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History Chapter 3

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show whose detailed style allowed him to eventually find success in Europe as a member of Great Britain's Royal Academy.He is known especially for his portraits of colonial political figures  
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William Billings   show
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Benjamin Franklin   show
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show helped to introduce the smallpox vaccine in America  
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show in 1769, they led a party of men into the Appalachians. To protect the settlers from the natives, they built a fort which later became the town of Boonesborough  
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show Of Massachusetts wrote a history of his Conley and is considered to have been the foremost historian of his day.  
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John Peter Zenger   show
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Scots-Irish   show
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show The middle colonies, with their fertile soil and moderate climate, were called the bread colonies because they produced an abundance of grain, including wheat, corn, barley, and oats. They also produced fruits, vegetables,and livestock.  
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show By 1750, the larger cities were connected by this over which the mail was carried.  
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show In the early colonial days most manufacturing was done by the entries family in the home  
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show Ships sailing from the New England colonies to Africa usually stopped at two distant ports before returning to New England; thus, the routes they followed became known as triangular trade routes.  
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Enlightenment   show
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show In 1775, Boone and a group of frontiersmen connected And widened the existing native trails through the Cumberland gap blazing a trail  
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Harvard College   show
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show Required all towns of st least fifty families to hire a teacher and all towns of one hundred families or more to establish grammar school.  
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show the most widely used textbook colonial America. This book contained word lists, poems, prayers, Bible stories, and other character-building stories. After the Primer, students read the Bible and classics like Pilgrim's Progress  
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show He was perhaps the first internationally known American writer.One of his most famous works, not only provided meteorological and astro-nomical information but also offered Simple and sound advice couched in good humor  
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show Only those who contributed to their support could borrow books  
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Boston News-Letter   show
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New-England Courant   show
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Bicameral   show
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show English  
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The New England colonies   show
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The Middle colonies   show
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The Southern colonies   show
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The three class distinctions in America   show
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show Harvard College  
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show Philadelphia Academy, College of William and Mary, Yale, Princeton University, Columbia University, Brown University, Rutgers, Dartmouth College, University of Pennsylvania  
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The foremost historian of his day   show
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show In ____ the Puritans of Massachusetts founded Harvard College in Cambridge  
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1647   show
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Name the two western-most cities in the colonies in 1770   show
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Which colonies were settled before 1650?   show
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In what colonies were rice and indigo grown?   show
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What major cities would have been centers of the fishing industry?   show
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show Boston, Salem, Portsmouth, Newport  
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