Us History

Question 1

First successful colony of Britain

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1607 Jamestown

Question 2

Beginning of slavery

Answer 2

1619

Question 3

1756 1763

Answer 3

Seven years war

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Declaration of independence

Answer 4

1776

Question 5

Constitution

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1787

Question 6

Bill of rights

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1791

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1861 1865

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Civil War + end of slavery

Question 8

1775 1783

Answer 8

Independence war

Question 9

Colonialperiod

Answer 9

1607 1763

Question 10

Why England began to explore America 3 reasons

Answer 10

1 social+demographic reasons: English pop doubles
New land policies –>farming is profitable
2 economic reasons :unemployment and competition
3 religious reasons : persecution puritans criticize English church

Question 11

Elisabeth 1

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Gave permission to volonté America,led to the Roanoke venture (lost colony) financial failure

Question 12

James 1 joint stock company

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Investor built business and share the profits first one is Virginia company

Question 13

Virginia company

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1606—> created Jamestown company

Question 14

1609-1610

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Starving time, disease, hunger…no experience of living outside —> they were gentlemen from upper class

Question 15

tobacco

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Virginia first profitable export
—>colony survived
Tobacco became the gold they haven’t found

Question 16

John Rolfe

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Leader + military past. He organized the men to work he discovered tobacco

Question 17

Headright system

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Have 50 acres of land for free if you pay the ship for as many people as you want and then they become your servant for a number of years (5-7) –>INDENTURED SERVANTS

Question 18

Plymouth colony

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2nd successful colony

Question 19

John Winthrop

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Was a lawyer,called himself a saint, American colonial politician leader + 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony

Question 20

Roger Williams

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1603– March 1683)[1]was an English-bornNew EnglandPuritanminister, theologian, and author who foundedProvidence Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and later theState of Rhode Island. He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom,separation of church and state, and fair dealings with the Native Americans.[2

Question 21

Anthony Johnson

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Was an indentured servants and became the first black owner

Question 22

John Locke

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was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential ofEnlightenmentthinkers and commonly known as the “father ofliberalism”
Government should provide liberty life and private property
Right to revolt

Question 23

Thomas Paine

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was an English-born AmericanFounding Father, political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary.[2][3]He authoredCommon Sense(1776) andThe American Crisis(1776–1783),

Question 24

Monroe James

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James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States (1817–1825) and the last President from the Founding Fathers.

Question 25

David walker

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Born of an enslaved father and a free mother, Walker grew up free, obtained an education, and traveled throughout the country, settling in Boston. There he became involved in the abolition movement and was a frequent contributor to Freedom’s Journal,

Question 26

William garrinson

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the most widely circulated anti-slavery newspaper during the antebellum period and throughout the Civil War. It was published and edited in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison,

Question 27

Elizabeth Cady stanson

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Author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman’s rights and suffrage movements, Elizabeth Cady Stanton formulated the agenda for woman’s rights that guided the struggle well into the 20th century.

Question 28

Lucretia mott

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was an American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer. She had formed the idea of reforming the position of women in society when she was amongst the women excluded from the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London in 1840.