8th Grade U.S. History
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| show | Spain
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| To go all the way around the circumference of the world is called what? | show 🗑
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| show | disease carried over from Europeans
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| show | gold
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| Why is the Mayflower Compact important? | show 🗑
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| show | long, cold, snowy
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| show | The bread basket of America
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| William Penn wanted his colony to be a "holy experiment" where people of all faiths could live side by side. What was the name of his colony? | show 🗑
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| Describe the climate of the Southern colonies... | show 🗑
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| show | Slave labor
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| What colony was created for debtors? | show 🗑
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| What were the English Pilgrims who settled Plymouth Colony seeking? | show 🗑
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| The earliest, enthusiastic Christian movement that swept through the colonies was called what? | show 🗑
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| The long, brutal journey for slaves loaded into slave ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean was known as what? | show 🗑
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| show | Public school
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| Harsh laws designed to keep slaves in line were called what? | show 🗑
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| The trial of John Peter Zenger helped establish the idea of freedom of the....????? | show 🗑
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| show | Ben Franklin
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| Who said, "Give me liberty, or give me death?" | show 🗑
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| show | Minutemen
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| Who was the commander of the Continental army? | show 🗑
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| Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill overlooked what important city? | show 🗑
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| show | Blockade
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| show | Thomas Paine
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| Thomas Jefferson borrowed many of his arguments found in the Declaration of Independence about natural rights from what Enlightenment thinker? | show 🗑
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| show | July 4th, 1776
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| Why did some enslaved African Americans choose to fight for the British during the American Revolution? | show 🗑
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| What branch of the federal government is the President a part of? | show 🗑
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| What do we call a period of time when business activity slows, prices and wages drop, and unemployment rises? | show 🗑
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| The first form of government adopted by our country that gave little power to the federal government and most power to the states was called what? | show 🗑
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| What branch of government consists of a system of courts to interpret the law? | show 🗑
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| What do we call the ceremony where the President takes the oath of office? | show 🗑
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| show | Lewis and Clark
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| What country did the United States purchase the Louisiana territory from? | show 🗑
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| Who was the commander of American forces during the Battle of New Orleans? | show 🗑
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| What would the forced removal of Native Americans from their homes in the South to land in present day Oklahoma be called? | show 🗑
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| What invention would increase the number of slaves throughout the South due to the large expansion of cotton production? | show 🗑
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| What do we call the time in history where machines took the place of many hand tools and where much of the power that ran factories was conducted by steam power? | show 🗑
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| What reform movement was Horace Mann associated with? | show 🗑
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| Who was the founder of the Mormons? | show 🗑
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