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Road to a Revolution
5th Grade Social Studdies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the New England colonies known for? | Rocky soil, fishing, and strict Puritans. |
| What are the Middle colonies known for? | Good soil, the “bread basket,” Religion freedom. |
| What were the Southern colonies known for? | Great farming land, grapes, cotton indigo, and debtors. (No real religion.) |
| What was the House of Burgesses? | The first legislative body of the colonies with elected representatives. |
| Who was John Locke? | He was a man who had ideas about government responsibilities and citezen’s rights. |
| According to John Locke, what was the right of the citezens concerning government? | If the government doesn’t protect their natural rights, they have right to find or start a new government. |
| What, according to John Locke, are all people born with? | Natural Rights |
| Who was Mr. Zenger | |
| Who was Mr. Zenger? | A colonist who printed an article about the Royal Governor’s dishonesty but was found innocent after trail and being in jail for a bit. |
| Who was Phillis Wheatley? | An enslaved African who was taught to read and write by Mr. and Mrs. Wheatley after being kidnapped at age 8. |
| What role did Phillis play in the road to the Revolution? | She wrote poetry that compared the colonists hunger for freedom to slaves wanting freedom. |
| What happens when colonist are no longer “British?” | They break away piece by piece and start tweaking the laws so that they are better for them. |
| What did the Spanish do in America? | They built 100s of missions settlements to “convert” native to Catholicism. |
| Why did the Spanish move north to California, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico? | Because they feared the Russians and French that were creeping into their land. |
| In response to Russia and France, what did the Spanish do? | They built presidios, or military forts. |
| What is the El Camino Real? | A road from Mexico City to many mission settlements. |
| What was France’s commonest economic deal in America? | Fur trading (Specifically beaver fur) |
| Name three fur trading posts. | Quebec, Detroit, and in 1770, Chicago |
| To be a fur trapper, you had to have special qualities or beliefs, so there were illegal fur trappers. What were they called? | Coreurs de Bois |
| Legal or otherwise, what did all the trappers and missionaries do? | Acted friendly to the natives and some even learned their language! |
| When did Rene claim Mississippi River Valley? | 1682 |
| Who was Louisiana named after? | Lois XIV |
| What does France do that is more permanent than trapping and missionaries? | Builds forts to keep Spain out and TRIES to settle. |
| Where did France try to colonies and what really happened? | They attempted to colonize the Mississippi mouth, but they ended up in Texas and only 36/300 survive. |
| By 1660, how many live in France? | Only 3,000 |
| Who established New Orleans? | Jean Baptiste in 1718 |
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