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5.1 Part One The Thirteen Colonies and the War of Independence ExercisesChapter Five HistoryPart One The Thirteen Colonies and the War of IndependenceExercisesⅠ. Fill in the blanksA number of historians believe that the first American Indians were hunter-gatherers from .In this great age of European exploration , the Portuguese explorer named Bartoloneo Dias rounded the of Africa in 1488 and Columbus discovered in 1492 , and .The immigration from England into the colonies in North America was first sponsored bywith the support of the English Government.The thirteen colonies in North America were divided into three kinds: , and .The Virginia Company built the first English settlement on the James River in 1607 and named it . Plymouth Colony was founded by a group of Separatists known as who worked out an agreement known as in 1620.Quaker merchants refuse to bargain because and are Quaker by words.To survive in the wilderness , the early colonists had to solve two problems: and .Most of the early colonists were from England who immigrated into the New World to seek .To develop agricultural production , the colonists had to make their to clear the land of forests and bushes for crops.Britain’s American colonies were characterized by development.Each colony was directly governed by a governor appointed by the or .Many American historians believe the verdict upon the case of established freedom of the press in America.Radicals who called themselves the organized non-importation associations and trade with England fell off sharply.The jumpy soldiers guarding the office building in Boston fired into the protesters and killed five people . The incident has been known as in American history.During the debate for independence , Thomas Paine published a pamphlet entitled to support independence.While the alarms of Lexington were still resounding , the Second met in Philadelphia on May 10 , 1775 , in a house which later became known as Independence Hall.The Second Continental Congress appointed a committee of five members to draw up the .The Declaration embodied the ideas of the .About 20% of the colonists remained loyal to England became known as in American history.Ⅱ. Translate the following terms into Chinesespirit of enterpriseYankeesproprietary colonysalve tradePlantationsNon-importation Associationsfree of import dutyIntolerable ActsLexington CommonsJohn Locke’s Two Treatises of Governmentthe Articles of ConfederationⅢ.Translate the following terms into English皇室殖民地教友会缓冲殖民地《五月花号公约》《印花税法》波士顿大屠杀波士顿茶党案第一次大陆会议大陆军独立宣言Ⅳ. Answer the following questions in a few sentencesWhat does Mayflower Compact refer to?What rights did the colonists have?How about the life of the early colonists in the colonies?What’s the relationship between the Colonies and England?What is meant by no taxation without representation?What is the Boston Tea Party?
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