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Great Columbian / Biological Exchange - ANSWERSExchange of plants and animals between the New World and Europe following the discovery of America in 1492. Christopher Columbus - ANSWERSItalian explorer, sailed from Spain in 1492 and reached Americas, greatly increased European awareness of the North American Continent Bartolomeo de las Casas - ANSWERS16th Century Spanish Historian, Dominican Friar, "Protector of the Indians;" opposed atrocities by colonizers on Indigenous people Spani...

Massachusetts Bay Colony - ANSWERSEstablished in 1629 by the Puritans. Governor John Winthrop called it a "city upon a hill." Established for religious purposes. Puritans - ANSWERSReligious dissidents who traveled to the New World to develop a purer church than the Church of England. Indentured Servents - ANSWERSExchanged work for passage to the New World. London Company - ANSWERSPermitted by King James I to establish Jamestown for economic reasons. Powhatan Confederacy - ANSWERSNa...

1.2 Native American Societies Before European Contact - ANSWERSExplain how and why various native populations in the period before European contact interacted with the natural environment in North America Explain how the spread of maize impacted the American Southwest - ANSWERSThe new crop that Europeans brought during the Columbian Exchange allowed for migrating Natives to learn how to farm/ nurture crops. in return Europeans received new crops to take back to the old world, the main one bei...

Chesapeake Bay Area - ANSWERSmajority of migrants who moves there were indentured servants, economy based on tobacco, few women, less democratic Deism - ANSWERSthe belief that God had created the world but allowed it to operate through the laws of nature exodusters - ANSWERSafrican americans who fled the violence of the Reconstruction South in 1879 and 1880 to start a new in Kansas (west) scalawags - ANSWERSterm used by southerners in the reconstruction era for fellow southerners who ei...

Great Columbian / Biological Exchange - ANSWERSExchange of plants and animals between the New World and Europe following the discovery of America in 1492. Christopher Columbus - ANSWERSItalian explorer, sailed from Spain in 1492 and reached Americas, greatly increased European awareness of the North American Continent Bartolomeo de las Casas - ANSWERS16th Century Spanish Historian, Dominican Friar, "Protector of the Indians;" opposed atrocities by colonizers on Indigenous people Spani...

Thomas Paine's Common Sense - ANSWERSPublished in early 1776. Presented many arguments in favor of independence. Became a quick bestseller. Presented arguments in that had early been developed in a way less educated people could understand. that the United Colonies aught to be free and independent states. Was in the Richard Henry Lee - ANSWERSRuled Continental Congress Committee of Five - ANSWERSThe five who were appointed to draft the declaration of independence. Consisted of Benjamin Fr...

Study Tips - ANSWERSSo you don't have to do all 112 terms at the same time, you can star all of the terms in a certain period, and study only those until you get them right, then move on to the next period. I recommend going through the entire thing at least once because the test won't be ordered period by period, it'll have everything all in one place. Also I don't explain the causes behind the events too much in this quizlet, so if you're confused about why something happened ask M...

As a result of the American Revolution, the Anglican Church in America was - ANSWER-Weakened. During the American Revolution, female "camp followers" - ANSWER-Assisted in the support of regular troops. Which of the following statements regarding Benedict Arnold is FALSE? - ANSWER-Arnold spent the last years of the Revolution as a prisoner of war. The war effort by American colonists would be financed primarily by - ANSWER-Borrowing from abroad. During the 1780s, most state governme...

1.2 Native American Societies Before European Contact - ANSWERSExplain how and why various native populations in the period before European contact interacted with the natural environment in North America Explain how the spread of maize impacted the American Southwest - ANSWERSThe new crop that Europeans brought during the Columbian Exchange allowed for migrating Natives to learn how to farm/ nurture crops. in return Europeans received new crops to take back to the old world, the main one bei...

Chesapeake Bay Area - ANSWERSmajority of migrants who moves there were indentured servants, economy based on tobacco, few women, less democratic Deism - ANSWERSthe belief that God had created the world but allowed it to operate through the laws of nature exodusters - ANSWERSafrican americans who fled the violence of the Reconstruction South in 1879 and 1880 to start a new in Kansas (west) scalawags - ANSWERSterm used by southerners in the reconstruction era for fellow southerners who ei...