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GACE Middle Grades Social Science (015) Questions and Answers 100% Pass The end to hunting, gathering, and fishing of prehistoric people was due to Development of agriculture The English explorer who gave England its claim to North American was Cabot The first European to see Florida and sail along its coast was Cabot Maps as a rule are All subject to some sort of distortion Florida was originally settled by Spain Which one of the following is not a reason why Europeans came ...

US History Regents Review 142 Questions with Complete Solutions Mayflower Compact - Correct Answer A document written by the Pilgrims setting guidelines for self-government Virginia House of Burgesses - Correct Answer First representative government in the colonies, self-government Mercantilism - Correct Answer Economic system where the mother country benefits - raw materials sent from the colonies, colonists buy finished products from the mother country. Common Sense - Correct Answer ...

Bacon's Rebellion CORRECT ANSWER Friction between English settlers and Native Americans Articles of Confederation CORRECT ANSWER Goal that was clearly expressed was a limit on the power of the national government. This document, the nation's first constitution, was adopted by the second continental congress in 1781during the revolution. The document was limited because states held most of the power, and congress lacked the power to tax, regulate trade, or control coinage British Colony o...

APUSH Exam 250 things to knowJamestown 1607 Colony in Virginia, The first successful settlement in the Virginia colony founded in May, 1607. Harsh conditions nearly destroyed the colony. The settlement became part of the Joint Stock Virginia Company of London in 1620. Grew to be a prosperous shipping port. First Africans brought to Virginia 1619 The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to many poor Englishmen who traded several years labor in exchange for passa...

US History - ABCTEPre-Columbian - correct answer The age of history in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans (Columbus) Jamestown - correct answer 1607 - The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia. Located about 60 miles from the Chesapeake Bay to avoid being an easy target for Spanish explorers also trying to claim land. Who were the colonists at Jamestown employed by? - correct answer Virginia Company Who fought the Pequot War? - correct...

USI Final Exam - Questions with Verified Answers The Ohio River Valley: What & Where Region of fertile land along the Ohio River The Ohio River Valley: Historical Significance The point of contention that sparked the French and Indian War. Both the French and British claimed it. They wanted the area because the rivers allowed for transportation. The Proclamation of 1763: What & Where Boundary that Britain established in the Appalachian Mountains, west of which white settlement was banned; also...

Bacon's Rebellion - Answer In 1676, Nathaniel Bacon, a Virginia planter, led a group of 300 settlers in a war against the local Native Americans. When Virginia's royal governor questioned Bacon's actions, Bacon and his men looted and burned Jamestown. Bacon's Rebellion manifested the increasing hostility between the poor and wealthy in the Chesapeake region. Jamestown - Answer First permanent English settlement in North America Peter Stuyvesant - Answer The governor of the Dut...

Massachusetts Bay Colony Established in 1629 by the Puritans. Governor John Winthrop called it a "city upon a hill." Established for religious purposes. Puritans Religious dissidents who traveled to the New World to develop a purer church than the Church of England. Indentured Servents Exchanged work for passage to the New World. London Company Permitted by King James I to establish Jamestown for economic reasons. Powhatan Confederacy Native American alliance w...

WATCH THIS CRASH COURSE SERIES - Pre-Columbian Peoples of the American Southwest - -Agriculturally focused groups that developed powerful and complex societies -Became increasingly dependent on the cultivation of maize Pre-Columbian economy in Great Basin and the western Great Plains - - Migratory because of limited resources Pre-Columbian economy in the Northeast and along the Atlantic Seaboard - -Another Group of tribes in present-day NY formed the Iroquois League -Cultivated crops...

ACP English Study Guide Exam Questions & Answers 2024/2025 What was the purpose of Patrick Henry's Speech in the Virginia Convention? (I.E. What was he trying to persuade his audience to do - ANSWERSThe main purpose of Patrick Henry 's speech at Virginia Conference, was to convince the delegates to secede from Britain; moreover, to fight back against them. "This is no time for ceremony. The question before the house is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider i...