1.1 Notes
Native Americans arrived in the Americas in ____ BCE.
What is 30,000 BCE?
A tradition started by the Pilgrims to shows thanks.
What is Thanksgiving?
Many slaves were often freed after ___ years.
What is 7-15 years?
An act that put a tax on mostly printed goods like legal documents, newspapers, pamphlets, playing cards, and dice.
What is the Stamp Act?
Commander-In-Chief of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
A belief that a supernatural force can inhabit inanimate objects.
What is animism?
A set of laws that all Pilgrims had to follow.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
A person who accepts a contract to work for an individual who pays for their voyage to America.
What is an indentured servant?
A law that make it so the colonists could only trade with the British.
What are the Navigation Acts?
A battle that the british won and took place on Breed's Hill.
What is the Battle of Breeds Hill?
Natives tribes that built longhouses to live in permanent settlements.
What are the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian tribes?
The first Europeans to form a settlement in North America who settled Vinland in 1000 CE.
Who are the Vikings?
An act that made it illegal for enslaved people to own firearms, learn to read, form groups, and earn money.
What is the “Negro Act”?
An act that established taxes on imported sugar and molasses.
What is the Sugar Act?
A percentage of American colonists who remained loyal to Britain.
What is 20%?
Native tribes that lived in moveable housing to follow buffalo population.
What are the Blackfoot, Comanche, and Pawnee tribes?
Person who began the first cultivation of tobacco.
Who is John Rolfe?
The first slave ship to arrive in British Colonial America.
What is the White Lion?
An Act that banned the use of colonial paper currency.
What is the The Currency Act?
A pamphlet that argues that the colonies should be able to rebel against the British.
What is "Common Sense"?
Native tribes that lived in present-day states of California, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah.
What are the Hohokam, Anasazi, and Pueblo tribes?
Led British people to try to attempt a settlement in Jamestown.
Who is John Smith?
A farmer who made an army of indentured servants and enslaved people.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
Parliament was divided between two main groups.
Who are the Tories and the Whigs?
A group of people who held control in nearly all cities during the war.
Who are the Loyalists?