10 US History Elwell
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10 US History Elwell Semester 1 Exam Study Guide
Define, identify, or describe the following:
Chapter 1 1) radiocarbon dating 2) Renaissance 3) Country Christopher Columbus sailed for 4) Treaty of Tordesillas
Chapter 2 5) conquistador 6) first permanent English settlement in North America 7) Hernan Cortes 8) John Rolfe 9) Francisco Pizarro 10) Hernando de Soto 11) Joliet and Marquette (people)
Chapter 3 12) Who (group of people) made rice successful in South Carolina? 13) Language developed by African slaves in the colonies 14) John Locke’s natural rights 15) Cash crop 16) Middle Passage 17) Mercantilism
Chapter 4 18) George Washington’s role during the American Revolution 19) Gaspee Affair 20) Washington’s surprise attack at Trenton 21) Committees of correspondence 22) Robert Morris 23) Two turning points of the Revolutionary War 24) Benedict Arnold 25) Battle of Yorktown 26) Why the Americans struggled to pay for the War 27) Lafayette and von Steuben 28) Writer of the Declaration of Independence 29) Common Sense
Chapter 5 30) The year of the adoption of the Articles of Confederation 31) Problems of the Articles of Confederation 32) What is the Federalist Papers or The Federalist 33) Virginia, New Jersey Plans 34) Three-Fifths Compromise 35) First Amendment 36) Second Amendment 37) Nineteenth Amendment