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Unit 1 Test Review Game
Test is Monday, September 23, 2013. In addition to this information, please review your textbook, classwork, CMMs, review notes, and maps. You will need to be able to identify the 13 original colonies by region and reason for settlement. You will also need to identify where and why the Spanish, British, and French came to the "New" World. Finally, you will need to identify the major physical feature of the North American continent.
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| Asia | Earliest Americans are believed to have come from _________, across a frozen a land bridge, Beringia |
| Great Britian, France, and Spain | The three countries that divided up most of North America for colonization |
| merchantilism | An economic system based on the belief that colonies existed to increase the mother country's wealth. |
| colonialism | The control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or people |
| Columbian Exchange | The term used to describe the exchange of goods, products, ideas, and disease between European explorers and Native Americans |
| sectionalism | Term describing the three "regions" within the colonies that were separated by different economic, social, and political ideas |
| Middle Colonies | Diverse population, seaports in Philadelphia and New York City, trading centers |
| New England Colonies | Education, religious freedom, fishing, very few slaves |
| Southern Colonies | Slavery, farming, rich soil and warm climate |
| Loyalist | Supported King George III and were "loyal" to Britian |
| Patriot | Fought as revolutionaries against Britian for American independence |
| Treaty of Paris | Officially recognized the US as an independent country; officially ended the Revolutionary War |
| Thomas Payne | Wrote Common Sense |
| Boston Massacre | Used as propoganda to help the patriots communicate their message |
| No representation in British Parliament | One reason Americans felt that King George had broken their social contract |
| Popular sovereignty | "Consent of the governed" |
| Social contract | The people can overthrow a governemnt that does not protect natural rights |
| Natural rights | God-given, human rights, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness |
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