Colonial America Assessment

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20 questions
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What crop was cultivated by slave labor in the Americas?

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What was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas?

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What was the first permanent Spanish settlement in the Americas?

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What crop was introduced to settler farmers by John Rolfe?

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What happened in Jamestown in the winter of 1609-1610?

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What was it called when people signed contracts to work in order to get a free passage to America?

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What happened when the Virginia Company lost their charter?

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What were the three types of British colonies?

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Did most people in the South own slaves?

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Why were the colonists guaranteed the rights promised by the English Bill of Rights?

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Why did the French get along better with the Native Americans better than the English did?

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What was the difference between the French and Indian War and the Seven Years' War?

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Which key American idea was developed by Bostonian James Otis and coined by Samuel Adams?

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Why did England send a standing army to the Colonies

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Who was responsible for the Boston Tea Party

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What was the reasoning behind the Coercive Acts?

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What were the colonial militiamen nicknamed?

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Who fired first at the Battle of Lexington?

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How many battles were in the Revolutionary War?

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What are the three branches of government?