HST 125 Spring 2025 final trivia

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What year was the Declaration of Independence signed?

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1776

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Which colony did some English people move to so they could freely practice their preferred religion, Puritanism?

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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What were enslaved people forced to work long hours planting and harvesting in the South?

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cash crops

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What was the name of the first successful English colony, founded in 1607?

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Jamestown, in Virginia Colony

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Which English colony was settled by the Quakers?

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Pennsylvania

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What was the last major battle of the American Revolution?

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Battle of Yorktown

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Who wrote the influential pamphlet "Common Sense" (which Lin-Manuel Miranda summed up in the line, "why should a tiny island across the sea regulate the price of tea?")?

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Thomas Paine

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What was the name of the treaty that ended the American Revolutionary War?

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Treaty of Paris

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What document establishes the current framework of the United States government?

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The Constitution

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How much did the United States pay to France for the Louisiana Purchase?

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$15 million