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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The adoption of farming was revolutionary because it | was believed that neighbors must have rushed to adopt the new practices |
| The theory that the development of farming constituted a revolution was based on the | concept that human history is the story of technological progress |
| The Clovis Tradition refers to the | improved tolls of 11,000 years ago that had fluted blades and lance points |
| The Folsom Culture | refers to a new style of tools dating from 10,000 |
| The tools developed around 11,000 yrs ago that had sharper, finer points and blades were | Clovis tools |
| The early English settlements in New England | benefited from reduced Indian resistance after an epidemic cut the Indian population |
| The Puritans interacted with the Algonquian peoples by | noting that God removed them by disease and Scripture justified their destruction |
| The society that grew up with slavery in the South | was one of great wealth for a few and landless poverty for about 40% |
| The Anglican minister from England who brought the Great Awakening to the colonists was | George Whitefield |
| The middle colonies of New York and Pennsylvania were quite similar because both | were ethnically diverse |
| After the Bible, the best selling books in the colonies were of a uniquely American literary genre called the | captivity narrative |
| The main way colonists protested the Townshend Revenue Acts was through | non-importation and non-consumption |
| The ____ included the claims that sovereignty rests with the people, that a government is the servant of the people, and the freedom of the press is one of the greatest defenses of liberty | Virginia Declaration of Rights |
| The most famous African American writer in the late 18th C was the poet | Phyllis Wheatley |
| The 1st colonists to publicly criticize slavery were | Quakers |
| After 1675, Chesapeake's society is described as a | slave society |
| Prior to the Zenger Case of 1735, most colonial newspapers | advocated the government's posistion |
| The colonial products that had to be sent directly to England, according to the Parliamentary Act passed between 1651 & 1696 were known as | enumerated commodities |