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| Explain how different physical environments impacted the lives of Native Americans | Culture is shaped by your environment |
| What was the major impact of Europeans on Native Americans? | disease |
| Who were the Puritans and what was the covenant community? | Mayflower Compact was the basis of government, John Winthrop eventually forms city upon a hill |
| What is the significance of Jamestown? | first permanent English settlement in North America |
| What was the Virginia House of Burgesses? | first representative govt in New World |
| When the Great Convergence took place, what was the major area of conflict between the Europeans and Native Americans? | land |
| Why were Africans brought to Jamestown in 1619? | slave labor |
| What are cavaliers? | English noblemen given land in Virginia |
| What is colonization? | establishing a settlement in a far away region for your country's profit |
| Describe the colonial economy in New England | trade, shippbuilding, merchants, manufacturing |
| Describe the colonial economy of the Middle Colonies | trade in port cities (NY, Philadelphia) breadbasket- food production |
| Describe the colonial economy of the Southern Colonies | plantations- large farms, slavery |
| What colonial area was known for religious tolerance? | Middle Colonies (Quakers, Catholics) |
| What was the major cash crop of the southern colonies? | tobacco |
| What was the Middle Passage? | journey of slaves from Africa to North America |
| What was the Enlightenment? | Age of scientific thinking and reason, Ben Franklin was an Enlightened thinker |
| What was the Great Awakening? | Religious revival |
| What were the effects of the French and indian War? | Britain needed to pay off debts so they began taxing colonists; road to revolution begins |
| What is the significance of the Proclamation of 1763? | colonists not allowed west of Appalachian Mountains |
| What was the significance of the Stamp Act? | direct tax on paper products, angered colonist who were not represented in Parliament; began boycotts |
| What was the significance of the Boston Massacre? | propaganda, tensions rise and violence breaks out (1770) |
| What is the significance of the Boston Tea Party? | leads to passage of the Intolerable Acts which close Boston Harbor, limit civil liberties |
| What is the First Continental Congress | meeting of colonial leaders, beginning of formation of govt |
| What happened at Lexington and Concord? | First shots of Revolutionary War |
| What was the turning point of Revolutionary War? | Saratoga, Ben Franklin arranged French Support |
| What was the final battle of the Revolution which was won with help from the French Fleet? | Yorktown |
| Who were the Loyalists (Tories)? | 1/3 of American people who remained loyal to Britain |
| Who is Thomas Paine? | wrote Common Sense |
| Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? | Thomas Jefferson |
| What were the major ideas of the Declaration of Independence? | life, liberty, pursuit of happiness; people for a social contract with govt and have right to overthorwn an abusive govt |
| Who did Thomas Jefferson borrow ideas from for the Declaration of Independence? | John Locke |
