First Settlers and Native Americans
What are irrigation systems?
Man-made channels of water designed to water crops.
What was the Age of Exploration?
A time period when people discovered new lands.
What was the overall goal of the Revolution?
To become independent from Great Britain.
What was the main cause of the Civil War?
Slavery
Define nomadic
People who move for better resources and food.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
An alliance between the different Iroquois tribes.
What new technology was invented during this time?
The magnetic compass and astrolobe.
What does "Join or Die" mean?
The colonies needed to unite or they would lose the war.
Who was the president of the United States during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln.
What is Colonization?
The process of settling in an area away from your home land.
Early people migrated from Asia to North America across a land bridge that once connected Siberia and Alaska during the Ice Age.
What is mercantilism?
An economic and political system with government-controlled trade.
What are natural rights?
Rights that you are born with, including life and liberty.
What was the battle that started the Civil War?
What does revolution mean?
To overthrow a government.
What is Native American culture centered around?
Nature and the environment.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
The exchange of diseases and goods from the new world.
Who was John Locke?
An enlightenment thinker that believed in Natural Rights.
What was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War?
The battle of Gettysburg.
What is a militia?
An army
What are the 5 Iroquois tribes?
Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Cayuga and Mohawk.
What does it mean to circumnavigate and who did it?
To circumnavigate means to sail around something. Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated.
What was enlightenment?
A time period when people focused on reason, science and individual rights.
Who was fighting during the Civil War and who was in charge of each army.
The Union and the Confederacy were fighting. Ulysses S. Grant was in charge of the Union army and Robert E. Lee was in charge of the Confederate army.
What is the Underground Railroad and what was its significance during the war?
The Underground Railroad was a group of people who helped enslaved people escape to freedom.