovers america

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8
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1479

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John Cabot discovers continental North America

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9
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1507

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New world names after Amerigo Vespucci

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10
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1513

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Vascular Nunez de balboa discovers the Pacific Ocean

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11
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1519

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Herman Cortes conquers mexico

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12
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1521

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Ferdinand Magellan sails around the world

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13
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St Augustine

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Oldest city in the US
Founded 1565 by the Spanish
Ponce de Leon explored it looking for gold

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14
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Jamestown

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1st permanent English colony in the americas
1607

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15
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Plymouth colony

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Americas 1st permant puritan settlement
Established by English separatist puritans in 1620

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16
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Rhode Island Colony

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Founded 1636 by Roger Williams

17
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The pilgrims

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English puritan separatists seeking religious freedom

18
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The thirteen colonies

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New England colonies
- New Hampshire
- Massachusetts
- Rhode Island
- Connecticut

Middle colonies
- New York
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware

Southern colonies
- Maryland
- Virginia
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- Georgia

19
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Stamp act

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Tax put on american colonies by the British in 1765

20
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Townsend acts

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Passed by British parliament in 1767
Taxed goods like paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea that were imported to the american colonies and established
- american customs board in Boston to collect taxes
- courts in america to prosecute smugglers without a local jury
- the right of British officials to search colonists’ houses and businesses

21
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Boston tea party

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December 16,1773
Result of the tea tax of 1773
Dumped 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston massacre
Perpetuated sons of liberty

22
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Sons of liberty

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