FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH

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FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH

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Question 1: mayflower compact

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signed by 41 English colonists on the ship Mayflower on November 11, 1620, was the first written framework of government established in what is now the United States.

Question 2: new england confederation

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a short-lived military alliance of the English colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven.

Question 3: ponriac's rebellion

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Pontiac's Conspiracy, or Pontiac's Rebellion was a war that was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes primarily from the Great Lakes region

Question 4: thomas paine

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an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary

Question 5: great awakening

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refer to several periods of religious revival in American religious history

Question 6: william bradford

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English Separatist leader who grew up in Yorkshire, and later moved to Leiden, Holland, and helped found the Plymouth Colony. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact while aboard the Mayflower in 1620.

Question 7: stamp act congress

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First Congress of the American Colonies was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America; it was the first gathering of elected representatives from severa

Question 8: john locke

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an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".

Question 9: first continential congress

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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.

Question 10: proclamation of 1763

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was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mou

Question 11: virtual representation

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was the British response to the First Continental Congress in the American colonies. The Congress asked for representation in Parliament in the Suffolk Resolves, also known as the first olive branch petition. Parliament claimed that their members had the

Question 12: common sense

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Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.

Question 13: phyllis wheatley

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Phillis Wheatley was the first published African-American female poet. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at the age of seven and transported to North America.

Question 14: sons of liberty

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The Sons of Liberty was an organization of American colonists that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies. The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government.

Question 15: olive branch

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was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies, that the Congress represented, and Great Britain. The petition affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain and entreate

Question 16: halfway covenant

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a form of partial church membership created by New England in 1662. It was promoted in particular by the Reverend Solomon Stoddard,

Question 17: city on the hill

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Massachusetts Bay colonists that their new community would be "as a city upon a hill", watched by the world - which became the ideal the New England colonists placed upon their hilly capital city, Boston.

Question 18: headright system

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A headright is a legal grant of land to settlers.

Question 19: boston tea party

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(initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773.

Question 20: sugar act of 1764

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. On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molass

Question 21: anne hutchinsom

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was a Puritan spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638.

Question 22: Identured servants

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were men and women who signed a contract (also known as an indenture or a covenant) by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, food, clothing, and shelter

Question 23: iroquois confederacy

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as the Haudenosaunee /?ho?d?n???o?ni/, are a historically powerful and important northeast Native American confederacy.

Question 24: boston massacre

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was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citize

Question 25: townshend acts

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The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program