VUS 2-8 Review

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The economy of the New England colonies resolved around all of the following EXCEPT: fishing, naval supplies, shipbuilding, cash crops

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cash crops

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Which geographic feature is common to all three colonial regions? Boston Harbor, Appalachian Mountains, rich farmlands, Piedmont

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Appalachian Mountains

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Which title best completes the list above? Rocky soil, jagged coastline, town meetings, villages and churches

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The New England Colonies

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What was the Mayflower Compact?

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A document that set up an organized government for the Pilgrims

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Why did Parliament pass the Sugar and Stamp Acts on the colonist?

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to pay part of the cost of defending the frontier (French and Indian War) and colonial governments

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How did the Intolerable Acts punish Massachusetts economically?

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closed the port of Boston until the colonist paid for the tea

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Colonists that support the British were called

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Loyalists

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Whose Enlightenment philosophy did Jefferson use in the Declaration of Independence?

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John Locke

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According to Thomas Jefferson, what inalienable rights did all men have?

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life, liberty and pursuit of happiness

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The French fleet helped the Continental Army at the Battle of Yorktown by

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stopping Cornwallis’ troops from escaping by sea