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1) What was Columbus looking for when he ‘discovered’ America?
–A western sea route to Asia
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3) What was the result of the English defeat of the Spanish Armada?
– England replaced Spain as dominant world power
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6) What was one of Roger Williams ‘dangerous ideas’?
–The separation of church and state
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7) How did England’s wars in Europe affect the colonies in America?
– They spilled over to the colonies
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1) What was the significance of the Zenger trial?
– Established that truth is a defense against libel
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1) How did England tick off the colonists between 1750 and 1765?
–By passing a series of Acts that limited the colonies or that cost them money
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2) How did the colonists resist the British government?
– Resolutions, refusals, boycotts, violence
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4) What was the First Continental Congress?
– A meeting of 12 of the colonies co-ordinate responses to the British government
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American History
Review: Conflict, Revolution & an Unlikely Victory
(1775 - 1783)
Review by Ruth Anderson
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1) What was the significance of the ‘Shot heard around the world'?
– It started the American Revolution.
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4) How well did the American forces do for most of the revolution?
– Not well. The British had the upper hand’ for much of the time.
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5) What was as important as weapons to the success of the American Revolution?
– The written word
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1) What did Shay’s Rebellion lead to?
– Led to calls for a stronger central government
– Congress calling for a constitutional convention.
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2) How did the Constitutional Convention revise the Articles of Confederation?
– They didn’t revise them. Instead they created an entirely new form of national government.
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4) What is the Bill of Rights?
– The first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution.
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1) What was an unintentional consequence of the invention of the Cotton Gin?
– The continuance of slavery in America• More cotton was grown and needed to be
picked
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2) What effect did the Sedition Act of 1798 have?
– Virtually got ride of the First Amendment freedoms of speech and the press
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