Native Americans migrated from Asia to North America during the Ice Age
What is the Land Bridge Theory?
100
Viking from Greenland
Who is Leif Eriksson?
100
settled along the Atlantic coast of North America for both religious freedom and economic opportunity
Who settled the colonies?
100
war fought between Franc and England over lands in the Ohio River Valley
What is the French and Indian War?
100
Authority is with the states
What is Articles of Confederation?
200
Indians that lived in cedar plank houses, log houses and used totem poles to show a family's history
What is The Pacific Northwest Indians?
200
explored for Spain looking for a rich American Indian city full of gold and claimed most of southeastern United States for Spain
Who is Hernando de Soto?
200
settled Quebec on the St. Lawrence River and along the Mississippi River and established a fur trade with native Americans
Who are the French?
200
a tax created by Britain in 1764 on imported goods such as sugar, coffee, and cloth
What is the Sugar Act?
200
governing powers are shared between the states and the federal government
What is the Constitution?
300
lived in teepees because they could easily move them when needed for traveling; used horses
What is Plains Indians?
300
explored for the Netherlands and England searching for the Northwest Passage and claimed land that is now New York.
Who is Henry Hudson?
300
economic policy by which the mother country tried to get as much gold and silver as possible through trade with their colonies
What is mercantilism?
300
tax placed on all papers, such as legal documents, newspapers, and even playing cards
What is the Stamp Act?
300
carries out and enforces laws
What is the Executive Branch?
400
lived in longhouses; iroquois League which was a confederation of 5 tribes established to keep peace among the tribes
What is Eastern Woodland Indians?
400
first to circumnavigate the globe but died before the journey was complete
Who is Magellan?
400
area colonies that had thin and rocky soil and cold climate
What is New England colonies?
400
Fight in Boston when angry colonists surround Hugh White and his fellow soldiers. the soldiers panicked and fired into the crowd killing five people who could not defend themselves
What is the Boston Massacre?
400
Makes laws
What is the Legislative Branch
500
lived in dome-shaped structures between the Rocky and Sierra mountains
What is Great Basin Indians?
500
country that claimed Florida and the southwest region of what is today the United States and called all of this land New Spain
What lands the Spanish claim?
500
brought from England; worked for a certain amount of time, better treatment
Who were indentured servants?
500
turning point of the Revolutionary War
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
500
first ten amendments that were added to the Constitution to protect the individual rights and freedoms not addressed in the original Constitution