Chapter 1: The First Americans
Chapter 2: European Exploration and Settlement
Chapter 3: Life in the Colonies
Chapter 4: Life in the Colonies
Grab Bag
100
Historians use them to study about how American Indians lived so long ago.
What are artifacts?
100
Their original goal was to find a water route to Asia
What is the goal of the first European Explorers?
100
The agreement established by a group of pilgrims to set up their government once they got to the colonies
What is The Mayflower Compact?
100
established in 1215, it limited the power of the king
What is the Magna Carta?
100
Two major mountain ranges in North America that prevented Indians and settlers from moving freely
What are the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains?
200
a people's way of life, including beliefs, customs, food, dwellings, and clothing
What is culture?
200
The widespread exchange of plants, animals, disease, and people that caused a decrease in Indian population
What is the Colombian Exchange?
200
Bobby is paying a debt to Steve by working for him without pay
What is an example of an indentured servant?
200
religious revival of the 1730's instilling ideals of liberty and equality that paved the way for the American Revolution
What is the Great Awakening?
200
this colonial region is most dependent on farming of cash crops for its ecomony
What is the Southern Region?
300
to adjust to a new conditions, like the Eastern Woodland people burning trees to plant corn
What is an adaptation?
300
The group of people who took the place of the American Indian worker for European settlers
Who are the African slaves?
300
this colony offered the most freedom for the people who lived there
What is Pennsylvania?
300
It spelled out what was due to the colonists as English citizens
What is the English Bill of Rights?
300
this colonial region is most dependent on the ocean for its economy
What is New England?
400
They traveled across a land bridge from Asia to the America's during the last Ice Age
How did people first get to the America's?
400
An important economic activity for both the French and Dutch
What is the fur trade?
400
this group of people made up most of the laws in the colonies
What is the elected assembly?
400
the ocean crossing route of slaves
What is middle passage?
400
the Northwest Coast, Great Plains, and Eastern Woodlands are examples
What are examples of Indian culture regions?
500
They believed they were part of a community of living things
What is the Indians view of their environment?
500
How New Amsterdam differed from the other European settlements
What is in its diverse population?
500
the English Colonies were founded by people with various goals, from money making to following their faith
Why did people found the British Colonies?
500
Both schools teach reading and writing
What is a similarity between colonial public school and public schools today?
500
Feeding animals, taking care of many children, and tending fields are daily tasks
What are daily tasks on a farm?
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