Mesoamerica
Before people settled and created civilizations (before agriculture), how did they survive
They hunted, gathered, and migrated based on weather and animal migration.
What are the three reasons countries explore and conquer new lands (what are they looking for)?
Gold
Natural Resources
Land
Who did we fight against and beat in the Revolutionary War?
The British
What stopped the colonists from expanding West until they won the Revolutionary War?
Proclamation of 1763
What was the Civil War really fought over?
Slavery
How did people come to the Americas from Asia?
Beringia Land Bridge
Describe the Triangular Trade (what is each country sending to each other).
England was sending manufactured goods and getting raw materials and Gold
The 13 Colonies were sending raw materials and Rum and getting maufactured goods and slaves
Africa was getting manufactured goods and run and sending slaves and gold
Name the 4 Southern colonies.
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Virginia
What was the area of land called that we bought from the French?
Louisiana Purchase
What were the 2 sides were fighting in the Civil War?
Union and Confederacy
What is a Primary Source?
An artifact from the tie period.
What 5 countries (that we studied) sent explorers to the New World?
The Dutch, Portugal, Spain, England, and France
Name the 4 Middle Colonies.
New York
New jersey
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Why did we fight in the Mexican American war? What areas did we get because of it?
The annexation of Texas. California, Nevada, Colorado, etc.
Who was President of the Union during the Civil War?
President Lincoln
What group of Native Americans were located in Central NY?
Iroquois Confederacy.
Describe the three parts of the Middle Passage (slave trade)
Capture in Africa
Marched to the West Coast and put in Slave Castles
Sold to European slavers and sailed acroiss the Atlantic
Sold at American markets and put to work on plantations
Name the 4 New England colonies.
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
This purchase completed the New Mexico/Arizona area of the USA.
The Gadsden Purchase.
What famous speech did he give at Gettysburg and what did it do
Gettysburg Address or Emancipation Proclomation. It declared that slaves were free.
List the 4 groups of early Americans (North, Central and South), or Mesoamericans, that we studied and tell me where they were located.
Aztec- Mexico/Mexico City
Mayan- Southern Mexico and Belize
Inca- Andes Mountains/South America
Which group settled the New York Area?
The Dutch
What were the British angry about? How did they fight this injustice?
No taxation without representation. Boycotts
What was the big fight about in congress as we added new Western states?
Whether they would be free of slave states.
Name two of the the advantages that the North had over the South.
More Railroads
More Factories
More People