EMCC American History Final Exam

Thomas Jefferson - Answer- Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? Virginia - Answer- What was the most populous colony in English America? Massachusetts - Answer- Where did the pilgrims enter America? they paid little to no attention to the colonies - Answer- What was England's early view of the colonies? People loyal to France - Answer- Who were Loyalists during the American Revolution? A step towards self-government - Answer- What was the Mayflower Compact? tobacco, it could be produced easily and quickly - Answer- What was considered the poor man's crop and why? Roanoke Island - Answer- Where was the first English attempt at colonization? The most important colony settled by Americans in 1600 - Answer- What and where was Jamestown? Likely how the first settlers got to America - Answer- Land Bridge in Eurasia It exposed a land bridge located between Eurasia and North America - Answer- What effect did the Great Ice Age have on North America's human history? Common Sense - Answer- What did Thomas Paine write? fighting and bloodshed took place, and war began. - Answer- What happened when Parliament rejected the petitions of the Continental Congress? Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Answer- Where was the first Continental Congress? white servants - Answer- Where did the Chesapeake Colonies get their work from? young men frustrated by their inability to acquire land - Answer- What was Bacon's Rebellion mostly supported by? Widened the social structure - Answer- What did slavery do to the social structure in the South? Africans - Answer- What was the largest non-English ethnic group in America in 1775?